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March



Drs. Billor, Lanius, and van Wyk receive this year’s DMS faculty awards

03/31/2023

Drs. Billor, Lanius, and van Wyk have been selected as the winners of this year’s DMS faculty awards:

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Jacob Pennington, junior in applied math, receives the Andrew C. Connor Memorial Award for 2022-23.

03/28/2023

Jacob Pennington, a junior majoring in applied math, has been selected to receive the Andrew C. Connor Memorial Award for the 2022-23 academic year. This $1,000 scholarship is awarded to the most creative undergraduate student enrolled in math classes.

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COSAM celebrates graduate students and the impact they make in research

Graduate Research

03/28/2023

On March 14, the College of Sciences and Mathematics (COSAM) celebrated the diverse and exciting research happening at the Spring 2023 Graduate Student Research Forum. Five graduate students presented their research and were honored for their research contributions. The Graduate Student Research Forum was formally known as the Interdisciplinary Colloquium, and the active committee of graduate students who organize this event, Prosenjit Ray (chair), Ishveen Kaur, Kaitlyn Murphy, and Nafiul Huda, were pleased to see the increase in attendance as this event switched to a luncheon this Spring semester.

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Billor receives 2023 COSAM Service/Outreach Award.

03/22/2023

Dr. Nedret Billor is the recipient of the 2023 COSAM Service/Outreach Award. This award recognizes her contributions to the service/outreach mission of the department/college over the past several years, notably her industry outreach efforts to provide a data science capstone experience to our MS-DSE students and her service on university senate leadership. Congratulations!

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DMS Promotions

03/21/2023

Department of Mathematics and Statistics happily announces promotions for 2023    Professor Guanqun Cao Junshan Lin   Associate Professor with Tenure Thi Thao Phuong Hoang     Senior Lecturer Thomas Whitt Professor Guanqun Cao Junshan Lin   Associate Professor with Tenure Thi Thao Phuong Hoang     Senior Lecturer Thomas Whitt

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Quantum Leaps – Kosolapoff Award and Lecture features cutting-edge research on capturing carbon dioxide and harvesting water

Evangelos Miliordos, Laura Gagliardi and Doug Goodwin

03/21/2023

Laura Gagliardi, the Richard and Kathy Leventhal Professor at the University of Chicago, is the 2023 recipient of the G. M. Kosolapoff Award and Lecture for the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. She was honored with the award on March 15 and gave a lecture on how quantum chemical calculations assist in the discovery and improvement of materials needed to cover modern needs.

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Baumann (Outstanding Doctoral student, 2022--2023) and Eckert (Harry Merriwether Fellowship, 2023--2024) receive awards from the Graduate School

03/16/2023

Stacie Baumann and Jordan Eckert are this year’s recipients of prestigious awards from the Graduate School.

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