WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., June 13, 2007 - Associate Professor of Mathematics Satyan Devadoss has been awarded the 2007 Alder Award for Distinguished Teaching by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). The award carries a $1,000 prize and a certificate of recognition from the MAA.

Established in 2003, the Alder award honors a college or university faculty member whose teaching has been extraordinarily successful and whose effectiveness in teaching undergraduate mathematics is shown to have influence beyond his or her classroom.

Devadoss's research is primarily focused on algebraic and geometric topology and computational geometry, the area of mathematics that deal with the nature of space.

His work has appeared in numerous academic journals including Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Annals of Combinatorics, Topology and its Applications, and Computational Geometry.

He is the recipient of two National Science Foundation grants.

At Williams since 2002, he has taught Computational Geometry, Geometric Group Theory, and Knot Theory.

Devadoss received his B.S. from North Central College in 1993 and his Ph.D in mathematics from Johns Hopkins University in 1999.

He has also taught at The Ohio State University and Johns Hopkins University, where he was awarded the William Kelso Morrill Award for Excellence in Teaching.

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