The Department of Mathematical Sciences is excited to have received a National Science Foundation Special Meeting award to expand the Mathematical Problems in Industry (MPI) workshops. This project is a joint effort involving work between mathematics departments at the University of Delaware, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and Worchester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). The MPI workshops have a long and successful history of bringing together mathematical challenges from industry and cutting edge mathematical techniques from the academe in an intense week-long workshop during the summer. In its evaluation of the project, the panelists comment, "The MPI workshop is very effective and innovative at bridging the gap between academia and industry". UD's Department of Mathematical Sciences is proud of its history of providing a core of active participants to the MPI workshops and being a regular host for these activities. The project also expands a Graduate Mathematical Modeling Summer camp at RPI to prepare students for the workshop. The Principal Investigators at the University of Delaware are Profs. Lou Rossi and Rich Braun. More information about MPI in 2008 can be found at http://www.math.wpi.edu/MPI2008/. The University of Delaware will host MPI in the summer of 2009.