Faculty Highlights

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  Interactive Photo Collection

  Photogrammar, an open-access, web-based tool that allows users to easily navigate and engage photographs taken between 1935-1943, is now housed at UR thanks to the work of Lauren Tilton, assistant professor of rhetoric & communication studies, and Taylor Arnold, assistant professor of statistics. Read more about the program here.

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  Wares Selected as Mentor

  Joanna Wares, associate professor of mathematics, will mentor students Berke Nuri and Jonathan Huang for the project “An Agent-Based Model to Evaluate the Effect of Socioeconomic Status and Demographic Factors on COVID-19 Prevalence and Mortality.” This was awarded through the A&S Research Grants Program.

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  Torres Honored

  Marcella Torres, director of mathematical studies, was recently honored by Lathisms, an organization which showcases the contributions of Latinx and Hispanic mathematicians during Hispanic Heritage Month. Read about her journey to mathematics and accomplishments here.

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  Wares Participates on Panel

  Joanna Wares, Associate Professor of Mathematics, recently participated as a panelist on “Battling Emerging & Re-emerging Epidemics & Designing Mitigating Strategies - COVID-19”. Learn more about the discussion here.

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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.