Congratulations to Professor Tom Trogdon! He has been awarded an NSF CAREER Award. This is one of the most prestigious awards available to a junior faculty member. Recipients are "junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations. Such activities should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research."

Professor Trogdon works in the areas of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Mathematical Physics, Probability. He earned his PhD from the University of Washington in 2013 and then was appointed as an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the Courant Institute — New York University. He joined UCI as an Assistant Professor in July 2016. In 2017, he was awarded the Gábor Szegö Prize.