News and Announcements from The Math Department at The University of Rhode Island
Assistant Professor from our Department, Jonathan Chavez-Casillas, collaborates with researchers from the URI Graduate School of Oceanography to help predict and possibly mitigate harmful algal blooms (HAB). HABs pose a growing threat to local and global economies, and human health. The researchers collect sophisticated imaging data from Narragansett Bay and analyze it using applied mathematics […]
Continue reading "Harmful Algal Blooms"We are searching for Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics with a specialty in Environment and Life Sciences. Find full job description here: https://jobs.uri.edu/postings/12493 Apply now! The position starts in Fall 2024.
Continue reading "Tenure Track Position in Applied Mathematics Available!"Per-course, academic year part-time faculty position in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Rhode Island to begin Fall 2022.
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On Friday April 8, from 3-5 PM in Lippitt 205, Erika Fiore will be defending her dissertation Gender-Specific Experiences of Women Undergraduate STEM Students in Online Mathematics Curses During a Pandemic. This is a qualitative study in partial fulfillment of a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, co-supervised by Michael Barrus and Kees de Groot (School of Education). Please […]
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The University of Rhode Island has been awarded its second National Science Foundation grant to recruit, prepare, and support science, computer science, engineering and mathematics majors to become teachers. This Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship program, funded by a 1.2 million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation, was established to address the large number of […]
Continue reading "Robert Noyce STEM Scholarship & Internship Program Now Available"The department has new scholarships, Rhode Graduate scholarships, available to support eligible full time Master’s students. The deadline to apply to the Master program is July 15; March 1 to get a full consideration for a Teaching Assistantship. For more information: contact the graduate director Lubos Thoma, thoma@uri.edu.
Continue reading "New Scholarship Available for Incoming Master’s Students"Based on action taken by the URI Faculty Senate on Nov. 25, the University will temporarily expand access to the second grade option to all students for fall semester 2020 and spring semester 2021. This expanded access to the second grade option will allow all undergraduate and graduate students to retake a fall 2020 or […]
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Ryan Geib (graduating math major) was given the Provost’s Academic Excellence Award for Mathematics 2018-19.
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Nicole Hersey was awarded the Schmitt Award for Excellence in Research from NEERO (New England Educational Research Organization) on April 25, 2019.
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Jean Guillaume was given the Donald Cunnigen Award for Excellence in Graduate Studies on April 23, 2019.
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