Dr. Ciprian Borcea (left) and Dr. Donald Steven

Dr. Ciprian Borcea, professor of mathematics at Rider University, received the 2006 Dominick A. Iorio Award for Faculty Research during the University’s Founder’s Day ceremony.

Named in honor of the late Dr. Dominick A. Iorio, dean emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Rider, the award recognizes distinguished faculty scholarship and research. Candidates for the award are nominated by the faculty and are reviewed for final selection by a faculty committee. Dr. Donald Steven, provost and vice president for academic affairs, presented the award to Borcea, who also gave the faculty address.

“Research is a necessary dimension of academic life,” said Borcea. “I’m very grateful for the recognition and support given to research at Rider University. Our students can be confident that Rider faculty is always prepared to inspire and guide their progress to discovery.”

Borcea joined Rider University’s mathematics faculty in 1990, and has gained international attention for his research contributions in algebraic geometry, with special regard to mirror symmetry and articulated systems. His work in pure mathematics has implications for important areas of current research in robotics, molecular structures and graph theory.

Borcea has published in many prestigious journals, and has lectured about his research at various universities in the U.S. and abroad, including Paris, Berlin and Kyoto. He was among a select group of mathematicians worldwide in 2004 who participated in an internationally renowned seminar at the mathematics research institute Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach in Oberwolfach, Germany.

He received his Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Bucharest, Romania. From 1979 to 1988 he taught and pursued mathematical research at the National Institute for Scientific and Technical Creation in Bucharest. He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton from 1989 to 1990.

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