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UMBC statistician selected to work with Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia
Yehenew Kifle, assistant professor of statistics at UMBC, has been awarded a fellowship by the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP). Kifle will travel to Addis Ababa University...
Posted: May 24, 2024, 10:39 AM
CNMS Awards and Recognition Day honors students, faculty, and staff
The College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences (CNMS) held its annual CNMS Awards and Recognition Day on May 10. Nearly 270 UMBC community members and friends attended the event in the...
Posted: May 17, 2024, 3:55 PM
First CNMS GradFest fosters interdepartmental interaction among grads, postdocs
On April 12, more than 150 students, staff, and faculty attended the first College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences (CNMS) GradFest in the University Center Ballroom. The event was the result...
Posted: April 23, 2024, 10:09 AM
UMBC partners with American Statistical Association to organize annual African International Conference on Statistics
The eighth iteration of the African International Conference on Statistics (AIC), scheduled for June 2024 in Tunis, Tunisia, will mark a new era for the conference. Originally championed by Bimal...
Posted: April 17, 2024, 4:22 PM
From thousands to millions to billions to trillions to quadrillions and beyond: Do numbers ever end?
Written by Manil Suri, professor of mathematics, UMBC Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to...
Posted: April 15, 2024, 10:39 AM
Stitching it all together, or how Ephraim Ruttenberg ’25 got hooked on math and crochet
In the back of a classroom, at a desk strewn with a colorful palette of commingled notebooks and skeins of yarn, sits Ephraim Ruttenberg ’25, mathematics. His fingers nimbly and nearly...
Posted: April 11, 2024, 3:18 PM
William Gao, mentee of UMBC statistician Yi Huang, named finalist in Regeneron Talent Search
William Gao, a senior at Centennial High School in Howard County, Maryland, has been selected as one of 40 finalists in the 2024 Regeneron Science Talent Search. Yi Huang, associate professor of...
Posted: March 5, 2024, 2:06 PM
From brine shrimp to blood pressure: New UMBC laboratory course brings math to life
UMBC’s Science Learning Collaboratory buzzes with activity as small groups of students use pipettes to suck brine shrimp out of glass vials, squirt them into petri dishes set over graph paper,...
Posted: December 20, 2023, 2:07 PM
UMBC mathematician Kathleen Hoffman contributes to research on animal decision-making, with robotics applications
Animals must constantly make the choice between using energy to gather information about their environment or to carry out goal-driven tasks. Animals use sensory input, including humans’ five...
Posted: October 26, 2023, 11:06 AM
‘Big Bang of Numbers’ – The Conversation’s book club explores with author Manil Suri how math alone could create the universe
The Conversation U.S. launched its new book club with a bang – talking to mathematician Manil Suri about his nonfiction work “The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Math.”...
Posted: September 18, 2023, 4:14 PM
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