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Award Winning Graduate Students
A BIG CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL! Thank you for your contributions to the department.
The Charles H. Butler Excellence in Teaching Award
- Lizzy Gorton
- Buddy Stowe
- Nitchada Kamlue
- Olanrewaju Olaniyan
- Darryl Jent
The Department Graduate Service Award
- Rit Chatterjee
- Emma Jent
- Elisha Hall
The Yousef Alavi Doctoral Student Award
- Nitchada Kamlue
The Department Graduate Research Award
- Hala Al Khalid
- Rit Chatterjee
- Emma Jent
- Sawyer Osborn
The Seber Award
- Dyami Hernandez
Three Minute Thesis: Congratulations Ola and Nitchada!
Tuesday, February 18, Olanrewaju Olaniyan and Nitchada Kamlue participated in the Three Minute Thesis Competition.
Ola presented "Estimating Climate Risk in Financial Markets" accessible to the general audience. He also had the distinction of giving the first presentation. Please congratulate Ola on advocating for math as applicable to important problems.
Nitchada presented "What is Productive Struggle?" to argue that productive struggle is important for learning mathematics and other disciplines. She won second prize. Please congratulate Nitchada for her exciting presentation.
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.
WMU Mathematics Education Matters
Offir Romero Castro was selected to serve as a member of the American Association for the Advancements of Science (AAAS) Multidisciplinary Working Group (MWG) on Disability Inclusion and Anti-Ableism in Science, Technology, Mathematics, and Medicine.