Congratulations to two of our math majors, Gabriel Wheeler and Aryaman Jana, for achieving extraordinary scores on the 2025 Putnam exam. The Putnam exam is a famously difficult undergraduate mathematics competition exam, where earning any score above 0 is generally considered an impressive feat. On the 2025 Putnam exam, 4329… Continue reading…
On the 7th and 8th of November 2025, 68 participants from 21 different institutions from North Carolina and beyond gathered for the 21st Regional Mathematics and Statistics Conference on our campus. Participants heard an exciting array of talks by student researchers, as well as a plenary talk by Dr. Paul… Continue reading…
Chidinma Ezugwu, one of our PhD students, and two PhD students from Education Research Methodology (ERM) recently formed a team, “Campus AI Solutions”, to compete in the UNCG AI Innovation Challenge. Their advisor was Dr. Malistitso Moteane from ERM. This prestigious competition, hosted by the Office of Strategic Initiatives and… Continue reading…
Chidinma Ezugwu, one of our [Mathematics & Statistics Department] PhD students, and two PhD students from Education Research Methodology (ERM) recently formed a team, “Campus AI Solutions”, to compete in the UNCG AI Innovation Challenge. Their advisor was Dr. Malistitso Moteane from ERM. This prestigious competition, hosted by the Office… Continue reading…
Dr. Tom Lewis, Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, has received a new three-year grant from the American Mathematical Society for his project, Narrow-Stencil High-Order Numerical Methods for Approximating Nonlinear Elliptic PDEs. The funding will support travel and supplies to enhance Dr. Lewis’s research, to support his mentoring of graduate students, and to develop undergraduate research opportunities.
congratulations to the 2025 Mathematics & Statistics graduates!
Congratulations to the 2025 Pi Mu Epsilon Inductees! On Tuesday, May 6, 2025, the Mathematics and Statistics Department hosted a dinner at the Imperial Koi restaurant to honor new members of Pi Mu Epsilon, the National Mathematics Honorary Society. The 2025 new inductees are: Caleb Koment, Kaitlyn Pelikan, Mindy Vasquez,… Continue reading…
The UNCG Mathematics and Statistics Department can boast that it is home to internationally acclaimed professors, two of which were recently featured in the College of Arts and Science’s news article, Travel Recollections. The article, highlighted in the Wednesday, April 9th, 2025 email edition of UNCG Campus Weekly, gives us… Continue reading…
Despite their busy schedules, our students often manage to find time in between their classes and research to do something fun. And sometimes that fun means actual rocket science. In 2024, Chidinma Ezugwu, one of our PhD students in Computational Mathematics, began volunteering with NC A&T’s Aggie Rocketry Team, which… Continue reading…
