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Dr. Lenssen was awarded one of the Editor’s Awards for Journal of Climate from the American Meteorological Society (AMS), The American Meteorological Society is proud to announce its 2025 Awards and Honors, recognizing outstanding contributions to the weather, water, and climate community. 2025 recipients will be honored at the 105th AMS Annual Meeting in New Orleans, 12–16 January, 2025. The Editor’s Award is given to an individual for outstanding service to the AMS journals, the Glossary of...

Our congratulations to Dr. Rebecca Swanson and Aram Bingham, a Teaching Postdoc at Mines from 2022-2024, who co-authored an article about teaching postdocs that was published by the Mathematical Association of America on their Math Values blog.. https://www.mathvalues.org/masterblog/what-is-a-teaching-postdoc

Colorado School of Mines Winner of the Fundraising/Sustainability Category The AWM Student Chapter at the Colorado School of Mines is recognized for their successful attainment and strategic use of funding. They have secured two regular corporate sponsors to fund their usual chapter activities, along with two internal Colorado School of Mines grants and a substantial third corporate sponsorship to fund their chapter's special 10th year reunion conference. This ambitious two-day conference...

Dr. Nathan Lenssen was recently quoted in a Washing Post article titled: "La Niña is coming. Here’s how it could change the weather." A recent article on Live Science highlighted a paper led by Dr. Lenssen, which was recently published in Geophysical Research Letters. Dr. Lenssen notes, "In this study, we showed that the El Niño-Southern Oscillation can be predicted 2+ years in advance when the forecast is made during a strong El Niño event. This gives scientists and decision makers more...

Dr. Rebecca Swanson is the 2024-2025 University Distinguished Teaching Professor. The title of University Distinguished Teaching Professor is granted selectively to teaching professors and professors of practice who have brought great recognition to Mines through the impact of their teaching, mentoring, and pedagogical innovations. https://www.minesnewsroom.com/news/3-mines-faculty-members-named-university-distinguished-professors

Dr. Rebecca Swanson was awarded the Teaching Faculty Award. Dr. Luis Tenorio was honored for his mentorship of new faculty members in the department. Dr. Michael Mikucki won the Outstanding Faculty Award for the senior class. https://www.minesnewsroom.com/news/mines-faculty-recognized-excellence-teaching-research-and-mentorship-0      

Congratulations to Dr. Debra Carney who will serve as co-principal investigator on the new NSF project, which aims to create a new upper-division college elective that is specifically designed for prospective secondary mathematics teachers. https://www.minesnewsroom.com/news/mines-professor-asks-how-can-we-make-upper-division-math-courses-more-relevant-future-high

Congratulations to Dr. Eileen Martin! She received the prestigious J. Clarence Karcher Award from the Society of Exploration Geophysicists. The SEG Honors and Awards Committee noted: "Dr. Eileen Martin has made unique, significant, and innovative contributions in the use of fiber systems for recording seismic energy across a broad range of applications. Her work on surface wave interferometry is considered pioneering and a standard reference for industrial applications. Martin is credited with...

Congratulations to Dr. Eileen Martin and Dr. Scott Strong! Dr. Martin and Dr. Strong were both recipients of the 2024 Undergraduate Research Scholars Mentor Award! This is a great recognition of their contributions to the undergraduate experience through advising/mentoring student research.

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 and improve the mathematical and computational foundations of data science."

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 insights into the expansion of our undergraduate program, while our Director of Graduate Studies, Dr. Soutir Bandyopadhyay discussed the growth and development of the AMS graduate program. For the remainder of the event,...

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 college students in the United States and Canada. The Putnam Competition takes place annually on the first Saturday of December. The competition consists of two 3-hour sessions, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. During...

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 replicated past events) to analyze predictability when a strong El Niño–Southern Oscillation is in progress. For more information about this feature and the article from Yale Climate Connections, please visit In The News | Colorado...

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 every two years, recognizes an early career researcher in the field of geosciences for distinguished contributions to the field in the three years preceding the award year. Martin, who joined Mines in 2022, holds joint appointments...

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 recognized at the student competitions. Maggie Bailey received the Student Poster Competition Award, Menj Jia received the Student Poster Competition Award, Will Daniels was a finalist in the Student Poster Competition, and Sweta...

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 https://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2023/05/01/nsf-corner-asa-nsf-connection/

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!

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 was recognized by the graduating seniors as the Outstanding Faculty in Applied Mathematics and Statistics!  Mike Nicholas was Awarded the Jenni Fellowship for Institution-Wide Contributions in Teaching Effectiveness and...

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 received praise from several students in response to the question "How do they support student wellbeing and promote positive mental health at Mines?" including: "Professor Westhof cares deeply about his students' wellbeing and he...

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 Dr. Kenneth Wright, Jr.). Ms. Stowe’s T32 research project is entitled “Data-Driven Mathematical Modeling of Sleep Consolidation in Early Childhood.” The project will be supervised by Ms. Stowe’s PhD advisor, Dr. Cecilia Diniz Behn...

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 the question of how Covid affected students via testing, performance reviews, surveys, etc., I opted for an anecdotal approach. While this may not satisfy the conditions for extrapolation, I find it relevant to share my...

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 hatches in oil tanks. A thief hatch is a closable aperture used for taking samples, determining the level of the tank, and protecting the tank from overpressure and excessive vacuum. However, leaving the hatch open for an extended...

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 geosciences every other year for distinguished contributions to the field in the three calendar years preceding the award year. The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) is the leading international organization of...

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 emissions across oil and gas supply chains. For more information, please visit https://www.minesnewsroom.com/news/50m-partnership-ut-austin-csu-tackle-oil-gas-greenhouse-gas-emissions-accounting

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 Castillo, Soraya Terrab, and Justin Garrish, along with their faculty mentor, Jennifer Ryan, published an article about MMCC in SIAM News. Congratulations to the authors, and to all of the students in MMCC who are making a difference in...

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: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-19/to-win-europe-s-gas-contracts-cheniere-lng-aims-to-plug-methane-leaks. Congratulations Professor Hammerling and student researchers!

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 sleep-promoting hormone melatonin to plummet in preschoolers in the hour before bedtime – potentially disrupting slumber long after the light goes out. For more information, please visit...

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, consistent with the AWM mission: “to encourage women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences, and to promote equal opportunity and the equal treatment of women and girls in the mathematical...

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: https://www.seismosoc.org/awards/student-awards/ Additional congratulations goes to AMS professors Dr. Soutir Bandyopadhyay and Dr. Doug Nychka.