Gokul and Tamas have received a travel grant to present a poster at the 2018 Joint Mathematics Meeting in San Diego, California.
2017
Chuan Chen
Chuan Chen received a Drapeau Summer Research Grant for her project "Accurate, Efficient
and Robust Coarse-Scale Modeling of Fluid Flow in Porous Media using Global Upscaling
and Adaptive Gridding" and an Eagle Wings travel grant to present her work at the
SIAM Conference on Analysis of PDEs in Baltimore
Brianna Bingham, Candice Mitchell, and Amber Sumner (Spring)
Amber's Fellowship from the Mississippi Space Grant Consortium has been renewed. Brianna Bingham and Candice Mitchell also received Fellowships.
Linh Duong (Spring)
Linh won the an award for Outstanding Honors Thesis.
Sarah Long (Spring)
Sarah won the award for best presentation in the "Theoretical/Modeling" category at
the Undergraduate Symposium on Research and Creative Activity.
2016
Elyse Garon
Elyse received a SIAM Travel Award to present her work at the SIAM Life Sciences
Meeting in Boston.
Sarah Long (Spring)
Sarah won a SPUR award for her project, "Life and its Many Layers: Diagonalization of One-Dimensional Differential
Operators with Piecewise Constant Coefficients," as well as an additional prize for
the highest-scoring proposal.
Amber Sumner (Spring)
Amber's Fellowship from the Mississippi Space Grant Consortium has been renewed.
Samuel Dent (Spring)
Samuel won first place in the Integration Bee, held during the annual meeting of the
LA/MS Section of the MAA. He also placed as a runner-up in the Section's Undergraduate
Student Paper Competition.
2015
Anup Lamichhane (Fall)
Anup was chosen for the USM graduate student hall of fame.
Samuel Dent (Spring)
Samuel won second place in the Integration Bee, held during the annual meeting of
the LA/MS Section of the MAA.
Elyse Garon (Spring)
Elyse won an award for Outstanding Honors Thesis.
Brandon Hollingsworth (Spring)
Brandon won second place at the 2015 USM Undergraduate Symposium.
Amber Robertson (Spring)
Amber won first prize in the Master's Paper Competition at the annual meeting of the
LA/MS Section of the MAA. She also won a Graduate Research Fellowship from the Mississippi Space Grant Consortium.
2014
Elyse Garon (Fall)
Elyse won a SPUR award for her project, "Modeling the Diffusion of Heat Energy within Composites of Homogeneous
Materials using the Uncertainty Principle."
Haley Dozier (Spring)
Haley won a SPUR award for her project on Combinatorial Game Theory, in particular on a game called Ideal
Nim, which is related to important problems in computational algebra.
2013
Amber Robertson, Corey Yeates, and Kinsey Zarske (Fall)
Amber, Corey, and Kinsey presented their undergraduate research at the Southeastern
Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics.
Brandi Harbour (Summer)
Brandi won a Lucas Award to support a summer research project on numerical integration
over general 3-dimensional domains. This is important to the solution of partial differential
equations that model phenomena within objects with complicated shapes.
Chasmine Flax (Summer)
Chasmine participated in the Biostatistics Enrichment Summer Training Diversity Program at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. The program was an 8 week
program where underrepresented populations were introduced to biostatistics and work
on a research project with a Columbia University faculty mentor. At the end of the
program, each participant presented their research in a symposium.
2012
Alex Cibotaricu
Alex was the Mississippi Chess Association state champion.
2011
Lorrin Debenport (Spring)
Lorrin presented her Honors Thesis research at the annual meeting of the LA/MS Section of the MAA.
Deanna Leggett (Spring)
Deanna won first prize at the graduate student paper competition at the annual meeting
of the LA/MS Section of the MAA. She had worked on Fraction-free computation of determinants.
2010
Eowyn Cenek (2010 - 2013)
NASA/MS Space Grant Consortium Fellowship
Elisabeth Palchak (Spring)
Elisabeth presented her Honors Thesis research at the annual meeting of the LA/MS Section of the MAA.
Miao Yu (Spring)
Miao won first prize at the graduate student paper competition at the annual meeting
of the LA/MS Section of the MAA.