Department of Mathematics - School of Arts & Sciences

The University of Richmond's mathematics program provides students the opportunity to study the science of number, quantity and space, including applications to other fields.

Calculus Placement TestIncoming first-year students can take our calculus self-placement test to determine which course for them to register for.

Department News

This fall, Mathematics and Mathematical Economics majors can elect to add a new interdisciplinary minor, Data Science and Statistics. The minor in Data Science and Statistics prepares students to address the challenges of collecting, understanding, and presenting structured and unstructured data from a variety of different domains and contexts. We will continue to offer the Data Science and Statistics concentration for Mathematics majors.

Andrew Brady, R'24, a double major in Mathematics and Computer Science, has been awarded a Goldwater Scholarship. The Goldwater Scholarship is a national award for students who are pursuing STEM disciplines and who are likely to go to graduate school in a STEM discipline.

Published: "Count Me In: Community and Belonging in Mathematics", AMS press, 2022. Edited by Della Dumbaugh, Professor of Mathematics, University of Richmond, and Deanna Haunsperger, Professor of Mathematics at Carleton College.

If you are a first year student interested in mathematics, statistics, or data science, and would like to be added to our email list serv, send a request to Kathy Rothert, krothert@richmond.edu.

Faculty Highlights

Wares & UR Colleagues Published
Joanna Wares, associate professor of mathematics and chair of the Department of Mathematics, along with colleagues Kristine Grayson, associate professor of biology, and Angie Hilliker, associate professor of biology, published the article, "R Markdown as a Dynamic Interface for Teaching: Modules from Math and Biology Classrooms," in Mathematical Biosciences.
Torres Published
Marcella Torres, director of mathematical studies, with colleagues from the MultiScale Modeling (MSM) Consortium hosted by the Interagency Modeling and Analysis Group (IMAG), published "Model Integration in Computational Biology: The Role of Reproducibility, Credibility and Utility" in Frontiers in Systems Biology.
Arnold and Tilton Awarded
Taylor Arnold, associate professor of statistics, and Lauren Tilton, assiociate professor of digital humanities, received a $485,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation for their Distant Viewing Toolkit project. Learn more.
Dumbaugh Published
Della Dumbaugh, professor of mathematics, published a new book, Count Me In: Community and Belonging in Mathematics. This groundbreaking work explores the powerful role of communities in mathematics.
Wares Awarded Grant
Joanna Wares, chair of the Department of Math & Computer Science and associate professor of mathematics, was awarded a grant from the Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics. The grant provides funds for research with UR undergraduates and collaborating faculty at Rollins College to use mathematical models to understand opioid crisis interventions. Learn more.
Arnold and Tilton Awarded
Taylor Arnold, associate professor of statistics, and Lauren Tilton, assistant professor of digital humanities, received a National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Advancement grant. Learn more.
Wares Published
Joanna Wares, chair of the Department of Math & Computer Science and associate professor of mathematics, published "Predicting the Impact of Placing an Overdose Prevention Site in Philadelphia: A Mathematical Modeling Approach," in the Harm Reduction Journal.
Dumbaugh Launches Podcast
Della Dumbaugh, professor of mathematics, launched a new podcast, Count Me In, dedicated to broadening the understanding of what it means to be a mathematician through a series of hosted conversations. Listen here.
Dumbaugh Named Editor-in-Chief
Della Dumbaugh, assistant chair and professor of mathematics, was named editor-in-chief of American Mathematical Monthly, a publication of the Mathematical Association of America. Read more here.
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.

Scholarship Repository Readership

The University of Richmond's Scholarship Repository shares faculty publications with a world-wide audience. The map below shows where articles from math and computer science faculty are being read around the globe.

Feature Stories

University of Richmond Sophomore Leah Ghazali Awarded Highly Competitive, Full-Tuition DoD SMART Scholarship

Leah Ghazali has been awarded the SMART award.

UR Math Professor Receives Funding for Opioid Crisis Research

Joanna Wares is receiving grant support for research on mathematically modeling interventions for the opioid crisis.

University of Richmond Professors Awarded $485K Mellon Grant For Open-Source Software to Analyze Visual Culture

Statistics professor Taylor Arnold and digital humanities professor Lauren Tilton have received a $485,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation for their Distant Viewing Toolkit project, an open-source technology for the computational analysis of visual culture.

Four University of Richmond Students - the Most at One Time in the Institution's History - Named Goldwater Scholars

Four University of Richmond students have received Goldwater scholarships, the preeminent undergraduate award in science and math. Four Goldwater Scholars in a single year is the most in UR’s history, and it’s the maximum number of awards Goldwater extends at each competing school.

University of Richmond Professors Awarded Nearly $325K NEH Grant For Open-Source Tool to Collect and Analyze Digital Images

Statistics professor Taylor Arnold and digital humanities professor Lauren Tilton have received a nearly $325K grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support a project to build open-source software for collecting and analyzing digital images.

UR Mathematics Professor Della Dumbaugh Named Editor-in-Chief of American Mathematical Monthly

Della Dumbaugh, assistant chair and professor of mathematics, was named editor-in-chief of American Mathematical Monthly.

UR Math Professors Receive Grant Support for Work Addressing Social Justice Issues and Teaching in the Time of COVID-19

Joanna Wares, associate professor of mathematics, and Marcella Torres, director of mathematical studies, have 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.

University of Richmond Statistics Professor Paul Kvam Receives Fulbright Award to Teach and Research in Hong Kong in 2021

Paul Kvam, a professor of statistics at the University of Richmond, has received a Fulbright Scholar Award for travel to Hong Kong to further his research in nonparametric statistics.

University of Richmond Receives Grant Support For Project Focusing on Women and Information Technology

Kathy Hoke, professor of mathematics and chair of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, is leading a team focused on recruiting and retaining women and other underrepresented students as computer science majors and minors.

University of Richmond Faculty Available to Discuss the Moon Landing; July Marks 50th Anniversary of Historic Event

July will mark the 50th anniversary of the United States' Apollo 11, the first manned mission to land on the moon in July 1969. University of Richmond has scholars who can share their expertise related to this historic anniversary from a variety of perspectives.

UR Math Professor Honored for Extraordinary Teaching

University of Richmond professor of mathematics 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.

UR Professor James Davis Awarded NSF Grant for Conference Series Focused on Intersection of Math and Communication

James Davis, professor of mathematics, has been awarded $25,000 from the National Science Foundation to support a conference series that explores mathematics critical to modern communication.

UR Launches First Website Dedicated to American Mathematics

The University of Richmond has launched AmericanMathematics.org, the first website dedicated to American mathematics.

UR Statistics Professor Taylor Arnold Receives International Fellowship for Research on How Language Changes Over Time

Taylor Arnold, an assistant professor of statistics, has been awarded a more than $36,000 fellowship to participate in the Collegium program at the Lyon Institute for Advanced Study in France.

Media Tip Sheet: University of Richmond Experts on the Moon Landing

University of Richmond has scholars who can share their expertise connected to the Moon Landing.

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Mailing address:
Department of Math & Computer Science
212 Jepson Hall
221 Richmond Way
University of Richmond, VA 23173

Phone: (804) 289-8077
Fax: (804) 287-6444

Department Chair: Joanna Wares
Assistant Department Chair and Computer Science Program Coordinator: Doug Szajda
Mathematics Program Coordinator: Taylor Arnold
Administrative coordinator: Kathy Rothert