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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

Conference on Environmental and Medical Statistics

UMBC in Sri Lanka

The International Conference on Environmental and Medical Statistics took place in January 2020 at the Postgraduate Institute of Science of University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.  This was a joint...

Posted: January 6, 2020, 1:22 PM