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Dr. Dulal Bhaumik, PhD 1988, in the news

Dr. Dulal Bhaumik, PhD 1988 Statistics, is in the news as the coauthor of a study of bacterial vaginosis.  The article titled "The Microbiome Composition of a Man's Penis Predicts Incident...

Posted: September 1, 2020, 2:58 PM

Dr. Brad Peercy receives a three-year NSF-NIGMS grant

Dr. Michelle Starz-Gaiano is coPI

Project Title:  Hybrid mathematical modeling for cell fate determination in clustered cell migration – #1953423 Dr. Brad Peercy (Math & Stat) and coPI Michelle Starz-Gaiano (Biology) have...

Posted: August 5, 2020, 9:46 PM

Robert "Rob" Campbell

Robert "Rob" Campbell, who had been an Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics since at least 1997, passed away on July 14, 2020 after a few years of struggle with cancer....

Posted: July 19, 2020, 5:53 PM

Dr. Roman Sznajder, PhD '94

Recognized by a Presidential Research Award at Bowie State

Dr. Roman Sznajder, PhD Applied Mathematics '94, has been recognized by a Presidential Achievement Award for Research and Grants at his home institution, Bowie State University. Dr. Sznajder...

Posted: June 8, 2020, 5:33 PM

Jeremy Rubin awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Off to UPenn for grad school

Jeremy Rubin, BS '20 Statistics, has been awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.  Beginning fall 2020 he will be in the PhD program at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perleman School of...

Posted: May 22, 2020, 2:19 PM

Dr. Kathleen Hoffman receives NSF and CURM grants

Models of the spread of HIV

Dr. Kathleen Hoffman is the recent recipient of two grants: One from NSF to develop models of the spread of HIV, and the other from CURM (Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics) that...

Posted: May 1, 2020, 4:32 PM

Cosmin Petra wins the ARPA-E Grid Optimization

Dr. Cosmin Petra (PhD 2009, Applied Mathematics) who is a a computational mathematician at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, led a team that achieved  first place on all four divisions...

Posted: February 15, 2020, 5:11 PM

Congratulations to Tamara Kolda!

Tamara Kolda  (BS, Applied Mathematics, UMBC 1992 — PhD, Applied Mathematics, UMCP,  1997), distinguished member of the technical staff, informatics and systems assessments, Sandia National...

Posted: February 8, 2020, 6:09 PM