Excellence in graduate education lies at the heart of the University of Oregon’s mission and is foundational to excellence in scholarship, teaching, and the intellectual richness of the academic community. To help foster this excellence, the Graduate School is initiating a “Year of….” excellence program.
Each year, the Graduate School will select a theme to highlight through the development of resources focused on best practices, speakers, readings, and spotlights on the work of faculty and students. The 2019-2020 excellence program will be the “Year of Mentorship.” To help support this initiative, the Graduate School is bringing back the Faculty-in-Residence program to provide leadership experience for faculty members and invaluable input to the Graduate School community.
The 2019-2020 Faculty-in-Residence:
Shabnam Akhtrai is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon. She received her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of British Columbia in 2008. Her research interests are in Number Theory, particularly Diophantine Analysis and the Geometry of Numbers.
Hank Childs is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Oregon. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Davis in 2006. Hank's research focuses on Scientific Visualization, High-Performance Computing, and the Intersection of the Two.