News Archive
News Archive
Welcome Tanya Jo Oates as Department Administrator
August 27, 2020
Tanya Jo Oates joined the Department on June 1st as the new Department Administrator replacing Deborah Moore who retired on May 1st. Tanya arrived in the middle of the pandemic without having a chance to meet all of us in person. Nevertheless, she... read more
Math & Stat Faculty recognized in Advance at UNM STEM Shoutouts
August 13, 2020
Advance at UNM is currently conducting a 31 STEM Shoutouts in 31 Days campaign that features our faculty. Congratulations to each of them for being recognized.
Dr. Maria Cristina Pereyra
Dr. Helen Wearing
Dr. Anna Skripka
Information for Fall 2020 Class Delivery Types
July 8, 2020
All the classes and services that are part of the regular Lobo experience will be available in Fall 2020. At present, UNM is planning comprehensive health measures to enable a "hybrid" semester in which some courses are delivered face-to-face, some... read more
Precious Andrew featured in Albuquerque The Magazine
July 2, 2020
Precious Andrew, one of our long time part time instructors, who received her BS and MS from our department, was featured in Albuquerque the Magazine.
https://issuu.com/genalacross/docs/july_2020/152
The article "Heavy Goals" recounts how Precious... read more
Wearing, Li, Schroder, Martinez and Oakley have been promoted
July 1, 2020
Join us in congratulating
Helen Wearing who has been promoted to Full Professor in Biology and Mathematics
Li Li who has been granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor in Statistics
Jacob Schroder who has been given a second mid... read more
Terry Loring promoted to Distinguished Professor
June 24, 2020
Professor Terry Loring has been promoted to the rank of Distinguished Professor at the University of New Mexico, beginning with the 2020-2021 academic year.
Provost Halloway wrote:
You are one of several new Distinguished Professors, selected from a... read more
Congratulations Math and Stats Class of 2020
May 22, 2020
Congratulations to our graduating Undergraduate students, MS students, and PhD students!!!!
Good luck in all your future endeavors!
Convocation Program
Wonderful Slide Show created by Ana Parra
Masks meet Science: Pavel Lushnikov's research featured in the ABQ Journal
May 20, 2020
Masks meet Science: UNM research on the physics of masks in which our own Pavel Lushnikov plays a very important role was featured on May 6, 2020 in the Albuquerque Journal
https://www.abqjournal.com/1440643/masks-meet-science-2.html
From the... read more
A team of Statistics Graduate students among top teams in NFL's bid data bowl
May 11, 2020
Statistics Graduate students Brandon DeFlon, Kellin Rumsey and Zach Stuart teamed up to compete in this year's NFL's big data bowl. UNM's team was one of three finalists behind a Harvard team that was named grand finalist in the competition. They... read more
Graduate student Clarissa Sorensen-Unruh featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education
April 30, 2020
The Provost pointed out to an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education that features one of our Statistics graduate students Clarissa Sorensen-Unruh who has a full time job at CNM as a Chemistry and Statistics instructor. Clarissa just defended... read more
Honors Thesis 2019-2020
April 26, 2020
Congratulations to the undergraduate students who completed and Honors thesis in 2019-2020 and their mentors! We are very proud of you, well done!!
David Vargas, mentored by Prof. Jacob Schroder and Prof. Yi He
Exploring the Folding of DNA Origami... read more
Helen Wearing featured in the New York Times
April 24, 2020
Our own Dr. Helen J. Wearing is featured in this New York Times article today April 24, 2020!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/us/coronavirus-new-mexico.html
Here are some quotes from the article:
“Hundreds of lives were saved because of what... read more
Nina Greenberg wins William P. and Heather W. Weber Teching Excellence Award
April 24, 2020
Our own Nina Greenberg has been selected a recipient of the William P. and Heather W. Weber Teaching Excellence Award for teaching that exemplifies the excellence across the A & S College.
The letter from the Dean says:
This award recognizes the... read more
David Vargas receives an Honorable Mention NSF GRFP
April 16, 2020
David Alan Vargas was awarded an Honorable Mention by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. The NSF accords Honorable Mention to meritorious applicants who do not receive Fellowship awards. This is considered a significant national academic... read more
Famous British mathematician John Horton Conway passed on April 11
April 12, 2020
John Horton Conway famous British Mathematician, the John von Neuman Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, at died on April 11, 2020 of COVID-19. He was active in the theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatorial game... read more
