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• Dr. Yueh-Ju Lin has received a 2-year LEAPS grant from the National Science Foundation - Division of Mathematical Sciences: Launching Early-Career Academic Pathways in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (#2418740) totaling $239,598 for her project "Higher order partial differential equations in conformal and Riemannian geometry". This grant will support summer research, PhD and master's students, and travel (2024-2026).
• Dr. Xiaolong Li has received a 3-year Continuing Grant from the National Science Foundation - Division of Mathematical Sciences (#2405257) totaling $219,854 for his project "Sectional Curvature, Isotropic Curvature, and Curvature Operators". This grant will support summer research, PhD students, and travel (2024-2027).
• Sarah Ghazawneh awarded the 2024 Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Physics Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award.
• Dr. Yuan Liu has been granted a University Research/Creative Projects Award (URCA) in the amount of $4500 for July 1, 2024 鈥� June 15, 2025, for her project "Inferring biological dynamics by machine learning algorithms".
• Dr. Mai Dao and Dr. Holger Meyer received funding from PetroPower for the project titled "IMU Data Compression and Anomaly Detection". The award carries $22,565 (11/01/2023-06/30/2024) and enables them to provide advice and support to two PhD students working on the project.
• Dr. Mai Dao (jointly with Dr. Fujian Yan of School of Computing) has received a faculty MURPA award for their project, "Bayesian neural networks for human-robot collaboration". The award is for $7500 (May 1 - August 31, 2024).
• Dr. Robert Fraser (jointly with Dr. Mythili Menon of English and Linguistics) has received a faculty MURPA award for their project, "A resource for English language learners in first-year mathematics courses". The award is for $7500 (May 1 - August 31, 2024).
• Dr. Catherine Searle has been awarded a Research Professorship for Fall 2024 at SLMath. She will be participating in the semester-long program New Frontiers in Curvature, which she is co-organizing with Ailana Fraser, Lan-Hsuan Huang, Richard Schoen, Lu Wang, and Guofang Wei. The award is for a total of $23,560.

• Dr. Xiaolong Li has received a 2-year grant from the National Science Foundation LEAPS - Division of Mathematical Sciences (#2316659) totaling $250,000 for his project "Geometrization with Positive Curvature". This grant will support summer research, PhD students, and travel (2023-2025).
  

• Dr. Yuan Liu has received a research fellowship from ICERM. This research fellowship, totaling $24,000, will enable her to participate in a semester-long research program at Brown University in Spring 2024 titled "Numerical Partial Differential Equations: Analysis, Algorithms and Data Challenges."

• The 2023 萝莉社 Collegiate Mathematics Competition team placed third in this year's competition at Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas. The team consisted of Kubeshavarsha Kalithasan, Kevin Nguyen, and Evan Wing.

• Dr. Mai Dao has received the Kansas NASA EPSCoR Program (KNEP) award for her Partnership Development Grant (PDG) entitled 鈥淏ayesian Calibration for Model-Based Uncertainty Quantification and Reduction in Additive Manufacturing鈥� for May 1. 2023 to April 30, 2024. The award fund ($22,029, with $2,757 from the math department matching fund) will allow her to work with two undergraduates and travel to the NSAS Glenn Research Center with students.

• John Hammond has received the 2023 Academy of Effective Teaching Award.

• Dr. Mai Dao has been granted an Award for Research/Creative projects in Summer (ARCS) in the amount of $3,986.00 for May 1, 2023 - August 31, 2023, for her project "Bayesian Quantile Regresion with Unit-Bounded Responses." 

• Dr. Xiaolong Li has received a 5-year standard grant from the Simons Foundation (#962228) from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2027, totaling $42,000, for his project "Analysis and Geometry on Manifolds". The grant will support Dr. Li's research expenses and travel.

• Dr. Catherine Searle has received a 3-year grant from the National Science Foundation - Division of Mathematical Sciences (#2204324) totaling $261,767 for her project "Curvature and Symmetry". This grant will support summer research, PhD and masters students, and travel (2022-2025). 
• John Hammond won the 2022 University Faculty Awards on Excellence in Accessibility.
• Dr. Yuan Liu has received a 2-year standard grant from the National Science Foundation - Division of Mathematical Sciences: Launching Early-Career Academic Pathways in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (#2213436) totaling $250,000 for her project "Robust and High Order Numerical Simulation for Phase Field Modeling". This grant will support summer research, PhD and masters students, and travel (2022-2024).
• The Mathematics & Statistics Department has launched a new interdisciplinary Data Science master's program: MS in Mathematical Data Science.