Congratulations to Dr. Jasson Vindas, who completed his doctoral dissertation in 2009 under the direction of Prof. Ricardo Estrada in the Mathematics Department. Dr. Vindas's dissertation, entitled Local Behavior of Distributions and Applications, has been honored with the University's annual Distinguished Dissertation Award in Science, Engineering and Technology. Dr. Vindas is currently at a 3-year postdoctoral research position at the University of Ghent in Belgium.