Mathematics News
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Longtime UW-Eau Claire staff member wins Board of Regents University Staff Excellence Award
Nicole Owen, an office manager in UW-Eau Claire’s mathematics department, is the recipient of the UW System Board of Regents University Staff Excellence Award for 2022. She will receive the award during a ceremony Sept. 30 at UW-Eau Claire.
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Faculty, staff recognized for excellence at Blugold Breakfast
Eight UW-Eau Claire faculty and staff members were honored at the academic year opening meeting. Each award recipient received a university medallion and $1,500.
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Helping shape what shaped you: Young alum supports two key programs at UW-Eau Claire
Alex Brown, a 2016 actuarial science graduate of UW-Eau Claire, has established a forensics fund and scholarship through the UW-Eau Claire Foundation and provides ongoing financial support to the university's Civil Rights Pilgrimage.
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Graduating Blugold is nontraditional in multiple ways
Those who know John "Sarge" Baker, who graduates from UW-Eau Claire this month with a degree in physics and math education, see much more than a nontraditional student who wears a cloak every day.
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Break from performing helps Blugold reimagine his music and his future
Samuel Stein has been performing on and around the UW-Eau Claire campus since he was a freshman. COVID-19 forced the music composition and mathematics major to pause the live performances, something he says gave him time to reimagine his music and goals.
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UW-Eau Claire to host 10th Annual Sonia Kovalevsky Math Day on March 12
UW-Eau Claire will hold a virtual event for middle and high school students, teachers and sponsors. With a theme of “Breaking Codes and Encryption,” the day will include workshops, problem-solving activities and some friendly mathematics competitions.
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Blugold still swinging for the fences after spinal cord injury changed his life
Zach Caterer was volunteering at a summer youth camp when a water accident left him with a spinal cord injury, changing his life forever. Now at UW-Eau Claire, he's excelling in and out of the classroom as he embraces his "new normal."
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Leaning into leadership and generosity through music and math: Leah Koepke
Settling on a math major was easy for Leah Koepke once her eyes were opened to the myriad ways to apply a mathematics degree out in the world. Staying with her first love in a music minor allowed Koepke to combine her skills while discovering her path.
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Six Blugolds recognized with alumni awards
The outstanding alumni will receive awards from the UW-Eau Claire Alumni Association on Dec. 17 as part of the university’s fall commencement celebration.
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Blugold combines love of English and math during her college studies
Nora Schmidt always loved to write, but lacked the confidence to consider making a career of it. Thanks to the encouraging professors she found at UW-Eau Claire, she's graduating this month with a major in English-creative writing and a minor in math.
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Blugolds' app project wins statewide business competition
A team of UW-Eau Claire students and recent graduates earned top honors in the 2020-21 WiSys APPStart Challenge, a statewide competition that connects mobile app ideas with the expertise and resources needed to launch them.
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Multiple research projects help Blugold gain skills, direction as she looks to future
Avi Devy Mohan transferred to UW-Eau Claire because of its undergraduate research program. Still, the Blugold — now a senior computer science and applied mathematics major — never imagined just how much research would shape her future plans.
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Eight receive excellence awards as academic year opens
UW-Eau Claire Chancellor James Schmidt honored faculty and staff members for their excellence during the Blugold Breakfast and academic year opening meeting.
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UW System Board of Regents approves new bioinformatics major at UW-Eau Claire
Students at UW-Eau Claire soon will have the opportunity to pursue a degree in bioinformatics, a specialty field that is increasingly in demand. The new interdisciplinary major will be offered beginning in fall 2022.
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Blugold math phenom Tyler Gonzales is off to Yale
Mathematics standout Tyler Gonzales had his pick of graduate programs. He is headed to New Haven to begin his Ph.D. pursuits in applied mathematics at storied Yale University, and his unprecedented Blugold research career helped him get there.
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Chemistry major aims to be a university professor after finding passion for teaching
After Sean Parsons graduates this month with a major in chemistry and minors in physics and mathematics, he will begin a Ph.D. program in aerosol chemistry at the University of Southern California. His goal is to someday be a chemistry professor.
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UW-Eau Claire, HPE collaboration a powerful partnership
Students and faculty can engage in more high-performance, data-driven research thanks to a new public-private collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise that dramatically increases the university’s supercomputing processing power.
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New grad takes research to a new level during her years as a Blugold
Caitlin Hedberg took student research to new levels while at UW-Eau Claire. She was part of five research projects with three professors. She'll graduate in May with a major in physics, minors in math and linguistics and a certificate in Mandarin Chinese.
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Honors Thesis Highlight: Tyler Gonzales
Tyler Gonzales will head off to graduate school in applied mathematics at Yale University this fall with a significant, sustained, independent research project already completed—his senior honors thesis.
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Math instructor leaving after 50 years at UW-Eau Claire
A half-century ago, Dr. Tom Wineinger left his private-sector job working on safety analyses for nuclear reactors in Idaho and moved back to the Midwest to teach mathematics at Eau Claire State Teachers College.
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Virtual Civil Rights Pilgrimage set for Jan. 11-15
Refusing to let another CRP trip go the way of 2020 cancellations, students have created an entirely online version of the pilgrimage, free to current Blugolds and affordable to alumni and community members.
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UW-Eau Claire faculty honored for student research mentorship
Three faculty members have been selected by students and alumni for their skill and dedication in mentoring student scholarly projects.
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Philanthropic alumnus quietly gave back to community
UW-Eau Claire was a primary benefactor of Don and Leatrice Mathison's generosity. Since Don first gave his alma mater $100 in 1979, the couple’s accelerated giving rose to more than $1 million.
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Award-winning instructor shares passion for mathematics
The national Council on Undergraduate Research has announced Dr. Carolyn Otto, associate professor of mathematics at UW-Eau Claire, as the winner of its math and computer science division’s 2020 Mid-Career Mentoring Award.