We are pleased to announce that our Math major Muhammad Abdulla was awarded an NSF graduate research fellowship. Muhammad did an internship in his senior year at the National Institute of Health with Dr. Jeffrey Smith studying networks of respiratory neurons, and a research project in his junior year with Dr. Tracy Stepien on a […]
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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 […]
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After graduating from Florida State University in 1970 with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and a minor in physics, Joe Alfred was searching for a graduate program geared toward applied math. The University of Florida stood out: It had a reputation for expertise in math for business, science and engineering, and its Department of Mathematics […]
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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 […]
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Eleven students from the University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences put their problem-solving skills — and their teamwork — to the test in an international math modeling competition. Hosted by the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications (COMAP), the contest challenged students to devise solutions to real-world problems in 96 hours. Two […]
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We are pleased to announce that our Math major Parker Knight was awarded an NSF graduate research fellowship. Parker did a senior honors thesis under Prof. Sara Pollock entitled “Data-driven adaptive penalties for high-dimensional regression”. He will be entering the graduate program in Biostatistics at Harvard in the fall.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Three student teams from the University of Florida received Meritorious Awards after competing in the national math modeling challenge SCUDEM. Held in October and November 2020, SCUDEM challenges teams of high school and undergraduate students to answer one of three problems by creating a mathematics model using differential equations and preparing a 10-minute video presentation […]