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2013/Jan: Ghrist's Coursera Calculus featured in the New York Times

2013/Jan: Ghrist awarded the Chauvenet Prize for mathematical writing.

2012/Dec: Coursera Calculus featured on boingboing and the today show...

2012/Aug: Ghrist taught a mini-course on symmetry groups to 7th-8th grade girls at Penn's GEMS Program

2012/May: Ghrist will be teaching Calculus: Single Variable via Coursera starting January 7, 2013. Sign up for free!

2012/May: Ghrist delivered the Vincent Meyer Lecture at the Technion on Topological Tools for Signals and Sensors. watch the video!

2012/Jan: Expository talk "Music of the Spheres" for Penn's Engaging Minds program at the Beverly Hills Four Seasons: watch the video!

2011/Dec: article about Ghrist's teaching in Penn Engineering News Magazine (pdf, see page 12, or see a short summary in html)

2011/Aug: Ghrist talks on "Putting Topology to Work" at the Young Mathematicians' Conference (link has video of talk / slides)

2011/July: Nice writeup about the F(unny)L(ittle)C(alculus)T(ext) at Penn's Under the Button

2011/Apr: Ghrist gives a public lecture on the Mathematics of Holes at the 2011 International Science Festival in Edinburgh

2011/Mar: President Gutmann mentions Ghrist's involvement in Penn's new Integrated Studies Program for undergraduates.

2011/Mar: Ghrist speaks to high school students @ UTexas' Saturday Morning Math Group on "T/F : True/False : Twitter/Facebook : the Mathematics of Social Circuits" (link is to pdf flier)

2011/Jan: Ghrist speaks on the Beauty and Utility of Mathematics at the British Museum in London

2011/Jan: Ghrist teaches! students! well!

2010/Dec: Ghrist (and his calculus class) appear briefly in a Penn promotional video

2010/Sep: Ghrist interviewed by John D. Cook

2010/Jun: Ghrist gives lecture series at Colorado College [video1][video2][video3]

2010/Apr: Ghrist is the 8th Norbert Wiener lecturer at Tufts University

2009/Nov: Ghrist delivers a brief address to Presdient Gutmann & the University Council on Mathematics & its Applications

2009/ Oct: Ghrist is the innaugural Milton Wing lecturer at Rochester University

2009/Sep: Ghrist delivers a 60 second lecture at Penn on "Why is Mathematics Useful?"

2009/May: Ghrist wins the S. Reid Warren teaching award at Penn for educating engineers

2009/Jan: Ghrist gives a public lecture on sensor networks at the IMA in Minneapolis [video]

2008/Sep: Beautifully-written article on a Paradiso of Mathematics

2008/Jun: Ghrist moves to the University of Pennsylvania to accept the Andrea Mitchell University Professorship in Mathematics and Electrical & Systems Engineering

2007/Dec: de Silva & Ghrist named a "SciAm50" winner by Scientific American magazine for applications of homology to sensor networks

2007/Oct: Ghrist is named a Richard & Margaret Romano Professional Scholar by the University of Illinois

2007/Jun: Ghrist delivers a public lecture at the National University of Singapore

2007/May: Article in Science News on topological sensor networks

February 2007: Ghrist named as a UIUC "University Scholar" for 2006-2008

2007/Jan: Ghrist to speak at the "Current Events Bulletin" at the AMS National Meeting in New Orleans

2006/Dec: An article in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society generates an AMS press release

2006/Nov: Ghrist makes the local newspaper

2006/Oct: Article in Information Week discusses sensor networks, mathematics, and algorithms. If you prefer Italian, check this out...

2006/Oct: Ghrist is on the steering committee for CAESAR: the Center for Autonomous Engineering Systems And Robotics

2006/Oct: Ghrist is the lead PI on the DARPA SToMP project

2006/Sep: Ghrist uses topology. Really!

2006/May: Ghrist to speak at the ICM in Madrid, Spain

2004/May: Ghrist receives a PECASE from President G. W. Bush

2003/Aug: Article in Science on Ghrist's use of topology in robotics