February 23, 2018 - Congratulations to founding ICERM science board member, Juan Meza, who has been appointed as the Division Director for the Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) at the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Jill Pipher, President-elect of the AMS

February 8, 2018 - Jill Pipher, founding director of ICERM, began her term as president-elect of the American Mathematical Society on February 1 - a position which she will hold until she officially becomes president next February.
Inaugural Simons Collaboration Conference
February 6, 2018 - The Simons Collaboration on "Arithmetic Geometry, Number Theory, and Computation", led by ICERM, announced that its first conference will be held this summer at MIT on August 20-24, 2018.
MAA Outstanding Poster Awards

January 24, 2018 - ICERM was pleased that several students from its Summer@ICERM 2017 program won the MAA "Outstanding Poster Award" at the 2018 Joint Mathematics Meeting. Congrats to Erin Bugbee and Claire Savard ("Comparing Songs Using Matrix Pattern Preservation"), Nathaniel Clause and Jose Angel Sanchez Gomez ("A First Approach to a General Theory of Filtration Functions"), and Adam Jaffee ("Vietoris-Rips Complexes of Regular Polygons").
Love of Puzzles

January 16, 2018 - Rich Schwartz, a member of ICERM's Scientific Advisory Board, was featured in Quantamagazine.org describing his love of simple puzzles which can reveal hidden depths to mathematical problems.