Professor Frauke Bleher has been awarded a 3 year NSF grant to support her research project:

"Collaborative Research: FRGMS: Small Root Discriminants in Number Theory and Cryptography"

The research team (each receiving their own individual awards) consists of Frauke plus two computer scientists at UC San Diego (Nadia Heninger and Daniele Micciancio) plus another mathematician at the University of Pennsylvania (Ted Chinburg).  More information can be found in the official NSF award abstract. Congratulations to Frauke!