He is currently Webster Atwell '21 Professor of Mathematics at Williams College. Morgan served at Williams as Mathematics Department Chair and founding director of an NSF undergraduate research project. He is currently (2009-2012) Vice-President of the American Mathematical Society and has launched the AMS Graduate Student Blog, by and for mathematics graduate students. From 2000-2002 he served as Second Vice-President of the Mathematical Association of America. For 1997-98 he held the first Visiting Professorship for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University. He received the Allen High School Distinguished Alumni Award and an honorary doctorate from Cedar Crest College. In 1995 he represented mathematics research at the exhibition for Congress by the Coalition for National Science Funding. In January, 1993, he received an inaugural MAA national award for distinguished teaching. He served on the NSF Math Advisory Committee from 1994-97, and as chair of the Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference in 1997. He spent leave years at Rice, Stanford, and the Institute for Advanced Study. He then taught for ten years at MIT, where he served for three years as Undergraduate Mathematics Chairman, received the Everett Moore Baker Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching, and held the Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Chair. Morgan went to MIT and Princeton, where his thesis advisor, Fred Almgren, introduced him to minimal surfaces. 2009), Calculus Lite 2001, Riemannian Geometry: a Beginner's Guide 1998, The Math Chat Book 2000, based on his live, call-in Math Chat TV show and Math Chat column, Real Analysis 2005, and Real Analysis and Applications 2005. He has six books: Geometric Measure Theory: a Beginner's Guide (4th ed. His proof with colleagues and students of the Double Bubble Connecture is featured at the NSF Discoveries site. Frank Morgan works in minimal surfaces and studies the behavior and structure of minimizers in various dimensions and settings.
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