Holy Cross Faculty Member Receives Fulbright Scholar Award

WORCESTER, Mass. – Cristina Ballantine, assistant professor of mathematics at the College of the Holy Cross, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to conduct research at the University of Muenster/Germany during the 2004-2005 academic year.

She will collaborate with Peter Schneider, of the University of Muenster, to study questions pertaining to number theory (representations of groups) using tools from algebraic topology.

Ballantine is one of approximately 800 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad to some 140 countries for the 2004-2005 academic year through the Fulbright Scholar Program. Established in 1946, the program’s purpose is to build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries.

Recipients of Fulbright Scholar awards are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement and because they have demonstrated extraordinary leadership potential in their fields.

Originally from Romania, Ballantine received her diplom from the University of Stuttgart in Germany and her master’s and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. Prior to joining the Holy Cross faculty in 2002, she taught and conducted research at the University of Wyoming, Bowdoin College and Dartmouth College. Before that, she worked as a software developer in Germany.

The author of several journal articles, Ballantine specializes in number theory, specifically in the theory of representations and automorphic forms.

She resides in Holden, Mass., with her husband and two daughters.