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Alumna receives an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
San Antonio, Texas, June 5, 2009Angelean Hendrix is the recipient of a prestigious three year National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. A total of 62 GRFs were awarded this year in all of mathematics, applied mathematics, and biostatistics. Angelean was in the first wave of students to receive the NSF funded Undergraduate Mathematics and Biology scholarship at UTSA, where she worked closely with Dr. David Senseman and others in the area of Mathematical Biology. Angelean is now pursuing a Doctorate in Applied Mathematics under the supervision of Dr. James Selgrade at North Carolina State University. Congratulations!
Two mathematics teaching assistants honored: Katrina Garza and Molly Hunter
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Alumnus update
San Antonio, Texas, April 1, 2009Linh Nguyen is the recipient of the L.F. Guseman Prize at Texas A&M University. The award carries a $500 monetary prize. Linh received his Master's degree in our department in 2006 under the supervision of Dr. Dung Le. Linh is also the recipient of the KAUST-IAMCS Fellowship and the Regents Fellowship at Texas A&M.
Faculty Profile: Lawrence Swienciki takes math students on virtual trips with posters he publishes
Alumnus update
San Antonio, Texas, February 4, 2009Toan Nguyen, one of our graduate students in mathematics, will soon defend his Ph.D. thesis at Indiana University this coming summer. Immediately after his defense, he is invited to visit Insititut de Mathématiques à Jussieu, France for a year 2009-2010 and then come back to the US to be a Prager assistant professor in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University, RI. Toan completed his Master's degree, Mathematics concentration, from our graduate program in 2006.
Alumna visits UTSA
San Antonio, Texas, January 21, 2009Dr. Danielle Lyles gave a seminar presentation titled The interplay between noise and oscillations: 2 very different biological examples in the Department of Biology. Dr. Lyles graduated from UTSA with a B.S. in Mathematics with Honors, writing an honors thesis under the supervision of Dr. Mary Lou Zeeman, and went on to Cornell University, where she earned her Ph.D. in Mathematics last year under the supervision of Dr. John Guckenheimer. Currently Dr. Lyles is a postdoc lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California at Davis.
Faculty Close-Up: Visiting Professor Zbigniew Oziewicz is mathematician and Polish freedom fighter
Dr. Salingaros offers free lectures on mathematical architecture
San Antonio, Texas, January 21, 2008Dr. Nikos Salingaros will deliver a series of 12 free lectures entitled Algorithmic Sustainable Design: The Future of Architectural Theory.
