Congratulations Professors Jacobel and Yasukawa! As the 2009 Janet Andersen Award winners, Robert Jacobel and Ken Yasukawa will be two of the keynote speakers at this fall's two Undergraduate Research Symposia at Washington University and The University of Chicago. Each of them will also receive a $300 honorarium.
Because we knew Janet Andersen personally and of her special concern for mathematical rigor in biology, we believe that Ken is an excellent candidate in the early phase of the award in her honor. Ken uses mathematics extensively in his research and teaching. He uses differential equations, game theory, matrix algebra, graph theory, as well as extensive multivariate statistics in his own research. His courses in Biometrics and Population Biology receive tremendous praise from his students for the depth of learning they achieve."