MERLOT, the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching, announces that the Mathematical Visualization Toolkit (hereafter, MVT) has won highest honors as an online instructional tool. The Mathematics Editorial Board of MERLOT announced that MVT had won its Classics Award as Editors' Choice Award for Exemplary Online Learning Resource. Fourteen other instructional modules won Classics Awards in subject areas other than mathematics. Of the fifteen modules, MVT received the highest honor of Editor's Choice for being an exemplary model FOR ALL DISCIPLINES. Representatives of the MVT team were invited to showcase their product at MERLOT's international conference in July, receiving complimentary registration and (cash!) awards.

MVT, developed under the auspices of the Department of Applied Mathematics, is a powerful set of tools to graph and illustrate mathematical concepts in calculus and differential equations. Written in Java, it can be downloaded by anybody, for free, from the MVT Website, or it can be run directly from a browser. A small but dedicated group of Java coding Applied Math undergraduates, directed by Prof. James Curry and Instructor Anne Dougherty, develop (and continue to develop) the MVT software.