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Rachel Ward receives Sloan Fellowship

Published Feb. 16, 2012

[[Rachel Ward has received a 2012 Sloan Research Fellowship.

Ward is an assistant professor of mathematics who serves on the ICES Computational Sciences, Engineering and Mathematics (CSEM) graduate studies committee. The Sloan fellowship will further her work in signal processing (applying harmonic analysis, probability, and dynamical systems), numerical linear algebra, and statistics. Read more.]]

Sloan Research Fellowship nominations are reviewed and candidates selected by a committee of three distinguished scientists in each eligible field. The committees review more than 600 nominations each year to arrive at a final selection of 118 Fellows. Fellows are selected on the basis of their independent research accomplishments, creativity, and potential to become leaders in the scientific community through their contributions to their field.