Jason Graham (Ph.D. 2012) is first author on the main paper described in this article by the Simons Foundation's magazine Quanta:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-simple-algorithm-that-ants-use-to-bui...
and a link to the actual paper that has Jason as first author:
AMCS students have been successful in competing for NSF funds!
Ken Czuprynski received an NSF EAPSI award in 2016, https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1613777
Nathaniel Richmond received an NSF EAPSI award in 2015, https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1515118
Nathan David Ellingwood received an NSF EAPSI award in 2011, https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1107967
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award in 2016-2017: Hassan Rafique
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award in 2015-2016: Kenneth Czuprynski (Department), Jeffrey Landgren (College), Josiah Benjamin Smalley (College), and Ze Zhao (College).
Gordon Aiello and Nan Hu are among the recipients of the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award in 2014-2015. This award recognizes teaching assistants who have demonstrated outstanding ability as teachers at the University of Iowa. Recent award winners from AMCS include Christine Caples (2013-2014), Julia Walk (2012-2013), Nathan Ellingwood, Roseanne Wolf, Kamuela Yong (2010-2011).
Gregory Ongie won the best student paper award at the International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, April 16-19, 2015, a premier conference on the theory and algorithms for acquisition and post-processing of biomedical images. The title of Greg's paper is Super-resolution MRI Using Finite Rate of Innovation Curves, and the paper is co-authored with his thesis advisor, Professor Mathews Jacob of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Jennifer Verniero received the prestigious 2015 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship award. The award provides funding support for three years, including summer. Jennifer will be working with Professor Gregory Howes on transport of energetic particles in space.