<h2>2010 Paul Simon Outstanding Teacher-Scholar</h2> <p></p> <p></p> <table border="0" width="85%" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="2" align="left"> <tr> <td valign="top" colspan="2"><em><strong>Urszula Ledzewicz, 2010 Paul Simon Outstanding Teacher-Scholar,<br />Distinguished Research Professor of Mathematics and Statistics</strong></em></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>Dr. Urszula Ledzewicz&nbsp; is a well-known expert in the field of optimal control and optimization with applications to biomedicine. She is an author of over 120 refereed publications and two edited volumes in this field.&nbsp; Her recent, most recognized contributions concern applications of optimal control to mathematical models for various cancer treatments.&nbsp; Twelve of her publications on this topic have been co-authored with SIUE graduate students. She has given over 130 presentations of her research at international conferences and invited talks at universities all over the world. Many of these presentations were based on joint work with her graduate students and co-authored by them.&nbsp; Her research has been awarded 13 external grants from funding agencies like NSF or NATO. Graduate students working with Dr. Ledzewicz actively participate in the research under these grants including international collaborative visits in Poland and Italy. Dr. Ledzewicz takes an active part in the professional community by serving as Associate Editor for seven international journals in her field and co-organizing various congresses and conferences in the States and abroad. She was recently the main US organizer of an international workshop in Israel which not only brought together researchers from mathematics, biology and medicine, but also through two external grants enabled the participations of a large number of US graduate students including one from SIUE. At SIUE she is a past recipient of two Research Scholar Awards, the Hoppe Research Professor Award, Distinguished Research Professor Award and currently the William and Margaret Going Endowed Professorship Award in the College of Arts and Sciences.</span></td> <td valign="top" align="center"><img src="/orp/internalgrants/img/Ledzewicz2010_medium.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="264" /></td> </tr> </table> <p></p>