Faculty in the News

Students in the News

• Dr. Minerva Cordero has received the 2007 MAA Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics at the MAA Texas Section Spring Meeting held at UT Pan American in April 2007. She has also received a Faculty Development Leave for Fall 2007.
• Dr. Irinel Dragan has joined the editorial board of Antarctica Journal of Mathematics as an Honorary Editor. He has also received the recognition of Professor Emeritus at UT Arlington.
• Dr. Ruth Gornet was an invited plenary speaker at the recent Third Geometric Analysis Conference held in New York City, February 3 - 5, 2006. Other plenary speakers include researchers from Princeton, Stanford, University of Pennsylvania, and Dartmouth College.
• Dr. David Jorgensen has received the 2007 MAA UT Arlington Student Chapter Teacher of the Year Award.
• Dr. Theresa Jorgensen has received the 2006 Honors College Faculty Award in recognition of her outstanding accomplishments in teaching.
• Dr. Christopher Kribs Zaleta has recently been invited to serve as an Associate Editor for Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering
• Dr. Rencang Li has recently been invited to join the Editorial Board as an associate editor for the SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Application.
• Dr. Alex Retakh will be on leave from UT Arlington during the 2007-2008 academic year. He will use the leave to visit the Department of Mathematics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
• Dr. Barbara Shipman has been inducted into the UTA Academy of Distinguished Teachers in recognition of her outstanding accomplishments in teaching. She also received the 2006 MAA UTA Student Chapter Teacher of the Year Award.

• The UT Arlington math undergraduate student team won the Mathematics Jeopardy contest at the Mathfest, the Mathematical Association of America's Summer National Meeting, August 3 - 5, 2007, San Jose, California. The team members were
  • Jennifer Anderson
  • Nina Bjorkman
  • Kristin Creech
  • Alek Malcolm
• The UT Arlington Math undergraduate team competed and won the first place award at the 2007 Texas MAA Section Spring Meeting's Problem Solving Carnival, held in at UT Pan American in April 2007. The team members were
  • Chris Aholt
  • Jennifer Anderson
  • Kristin Creech
  • Alex Malcom
  • Daniel Wennersten
• Eric S. Daniel, a senior in mathematics, received the first place award for his presentation at the Honors Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Symposium on Friday, November 3, 2006. Dr. Barbara Shipman is his Honors project advisor. The title of his presentation is "Matrix Lie Groups and their Impact on Particle Physics."
• The following six students participated in the 2007 Summer Undergraduate Research program (REU) funded by various federal agencies:
  • Kelly Aman, University of Georgia 2007 Summer REU Program. Research Area: Geometric Probability http://www.math.uga.edu/undergraduate/2007REU.html
  • Jennifer R. Anderson, Women and Mathematics: 2007 Program of the Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University Research Area: Algebraic Geometry and Group Actions http://math.ias.edu/pages/activities/programs/women-and mathematics/programs/2007-program.php
  • Nina R. Bjorkman, University of Arizona Summer Program 2007 Research Area: Mathematical Modeling http://math.arizona.edu/~vigre/ASP/2007Info.html
  • Kristin Creech, Texas A&M University: Summer 2007 REU Program Research Area: Mathematical Modeling in Ecology and Physiology http://www.math.tamu.edu/research/undergrad/REU/
  • Alexis Olson, 2007 NASA summer undergraduate research program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Research Area: Aeronautics and space science http://education.jpl.nasa.gov/higher_ed/undergrad.html
  • Gutam Sisodia, 2007 REU Program at University of North Carolina at Greensboro Research Area: Algorithmic Combinatorics on Words http://www.uncg.edu/mat/reu/ (Gutam was a student participant of the REU program at UNC Greensboro last year. This year, he will be a research/teaching assistant for the REU program there.
  All REU programs are highly competitive. Typically a group of 8 to 10 participants were selected for each program from over 100 applicants.
• The following students are recipients of the 2007 - 2008 Math Department Scholarships and Awards:
  • Dunsworth Scholarship: Christopher Aholt, Jennifer Anderson, Kristin Creech
  • Gardner Scholarship: Kelly Aman, Antonio Lopez, Alexis Olson
  • Bernfeld Scholarship: Adina Oprisan
  • Kannan Scholarship: Rachel Baker, John Cerda
  • Outstanding Sophomore Award: Thomas Seaquist, Jessica Brown
  • Outstanding Junior Award: Jennifer Anderson
  • Outstanding Senior Award: Christopher Aholt, Suneeta Bawani, Kristin Creech, Gautam Sisodia
  • Outstanding Graduate Research Award: Florin Badiu
  • Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award: Theresa Busse
  • Outstanding Graduate Student Award: Paul Dawkins
  • Outstanding Math Clinic Tutor Award: Kalyan Ganapathisubramanian