Provost Kevin Whitaker announced today the follow promotions which will take effect during the Fall 2020 semester. Congratulations go out to Wei Zhu who was promoted to Full Professor, Shibin Dai who was granted tenure and Yuhui Chen and Tim Ferguson for their promotions to Associate Professor.
Jeremy Cummings Wins the 2020 Randall Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award
Jeremy Cummings was selected as a recipient of the 2020 Randall Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award for his research entitled “Weighted norm inequalities for the maximal operator on variable Lebesgue spaces over spaces of homogeneous type”. Jeremy was nominated for this award by Dr. David Cruz-Uribe. He will be honored at a luncheon later this month.
Involvement Builds Sharniece Holland’s Success
Sharniece Holland is a proven leader who demonstrates driven tenacity toward her goals – academically and professionally. Now a professor at Washington University, she earned her master’s and doctoral degrees at The University of Alabama.
Mathematics Strives to Be a Leader in Diversity and Inclusion
The Department of Mathematics was awarded the 2019 Departmental Diversity Award. Dr. David Cruz-Uribe’s goal is to maintain this diverse atmosphere, eventually creating a graduate program that is made up of 50 percent women and 20 to 25 percent underrepresented minorities.
Department of Mathematics Wins Diversity Award
The Department of Mathematics celebrated an increased number of minority students, welcoming a class of graduate students that included four women and eight black students, well above the national average.
Former graduate student Veny Liu represents UA in Hawaii
2016 Math PhD graduate Veny Liu is now an assistant professor at the University of Hawaii, West Oahu. Dr. Liu recently attended the largest SACNAS ever (5000+ attendees) in Honolulu.
On-campus staff engages residents outside of classroom
Dr. Larry Bowen is a long-time faculty-in-residence that dedicates most of his efforts to the Parker Adams freshman learning community in Harris Hall for arts and sciences students.
UA Launches 2019 United Way Campaign: The Art and Science of Giving
From the College of Arts and Sciences Desktop News September 30, 2019 With a bit of Million Dollar Band fanfare and Big Al philanthropy, The University of Alabama recently launched its 2019 United Way Campaign with a goal of $395,000, a $10,000 increase over last year’s goal. The host for the 2019 campaign is the
2019 United Way “The Art and Science of Giving” Campaign Underway
The 2019 United Way Campaign is now underway, hosted by the College of Arts and Sciences. The kickoff occurred on September 19th with a performance by the Million Dollar Band and the reveal of our chosen campaign theme: “The Art and Science of Giving” by co-chairs David Cruz-Uribe (Math) and Skip Snead (Music). With the
Chuntian Wang’s Paper One of Most Read Math Articles of 2018
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Chuntian Wang whose paper entitled “Crime modeling with truncated Lévy flights for residential burglary models” was one of the most-read mathematics articles of 2018. The paper was published in the Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences Journal, Vol. 28, No. 09, pp. 1857-1880 (2018), and the ranking can be viewed