Department Newsletter

Register to receive our Newsletter via email

To sign up to receive Math News via email instead of hard copy in the mail, click here to register to receive our newsletter via email.

Class Notes

Read about your classmates and submit your own news.

Send us your news

Your classmates and the Nebraska Department of Mathematics would love to know what important things are going on in your life, and we welcome your submissions for the Class Notes section of Math News, as well as for the webpage. Click here to send us your news!

Giving Opportunities

If you would like to contribute to an existing fund or establish a new fund to support a targeted purpose, go to the Department's Give page. Please contact Chair Petronela Radu if you are interested in discussing how you might help the department support a new generation of math students at UNL.

Featured from our Fall 2022 Newsletter

View the full PDF of the Fall 2022 newsletter.

Alex Zupan and his family go sightseeing at Schloss Drachenburg, south of Bonn, Germany

Greetings from Bonn

As part of my faculty development fellowship during the 2022–23 academic year, I have had the wonderful opportunity to spend three months at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics (MPIM) in Bonn, Germany. There are 81 Max Planck Institutes all over Germany (and five more elsewhere), but MPIM is unique in that it’s the only one devoted entirely to pure mathematics. Read More

Portrait of Petronela Radu

View from the Chair: Petronela Radu

This summer I had the honor to start serving as the 16th chair in the history of the Department of Mathematics. I see this new role as an opportunity to give back to a wonderful department that has provided both a home and a solution to a “two-body problem.” My husband, Mikil Foss, and I are fortunate to be one of the many (over a dozen!) couples hired by the department, which has always recognized that many mathematicians love doing homework and discussing mathematics together, a concept that often leads to long-term partnerships. Read More

Five fellows (L-R: Archana Sharma, Walid El-Nahal, Courtney Gibbons, Trenell Mosley and Bandana Kar) in the 50th class cohort take a break at STPF orientation in September 2022. | AAAS/Kat Song

Alumni news: Gibbons selected as AAAS Science and Technology Policy Legislative Branch Fellow

Hamilton College Associate Professor of Mathematics Courtney Gibbons was selected as one of only two Science and Technology Policy Legislative Branch Fellows funded by the AAAS this year. Gibbons earned her Ph.D. in mathematics in 2013 from UNL. She began her new role working with the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in September 2022. Read More

Dr. Lauren Keough

Alumni news: Keough wins MAA Alder Award

The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) named Lauren Keough, an assistant professor of mathematics at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan, as one of three recipients of the Henry L. Alder Award. Keough earned her Ph.D. in 2015 in mathematics from UNL. Read More

data illustration

Data science major debuts in Fall 2023

The Department of Mathematics is pleased to announce the creation of a new Data Science undergraduate major starting in Fall 2023. This new data science program is a collaboration between Mathematics, the Department of Statistics, and the School of Computing, and each discipline will be represented in the program’s core major requirements. This marks the first time that three colleges at the university will share an undergraduate major program. Read More

Read other articles from the 2022 newsletter:

Fall 2021 newsletter

View the full PDF of the Fall 2021 newsletter.

Individual 2021 newsletter articles: