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Featured from our Fall 2021 Newsletter
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Three May graduates will share honor of 100th Ph.D. to a woman in mathematics
Fifty-eight years after the first woman earned a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the honor of the 100th Ph.D. will be shared by three women graduating in May 2021. Juliana Bukoski, Elizabeth Carlson and Su Ji Hong will bring the number of women who have earned the Ph.D. from the Nebraska mathematics department to 100. Prior to the 21st century, only 24 Ph.Ds. in mathematics had been earned by women at UNL. Taran Funk and Robert Huben join Bukoski, Carlson and Hong as May 2021 Ph.D. recipients from mathematics. Read More
Lewis reaches 50th year at UNL
When Jim Lewis first arrived at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln to begin his job as an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics in 1971, Richard Nixon was in his first term as president, the city of Lincoln was about half the size it is today, and the Nebraska football team was busy pursuing its second national championship. At the time, he likely did not envision that 50 years later he would still be teaching students, securing grants, improving mathematics education, and serving the department in myriad ways. Over the last half century, Lewis has laid the foundation for the department to flourish for decades to come. Read More
Alumni news: Roles at Nike beget new experiences
Mathematics and customer service cooperate as a balancing act. Julia Read-LaBelle, in her role as global supply and inventory analyst at Nike, uses her background in mathematics to make sure the products that customers want are available to them when they need them. During her 22 years at Nike, Read-LaBelle has woven together experiences working in areas from the database and warehouse lead to director of sustainable audit, seeing and analyzing the company’s business practices from different vantage points. Now, she decides how to best coordinate inventory supply with Nike’s worldwide supply chain partners, considering environmental sustainability and balancing consumer demand with cost reduction measures. Read More
Alumni news: Husker by luck gives back for 64 years
Alumnus Conrad “Connie” Rennemann Jr. of Dayton, Ohio, has made annual gifts to the College of Arts and Sciences Department of Mathematics at UNL since 1957, starting just six years after completing his studies. He received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Nebraska, majoring in chemistry and mathematics and mathematics and physics respectively. Read More
Jeffries earns NSF Faculty Early Career Award grant
Jack Jeffries, assistant professor of mathematics, will use the $400,000, five-year grant to advance his research in commutative algebra, a field of abstract algebra that, at its heart, is focused on polynomials in many variables. More specifically, he will study singularities — points at which a mathematical object, or geometrical shape, is not “well-behaved” in some way — using differential operators and p-derivations. Read More
STEM CONNECT: Young exploring new avenues at Nebraska
Before joining the STEM CONNECT program, Cleve Young encountered few opportunities to explore programming or research. Now, as a third-year student majoring in mathematics and minoring in statistics, Young said the support offered by faculty at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln made those experiences an easy transition. Read More
Read other articles from the 2021 newsletter:
- Lincoln Journal Star: Lessons learned during pandemic continuing to influence how UNL faculty teach
- From graph theory to gerrymandering, Eureka! summer camp explores math concepts
- Lai wins Don Miller Math Award from Lincoln Rotary Club #14
- AWM Education column: 'Please, Do Tell' by UNL's Yvonne Lai
- Creager, Galvan earn NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
- View from the Chair 2021: Tom Marley
Fall 2020 newsletter
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Individual 2020 newsletter articles:- Teaching in times of a pandemic
- Alumni news: Schneider leading Penn State astronomy since 2011
- Alumni news: Haymaker awarded by MAA for expository paper
- Alumni at Nebraska Global, Ocuvera forge partnership with department
- Traveling talk on gerrymandering merges mathematics, politics
- Summer math camp gets creative with online delivery
- Meet new faculty: Eloísa Grifo and Jack Jeffries
- In memoriam: Thornton leaves legacy of enhancing quality of math education
- In memoriam: Nolting remembered for his generosity
- Victor earns 2020 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
- View from the Chair 2020: Tom Marley
Fall 2019 newsletter
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Individual 2019 newsletter articles:- Alumni News: 'I like being a connector' - Joyce Yen
- STEM CONNECT: Scholarship targets low-income, underrepresented students
- Active-learning strategies proving integral to calculus success
- ‘I teach differently now because of teaching in a prison’
- Afrimath adventure: Homp returns to expand impact of Primarily Math
- Haight gift will fund graduate internships
- Peterson wins 2019 Aulbach Prize
- Mark Walker named AMS Fellow
- Lewis named director of STEM education research initiatives
- Davis reflects upon his adventures in Budapest
- Time abroad brings new perspective to Haar
- Math, CS major finds balance between creativity, logic
Fall 2018 newsletter
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Individual 2018 newsletter articles:- Peterson reaches 50 years at UNL
- 2018 Ph.D. class breaks records with many firsts
- Michelle Homp’s Journal: Afrimath: Connecting continents
- Alumni News: The art of applied analysis
- Mark Walker resolves Betti number conjecture
- Orr returns to native Scotland
- View from the Chair 2018: Reflections on a record-breaking year
- Hermiller joins AMS Fellows
- Judy Walker named AWM Fellow
- Research News: Larios streamlines turbulence models
- Renovations to new Pound Hall add Calculus classrooms
- Student News: Math before dessert
- NSF awards postdoctoral fellowship to math graduate
Fall 2017 newsletter
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Individual 2017 newsletter articles:- Math in the City: Local businesses partner with students to analyze data from a new perspective
- Where bridges, nanomechanics, and Maxwell’s legacy meet
- Roger and Sylvia Wiegand’s Journal: Nepal – Math and Mountains
- Alumni News: Crosswords and collections
- Mark Walker resolves Betti number conjecture
- Lai leads research team for NSF collaborative grant studying pre-service math teachers
- Lewis named AAAS Fellow
- Judy Walker joins AMS Board of Trustees
- Judy Walker named associate vice chancellor for faculty
- Sylvia Wiegand named member of inaugural class of AWM Fellows
- Marley selected for Big Ten Academic Alliance Leadership Development program
Fall 2016 newsletter
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Individual 2016 newsletter articles:- New undergraduate lounge opens
- View from the Chair: Tom Marley
- Study of knot theory brings connections
- Breaking Enigma the first time
- Alumni News: Hard work resides in teaching for Henderson
- Alumni News: Marshall takes road less traveled
- NSF grant to foster active learning in calculus classrooms
- Project aims to boost women in math grad programs
Fall 2015 newsletter
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Individual 2015 newsletter articles:- Traveling MoSAIC Festival celebrates mathematics, art
- View from the Chair: Judy Walker
- Rowlee Lecture and PDF Conference: Exploring continuum mechanics
- Bares delivers inaugural Careers in Math lecture
- NCUWM inspires pursuit of math
- Alumni News: Wright excels in cost analysis
- Research News: Active learning task force
- Pi Mu Epsilon lecture looks at how math improves movies
- Math Day draws record numbers
- Lewis wins AMS Impact Award
- AWM presents Hay Award to Walker