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Students Win Top Honors in Math Modeling Challenge

By using differential equations to address real-world questions, six undergraduate students from the University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences earned top honors at an international math modeling challenge. The SIMIODE Challenge Using Differential Equations Modeling VI (SCUDEM VI), held in the fall of 2021, tasked students with solving “challenge problems” by creating a mathematical […]

Prof. Burt Singer: Gut microbial health could be key to health disparities

A UF infectious disease expert and mathematics professor calls for research into connections between the gut microbiome and health inequities. A new paper published in PNAS and coauthored by UF researcher Burton Singer reviews what is known about how the gut microbiome is influenced by its environment and how it influences its host. The forward-looking perspective […]

Math Major Muhammad Abdulla wins Goldwater Scholarship

We are pleased to announce that one of our majors, Muhammad Abdulla, mentored by Tracy Stepien, has been awarded a Goldwater Scholarship. The Goldwater Scholarship Program, one of the oldest and most prestigious national scholarships in the natural sciences, engineering, and mathematics in the United States, seeks to identify and support college sophomores and juniors who […]

Math Major Teegan Bailey named Emerging Scholar

Teegan Bailey, a second year Mathematics major, mentored by Darryl Chamberlain has been named a UF Emerging Scholar. His research project entitled “Undergraduate’s Covariational Reasoning with Parametric Representations” will investigate how Calculus 1 students are able to apply two different types of covariational reasoning to linear and nonlinear functions. The Emerging Scholars Program encourages early […]

Prof. Pollock receives NSF CAREER award

We are pleased to announce that Assistant Professor Sara Pollock  has received the highly competitive CAREER (Faculty Early Career Development Program) award from the National Science Foundation.  As described on the NSF webpage: “The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support […]

Prof. Calistus Ngonghala recognized as an outstanding international educator

The International Educator Awards are held annually in recognition of outstanding contributions to the internationalization of the University of Florida. Each college selects its college-level International Educators of the Year and nominates individuals for the campus-wide award. We are pleased to announce that Assistant Prof. Calistus N. Ngonghala was recognized as an outstanding international educator […]

Math Major Jack Bryant Giannetti wins AMS Trjitzinsky Awards

The AMS has presented $3,000 awards to each of eight undergraduate students through the Waldemar J. Trjitzinsky Memorial Fund, made possible by a bequest from the estate of Waldemar J., Barbara G., and Juliette Trjitzinsky. Each year the AMS selects several geographically distributed schools, which in turn make one-time awards to beginning mathematical students to […]