Faculty Highlights

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  Wares and Torres Awarded

  Joanna Wares, associate professor of mathematics, and Marcella Torres, director of mathematical studies, received a grant from the Associated Colleges of the South for a project focused on creating mathematics and data science resources to support socially relevant teaching in the time of COVID-19. 

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  Ware and Torres Awarded

  Joanna Ware, associate professor of mathematics, Marcella Torres, director of mathematical studies, and team received an ACS grant for their workshop, “Mathematics and Data Science Resources to Support Socially Relevant Teaching in the Time of COVID-19”.

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  Kvam Awarded

  Paul Kvam, a professor of statistics, has received a Fulbright Scholar Award for travel to Hong Kong to further his research in nonparametric statistics. Kvam plans to visit City University of Hong Kong from Jan. to early May 2021.

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  Dumbaugh invited to give plenary talk

  Della Dumbaugh, Professor of Mathematics and Mathematics Program Coordinator, was invited to give a plenary talk at the Joint Mathematics Meetings of the Mathematical Association of America in Denver, CO. View the video here.

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  Wares Published

  Joanna R. Wares published an article in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Feb. 2020, Vo. 67, Number 2, with her colleague, Jana L. Gervertz, titled Fostering Diversity in Top-Rated Pure Mathematics Graduate Programs.

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  Tilton and Arnold Awarded

  Lauren Tilton and Taylor Arnold in partnership with Harvard Libraries received a $50,000 grant from “Collections As Data," which is funded by the Mellon Foundation. The project uses distant viewing and computer vision to analyze social protest photography.  

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  Arnold Published

  Dr. Taylor Arnold co-authored with Dr. Lauren Tilton (Rhetoric and Communication Studies) and Dr. Annie Berke (Section Editor, LA Review of Books) an article titled “Visual Style in Two Network Era Sitcoms” in the Journal of Cultural Analytics. The article is open access.

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  Hidden Figures Della Dumbaugh, professor of mathematics, can speak about Hidden Figures, which focuses on the African-American women who contributed to the space program.
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  Dumbaugh Awarded

  Dr. Della Dumbaugh has received the John M. Smith Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching from the Mathematical Association of America’s Maryland, D.C., Virginia section.

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  Davis Awarded NSF Grant

  Dr. James Davis has been awarded $25,000 from the National Science Foundation in support of "Finite Fields and their Applications at Simon Fraser University,” a biannual conference being held in Vancouver, Canada that explores finite fields, an area of discrete mathematics.