Graduate student Bacim Alali has won a Wylie Assistant Professorship in Mathematics at the University of Utah. Bacim's dissertation, written under the direction of Prof. Robert Lipton, is entitled Multiscale Analysis of Local Fields in Heterogeneous Media for Local and Nonlocal Continuum Theories. His dissertation research was sponsored by grants from The Boeing Company, the National Science Foundation, and the Air Force Research Laboratory. Congratulations to Bacim Alali!