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Featured from our Fall 2022 Newsletter
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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
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
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
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 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:
- Department honored with women’s award from UNL
- Nearly 500 Nebraska teens participate in Math Day
- NCUWM celebrating 25th annual event in 2023
- Walker named AAAS Fellow
- Tademy's mathematical focus earns DEI Impact Award
- Concussions ice Cathcart's hockey dreams but not path in mathematics
- STEM CONNECT: Farson named NSRI Strategic Deterrence intern
Fall 2021 newsletter
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Individual 2021 newsletter articles:- Three May graduates will share honor of 100th Ph.D. to a woman in mathematics
- Lewis reaches 50th year at UNL
- Alumni news: Roles at Nike beget new experiences
- Alumni news: Husker by luck gives back for 64 years
- Jeffries earns NSF Faculty Early Career Award grant
- STEM CONNECT: Young exploring new avenues at Nebraska
- 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
- Creagar, 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