• Patrick Brosnan of UBC has been awarded the 2009 Coxeter-James prize for research by the Canadian Mathematical Society for his outstanding contributions to mathematical research. The full citation can be found here
• Greg Martin of UBC and Andrew Granville of the Universite de Montreal have won a 2007 Lester R. Ford award from The MAA for an article in the Monthly entitled "Prime Number Races". An experimental version of the citation using ASCIIMathML is here. Please let me know if it works.
• Stuart Boersma of Central Washington University in Ellensburg, WA has won a Trevor Evans Award from the Mathematical Association of America.
• Andy Liu and James Arthur honoured by the CMS for outstanding achievment
• Ellen Gethner, Stan Wagon, and Brian Wick of our section were awarded the prestigious Chauvenet Prize at the recent Joint Meeting in San Diego. The article can be found here.
• Greg Martin of U.B.C. has won a 2002 Lester R. Ford Award from the Mathematical Association of America. The citation is here.

• Certificates for Meritorious Service were presented to:

• Marjorie Enneking of Portland State University in 2006.
• Kenneth A. Ross of The University of Oregon in 2001.
• Donald W. Bushaw, Washington State University in 1998,
• Calvin T. Long, Washington State University in 1991,
• Joseph Hashisaki, Western Washington University (posthumously) in 1987,

• Recipients of the Pacific Northwest Section Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics are:

• James (Jim) Allen Morrow of the University of Washington in 2006.
• Chris Meyer of Pacific Lutheran University in 2005.
• Douglas F. Mooers of Whatcom Community College in 2004.
• Steven A. Bleiler of Portland State University in 2003.
• Andrew Chiang-Fung Liu of University of Alberta in 2002.
• Bruce Lind and Ron VanEnkevort of University of Puget Sound in 2001.
• Ping-Tung Chang of the Matunuska-Susitna branch of the University of Alaska in 1999.
• Brian Wick of University of Alaska - Anchorage in 1997.
• Janet Ray of Seattle Central Community College in 1996.
• Richard Koch of the Universit of thy of Oregon in 1995.
• Millie Johnson of Western Washington University in 1994.
• Jack Robertson of Washington State University in 1993.
• Andre Yandl of Seattle University in 1992.

• Section Members who are Recipients of the national Haimo Teaching Award are:

• Andrew Chang-Fung Liu, University of Alberta, 2004.
• James (Jim) A. Morrow, University of Washington, 2008.

• Section Members who are Recipients of The Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Award for Distinguished Service to Mathematics are:

• Ivan Niven, University of Oregon, 1989.
• Murray S. Klamkin, University of Alberta, 1988.
• Victor Klee, University of Washington, 1977.
• Carl B. Allendoerfer, University of Washington, 1972.

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