Archana Khurana has been selected to receive the Donna B. Hamilton Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in a General Education Course. Awards are based solely on student nominations and are solicited from across campus. From the many nominations received, the selection committee was very impressed by the student experience in Archana’s Math 120 and Stat 100 courses.
The Office of Undergraduate Studies will hold a recognition awards ceremony on May 15, 2024 at 3pm in the Stamp Student Union.
Congratulations to UMD’s 3 Goldwater Scholars this year, all from CMNS:
Over the last 15 years, UMD’s nominations yielded 49 scholarships—No. 2 in the nation behind Stanford.
The official announcement article can be read here:
https://cmns.umd.edu/news-events/news/2024-goldwater-scholars
Congratulations again, Yash, Malcolm and Jerry!
Congratulations to Maria Cameron for her MURI award. MURI are multidisciplinary university research initiative grants that are awarded by the department of defense. Cameron’s grant is sponsored by the office of naval research. Her team includes Balakumar Balachandran (ME) and Miao Yu (ME). This is a project on “disorder-influenced collective dynamics of nonlinear oscillator systems.”
More details about this award are in the official university announcement: Link
The university announced today a big gift to the Math Department. The very generous gift of $27.2M was made by Michael & Eugenia Brin. The gift will endow the Brin Mathematics Research Center, establish an endowed chair, and launch a summer camp for high school students. The official university’s press release can be found at: https://today.umd.edu/umd-receives-27-2m-gift-to-support-mathematics-research-and-outreach
We very excited to report that our Putnam team ranked 8th, honorable mention, among 471 institutions in the 2023 Putnam math competition.
Our team members this year were Vincent Trang, Daniel Yuan, Omar Habibullah, and Andrew Parker.
Vincent Trang ranked 43rd and Daniel Yuan ranked 64th among 3,857 participants.