Seth Figueroa is awarded a 2012 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF).  The NSF-GRF fellowship consisting of an annual stipend of $30,000 for three years is considered to be one of the most prestigious graduate research fellowships in US. The title of Seth Figueroa's NSF-GRF application is “Modeling and Simulating Tissue Growth with Stem Cells”.  This is the first ever NSF-GRF awarded to a graduate student in the Department of Mathematics at UCI.

Professor Edriss Titi will give a Keynote Lecture at the International Union of Theoertical and Applied Mechanics Symposium on July 25, 2012. He will speak on "How much do we know about the problem of global regularity for the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes and Euler equations?"