Jason Metcalfe is a Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor and currently is the Chair of the Department of Mathematics. His research speciality is the analysis of partial differential equations, and in particular, he focuses on waves (and the effect of background geometry, such as black holes, on their behavior). Metcalfe has been at UNC since 2007, and he has received the Board of Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and was twice the recipient of his department’s teaching award, the Goodman-Petersen Award for Excellence in Teaching.