Renee LaRue, teaching associate professor in the School of Mathematical and Data Sciences, was named the 2025 College Level Mathematics Teacher of the Year during the West Virginia Council of Teachers of Mathematics Conference held at Stonewall Resort.
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Eberly Mathematics Professor Conducting Research at Max Planck Institute for Mathematics
Olgur Celikbas, Associate Professor of Mathematics in the School of Mathematical and Data Sciences at Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, is conducting research during this semester as part of an in-person fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics (MPIM) in Bonn, Germany.
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Dr. Vito D'Orazio Wins Best Paper at the 2024 SBP-BRiMS Conference
School of Mathematical and Data Sciences faculty member, Dr. Vito D'Orazio, wins Best Paper at the SBP-BRims 2024 conference at Carnegie Mellon University.
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West Virginia Mathematician Katherine Johnson Receives Congressional Gold Medal
Katherine Johnson, born in White Sulphur Springs in 1918, became one of NASA’s Hidden Figures – the Black women who performed the mathematical calculations that launched America into space. Johnson and her NASA colleagues were the subject of a book and a film. President Barack Obama awarded her a Medal of Freedom in 2015. Johnson died in 2020 at age 101. Now Congress has honored the space pioneers by awarding them its Gold Medal. Johnson’s daughters, Joylette Hylick and Katherine Moore accepted on her behalf.
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