Trustees name three faculty Distinguished Professors

Three faculty members have been named University of Connecticut Board of Trustees Distinguished Professors.

The three – Richard Bass, professor of mathematics; Cheryl Tatano Beck, professor of nursing; and Dipak Dey, professor and head of statistics – were named last week by the trustees because of their “exceptional distinction in scholarship, teaching, and service while at the University of Connecticut.”

Bass, who received the Chancellor’s Research Excellence Award in 2001, has an international reputation for his research in probability theory.

He has used innovative probabilistic techniques to obtain important results in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, mathematical physics, and mathematical finance.

Bass, the editor of Transactions of the American Mathematics Society, one of the foremost mathematics journals in the world, and his co-authors have also solved a number of long-standing open problems in mathematics.

Beck, one of the pre-eminent scholars in qualitative inquiry in nursing research, is a leading nurse researcher on post-partum depression.