Mathematics
- This year’s recipients of the notable College of Arts and Sciences’ award are especially distinct, the chair of the award committee notesSeventeen exceptional undergraduates are this year’s recipients of the Jacob Van Ek scholarship, one of the
- Recipients, chosen by faculty committee, ‘work tirelessly and most times in the dark’ for diversity and inclusion.
- Support aims to allow scholars to focus solely on research for the ‘long periods often necessary for significant advances in their disciplines’.
- At the start of 2020, David Bortz, like most Coloradans, didn’t know what a coronavirus was. For the last few months, tracking this virus is practically his full-time job.
- Five outstanding colleagues have been named employees of the year by the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder.
- Keegan McNamara, a Boulder mathematics student, intends to give a voice to Boulder’s homeless
- Peter Rock is among scores of students whose tuition costs have been reduced thanks to donors and among the scholarship recipients and scholarship donors who recently shared lunch and conversation.
- Eric Stade is the newest recipient of the American Mathematical Society’s Award for Impact in the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics.
- The University of Colorado Boulder has been chosen by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) to help lead the SEMINAL project—a study funded by the National Science Foundation researching how to best incorporate “active learning” into math classrooms.
- David Zindell (Math ‘84) has joined an increasing number of successful authors in stepping away from traditional publishing — no more contracts, no more agents, no more writing to the dictates of someone else’s bottom line. Today, he's writing for the "pure joy of writing — the best motive of all for writing.”