{"id":12742,"date":"2015-06-24T12:45:05","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T16:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.cos.ucf.edu\/?p=12742"},"modified":"2015-06-24T12:45:05","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T16:45:05","slug":"mathematics-professor-wins-national-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/mathematics-professor-wins-national-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathematics Professor Wins National Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-12755 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/06\/Gurel-Basak-250x265.jpg\" alt=\"Gurel-Basak-250x265\" width=\"147\" height=\"156\" \/>UCF mathematics professor <a href=\"http:\/\/math.cos.ucf.edu\/people\/gurel-basak\/\">Basak Gurel, Ph.D.<\/a>, demonstrates the quality of her research by receiving the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/funding\/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503214\">National Science Foundation CAREER Award<\/a> on May 15.<\/p>\n<p>The Faculty Early Career Development Program, or CAREER, is an NSF-wide activity that offers the most prestigious awards in support of faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through the integration of research and education within the context of the mission of their organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Gurel\u2019s research project on the periodic orbits of Hamiltonian systems and reeb flows also earned her a $71,000 research grant.<\/p>\n<p>This will be Gurel\u2019s second win from the NSF, as she was awarded for her research on the symplectic topology of Hamiltonian systems with infinite orbits in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The NSF also funds about 20 percent of federal support to academic institutions for basic research.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the NSF and the CAREER program, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/index.jsp\">http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/index.jsp<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UCF mathematics professor Basak Gurel, Ph.D., demonstrates the quality of her research by receiving the National Science Foundation CAREER Award on May 15. 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