Department of Mathematics
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo MI 49008-5248 USA
(269) 387-4510
News
Omar Ghalyoun has been appointed to the University of Jordan. He says, "I decided to move to the academic track because it has many advantages, including job security and flexibility that allow me to maintain an advisory role at the National Center for Curriculum Development in addition to my role as head of the mathematics curriculum writing team." He has been working as the Deputy Director for the National Center for Curriculum Development in Jordan since 2020. For the past few months, he has also been acting director of the center and chairman of its executive board. At WMU, Omar was a PhD student of Mari Levin, completing a dissertation titled "The Role of Sampling Variability in Developing K-8 Preservice Teachers’ Informal Inferential Reasoning" in 2019.
Yogesh Mahat has been selected as WMU’s nominee for the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools 2025 Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award in the Mathematics, Physical Sciences, and Engineering category. Yogesh completed his thesis "Einstein Field Equations and the Solutions for Uncharged Black Holes" under the direction of Dr. David Richter this year. Yogesh is currently a PhD student in physics at Howard University.
Dissertation Proposal Defense
January 15, 2025 from 10 to 11 a.m.