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Dr. Debra Carney Awarded NSF-IUSE Grant
Congratulations to Dr. Debra Carney! Dr. Carney has been awarded an NSF-IUSE grant in collaboration with colleagues at San Diego University and Western Kentucky University. The project title is "Making Upper Division Mathematics Courses More Relevant for Future High...
Dr. Samy Wu Fung Awarded 2024 Laney Early Career Alumni Award
Congratulations to Dr. Samy Wu Fung! Dr. Wu Fung was recognized for his significant strides in the field, community, and society at large by Emory University with the 2024 Laney Early Career Alumni Award. "I have no doubt that his independent work will be impactful...
AMS Alumni Event
This year, the AMS department, in collaboration with Mines Foundation, organized the first annual AMS Alumni Event. We extend our sincere gratitude to all attendees and to the Foundation for their support. Department Head Dr. Gus Greivel began the evening by providing...
Putnam Club Among Top Three Teams in Putnam Competition Rocky Mountain Section
Congratulations to Professor John Griesmer and the Putnam Club for being among the top three teams in the 84th Putnam Competition Rocky Mountain Section! The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition® is the preeminent mathematics competition for undergraduate...
Dr. Nathan Lenssen Featured by the Mines Newsroom and Yale Climate Connections Article
Congratulations to Dr. Nathan Lenssen for his feature in the Mines Newsroom and Yale Climate Connections' article 'Will La Niña return this fall? The tea leaves are unusually strong'! Lenssen led a paper that used weather data to create “hindcasts” (forecasts of...
Dr. Eileen Martin wins SIAM Early Career Prize
Congratulations to AMS Assistant Professor Dr. Eileen Martin! Eileen Martin, assistant professor at Colorado School of Mines, has been awarded the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Activity Group on Geosciences Early Career Prize. The prize, given...
AMS GRADUATE STUDENTS AWARDED AT IISA CONFERENCE
The IISA Conference hosted at Colorado School of Mines on June 1-4, 2023 consisted of talks, lecture, panel-discussion sessions, and student poster and paper competitions. Congratulations to AMS graduate students Maggie Bailey, Menj Jia, Will Daniels, and Sweta Rai...
Bandyopadhyay and Nychka Featured in AMSTAT News
Professor Soutir Bandyopadhyay and Professor Doug Nychka were featured in the May edition of AMSTAT News for being awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). For more information about this feature and the project being funded by NSF, please visit...
Professor Holly Eklund recognized at Multicultural Engineering Program Banquet
Congratulations to Professor Holly Eklund for her recognition as the Outstanding Mines Faculty Member by the Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers (SASE) at the Multicultural Engineering Program Banquet!
Carney, Mikucki, and Nicholas Recognized at Faculty Awards Event
Congratulations to Deb Carney, Mike Mikucki, and Mike Nicholas for their recognition at the Faculty Awards Event! Deb Carney is one of three teaching faculty from across campus named to the inaugural class of University Distinguished Teaching Professors! Mike Mikucki...
Professor Christian Westhof Selected as a Champion for Mental Health by the Mines Betsy’s Friends Peer Educators
Congratulations to Professor Christian Westhof for his selection as a Champion for Mental Health, by the Mines Betsy's Friends Peer Educators (a group of students working with Student Wellness Promotion to advance and promote student mental health). Professor Westhof...
AMS Student Awarded Predoctoral Fellowship at the University of Colorado Boulder
Shelby Stowe, a PhD candidate in Computational and Applied Math, has been awarded a Predoctoral Fellowship under the National Institutes of Health T32 Transdisciplinary Training in Sleep and Circadian Rhythms Training Grant at the University of Colorado Boulder (PI...
AMS Student Writes for the Mathematical Association of America’s Blog
AMS Major and current senior here at Colorado School of Mines Sabrina Pawlak has written a post for the Mathematical Association of America's Blog titled "Students Speak: Is it our fault for not measuring up after COVID?" "While there are technical ways to approach...
Rock Blasters Team Wins Spring 2023 Innov8x BPX Challenge
Congratulations to teammates Sweta Rai (Ph.D. Candidate, AMS), Akash Chaurasia (Ph.D. Candidate, Mining), and Prasoon Garg (Post Doc, Civil Engineering) for winning the Spring 2023 Innov8x BPX Challenge! The problem they discussed is related to the use of thief...
Dr. Eileen Martin recognized with the SIAM Activity Group on Geosciences Early Career Prize
Congratulations to AMS Assistant Professor Dr. Eileen Martin! Dr. Martin has been recognized with the SIAM Activity Group on Geosciences Early Career Prize. This prize is awarded to an early career professional in the intersection of applied mathematics and the...
Professor Dorit Hammerling establishes $50 million partnership between Mines, UT-Austin and CSU
Congratulations to AMS Associate Professor Dorit Hammerling! Professor Hammerling has established a major partnership between Mines, UT-Austin and CSU to create a $50 million multidisciplinary research and education initiative to model and assess greenhouse gas...
AMS Students Highlighted in SIAM News, June 2022
Mines Mathematics and Computing Collaborative (MMCC) is a student-led outreach organization that aims to close the STEM exposure gap by offering inspiring, hands-on mathematics and computing workshops for high schoolers in the Denver metro area. Jacqueline del...
Professor Dorit Hammerling’s research highlighted in Bloomberg article
Research produced by Hammerling Research Group as part of the Responsible Gas project led by the Payne Institute for Public Policy at Mines was recently sourced in the following article:...
Dr. Cecilia Diniz Behn co-author on published study
AMS Associate Professor Cecilia Diniz Behn contributed to a paper recently published in the Journal of Pineal Research. Diniz Behn and Mines alum Nora Stack PhD '19 contributed to a new study that showed even slight exposure to light can prompt the critical...
Dr. Deb Carney named AWM 2022 Fellow
Dr. Deb Carney has been named to the 2022 class of Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) Fellows. The AWM Fellows Program recognizes individuals who have demonstrated a sustained commitment to the support and advancement of women in the mathematical sciences,...
AMS Student Wins 2021 SSA Student Presentation Award
AMS graduate student Maggie Bailey received the 2021 Student Presentation Award at the annual Seismological Society of America (SSA) meeting held virtually in April 2021. This award honors excellent poster and oral presentations. More information can be found here:...
AMS student awarded Red Sock best poster award
Congratulations Griffin Hampton and Dr. Cecilia Diniz-Behn! Hampton was awarded a Red Sock best poster award at the recent (virtual) SIAM Dynamical Systems meeting for his poster "Insulin Action Models Applied to Glycerol and Glucose Yield Different Dynamics." Click...
Leiderman wins NSF CAREER Award
Dr. Karin Leiderman was awarded an NSF CAREER grant for her work in blood clotting modeling. Read the full article here.
Diniz-Behn Awarded NSF Research Grant
Dr. Cecilia Diniz-Behn (PI) was awarded a research grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for her work, “Collaborative Research: Nonsmooth maps, coupled oscillators and seasonal variation of sleep and circadian rhythms”
AWM Student Chapter Wins Professional Development Award
At this year’s MathFest in Cincinnati our AWM Student Chapter (SWiM) received the 2019 AWM Student Chapter Award for Professional Development! The purpose of this award is to reward a student chapter for its recruitment and development of students’ professional...
AMS Department Launches New Master’s Degree in Data Science
A new non-thesis master’s degree at Colorado School of Mines will prepare scientists, engineers, economists and more to harness the torrent of large and complex digital data that has become ubiquitous throughout society. Launching this fall, the Data Science graduate...
AMS Collaborators receive “Honorable Mention for Best Paper in Geophysics”
Congrats to Vaughn Ball and Luis Tenorio! Their paper, “Three-term amplitude variation with offset projections” received an “Honorable Mention for Best Paper in Geophysics Award” from the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) for the year 2018. ...
Nicholas Named Outstanding AMS Faculty Member
Congratulations to Dr. Mike Nicholas, who was named Outstanding AMS Faculty Member by the Class of 2019!
AMS Sweeps 2018-2019 Mines Teaching Awards!!
Debra Carney is the 2019 winner of the Mines Teaching Award for Teaching Faculty! Deb contributes to all aspects of academic life at Mines, but especially to our teaching mission. First and foremost, she is a dedicated teacher, who is highly appreciated by her...
AMS Student Awarded for Commitment to Diversity
Two Mines students were recognized this week for their outstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion on campus. Leah Reeder, a junior majoring in Applied Mathematics and Statistics was honored with the Martin Luther King Jr. Recognition Award at a luncheon on Jan....