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Academic Year 2010-2011

Congratulations to Alex James

[Posted: Friday, June 23, 2011]
Congratulations to Alex James on earning a 100% on the Spring 2011 MFAT Exam! This is a national exam which provides students with an assessment of their achievement within a field of study compared with other students locally and nationally. In addition, academic departments use the exam to evaluate their curricula and to measure the progress of their students. MFAT information:

Congratulations to the Spring 2011 Math Graduates

[Posted: Friday, May 27, 2011]
For a complete list of graduates:

Congratulations to the winners of the Kerrigan Research Minigrant Program

[Posted: Thursday, May 12, 2011]
1st Place: Naomi Kochi
2nd Place: David Loscutoff and Daniel Miller
3rd Place: Karen Holly and Jaime Lopez
Kerrigan Minigrant Program:

Congratulations to the UNO Spring 2011 POW Contest Winners

[Posted: Thursday, May 12, 2011]
1st Place: Jami Harper and Vladimer Ufimtsev with 11/12 correct solutions

2nd Place: Andrew Tew with 5/12 correct solutions
POW Contest:

Congratulations to the On-Line High School 2010-2011 POW Contest Winners

[Posted: Thursday, May 12, 2011]
1st Place: Pierce Dageforde of Millard South with 19/20 correct solutions

2nd Place: Yunsik Oh of Mt. Michael Benedictine with 17/20 correct solutions

Wildcard: James Benson of Mt. Michael Benedictine
High School POW Contest:

Mathemtics Awreness Month

[Posted: Wednesday, April 6, 2011]

 

Congratulations to Mary Dennison on receiving the 2011 Kerrigan Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics! The award was presented April 1st during the Mathematics Symposium. Kerrigan Teaching Award:

 

 Future Leaders in Elementary Mathematics Education Award Ceremony

[Posted: Friday, May 13, 2011 ]
The Mathematics Department and the Teacher Education Department held an award ceremony on April 8, 2011, to recognize the outstanding achievement of 39 Elementary Pre-Service Teachers in Undergraduate Mathematics courses. Each awardee earned a minimum 3.5 GPA for the two course sequence MATH 2000 and MATH 2010. The ceremony was well attended with Dr. Paul Clark as guest speaker. Dr. Clark is a former Elementary teacher and current Professor in the College of Education. Special thanks go to Dr. Michael Matthews and Dr. Janice Rech, whose teaching skills and support structure provided the foundation for this large group of highly successful future Elementary Math Teachers. Congratulations to all the awardees! For a complete list of awardees:

 Mathematics Awareness Month

[Posted: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 ]
Since 1991, April has been the month for celebrating mathematics and its applications. This year the theme of the Mathematics Awareness Month (MAM) is Unraveling Complex Systems. The Mathematics department at UNO is celebrating this event through activities including the Mathematics Symposium "MAM at UNO" featuring talks by our students on their mathematics research and a Student Poster Session on April 1, 9:00-12:00 in DSC256. The presenters are Kerrigan research minigrant students, presenting the results of their research in mathematics under the supervision of some of the mathematics faculty. On April 5, 2:30-3:30, DSC116, Dr. Vladimir Itskov from the Mathematics Department, University of Nebraska Lincoln, will give a talk accessible to all undergraduates and graduates with an interest in mathematics, entitled “Algebraic approaches to the network encoding problem”. On April 15, 2:30-3:30, DSC116, Dr. Alan Veliz-Cuba from the Department of Mathematics,University of Nebraska Lincoln will give a talk accessible to both undergraduates and graduates, entitled "The dynamics of conjunctive Boolean networks". For complete details:

 "The geeks strike back!"

[Posted: Friday, February 18, 2011 ]
According to CareerCast.com 3 of the top 5 jobs for 2011 are Math related; Mathematician, Actuary, and Statistician. The other two top jobs are Computer Science and Math related. For complete details:

 Pat Kerrigan talks to Andrzej Roslanowski's Calculus I class on September 7

[Posted: Wednesday, September 15, 2010]
The following are comments made during a visit I made to speak to Dr. Andrzej Roslanowski's two sections of Calculus I. My primary reason for talking to the students was to remind them that no one believes that Calculus is easy (in fact, for most of us it is a difficult subject) but that if the course is approached correctly, by getting good study habits in place, the results can be very satisfying. For the complete transcripts:

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