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Sep 13, 2022

College Honors 2020 Alumni and Student Awardees

The College of Sciences recognized three alumni and one student for their outstanding achievements at its annual awards ceremony. 

Sep 13, 2022

Bidirectional Contact Tracing Could Have a Dramatic Impact on COVID-19 Infection Numbers

Contact tracing is an important component of mitigating the spread of infections like COVID-19. Alun Lloyd, Drexel Professor of Mathematics at NC State, works with computational models to help us understand how diseases spread. Lloyd recently co-authored a study that found bidirectional contact tracing is twice as effective as forward tracing, the contact tracing method currently… 

Sep 13, 2022

Sciences Faculty, Staff, Students Receive 2020-21 University Honors

Nine members of the College of Sciences community were recently recognized with 2020-21 NC State teaching, diversity, extension and excellence awards. 

May 19, 2022

William Anderson has been awarded the 2022 SIAM Student Paper Prize

Congratulations to Mathematics PhD student, William Anderson, who has been awarded the 2022 SIAM Student Paper Prize. This prize is awarded annually to only 3 students worldwide.  William works with… 

May 17, 2022

GAMMA: Girls in Applied Math, Modeling, and Analysis

PDF Flyer for more information. RSVP: Space is limited! Register by Friday, May 20, at: www.sciencehouse.ncsu.edu Grade Level: High School Girls Learn aboutWhat Do Mathematicians Do? What is Mathematical Research?… 

Apr 19, 2022

NC State Mathematics/Statistics REU students awarded fellowships

Congratulations to 4 undergraduate students from the NC State University Directed Research for Undergraduate Math and Statistics (DRUMS) summer 2021 REU program for being awarded fellowships! John Hood (Bowdoin College) won… 

Mar 17, 2022

NC State’s Financial Math program continues recognition as global leader

The Master of Science in Financial Mathematics (MFM) program at NC State was recently awarded the sixth position in the 2022 Risk.net annual rankings of the top 25 quantitative financial master’s… 

Mar 10, 2022

Mathematics Research Competition!

AWM is happy to announce that our lightning-talk research competition is coming back! On Saturday March 26th from 9:30-2:00* in SAS 1102 we will have an opportunity for you to share your research with a non-specialist audience.… 

Mar 7, 2022

Etienne Phillips, Everett Meekins, and Jarod Schneider win top 3 in Putnam

The William Lowell Putnam Competition is a preeminent mathematics competition for undergraduate college students in the United States and Canada.  Among the NCSU contestants, the top three places go to… 

Jan 20, 2022

NC State graduated the most PhDs in mathematics in the US from 2010-2019

NC State graduated the most PhD students in mathematics among all universities in the United States from 2010-2019. An article published in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society January 2022…