Students’ Problem-Solving Recognized in International Modeling Contest

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 […]

Math major Parker Knight awarded NSF graduate fellowship

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.

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 […]

Students awarded at national modeling challenge

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 […]

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 […]

Masks, Social Distancing and the Coronavirus

Assistant Professor of Mathematical Biology Calistus Ngonghala is the lead author of a new study published in the journal Mathematical Biosciences that studied the efficacy of non-pharmaceutical interventions in curtailing the virus. The researchers found that widespread use of highly effective surgical facemasks in the public could wipe out the virus, while the use of […]

PhD Alumnus William Severa’s research highlighted

Dr. William Severa‘s research team at Sandia National Laboratories was featured in an article entitled “One Step Closer to Deep Learning on Neuromorphic Hardware” in The Next Platform. Dr. Severa is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff in the Data-driven and Neural Computing group at Sandia and is lead mathematician on the profiled project. […]

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