- April 2008 Mr Jinglong Ye received the 2008 College of Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Research Award for his Ph.D. thesis research work. (Thesis advisor: Dr. R. Shivaji).
- March 2008 MSU math team again comes through when it counts. For the second consecutive year, a Mississippi State student team is the winner of a regional
mathematics competition. The four-person group of university upperclassmen took first-place honors in a student challenge that was part of the Mathematical
Association of America, Louisiana/Mississippi Section's 2008 meeting in Lake Charles, La. All mathematics majors, the winning MSU team included seniors
Kenneth H. "Kenny" Brown of Saltillo, Brian L. Schilling of River Ridge, La., and Adam C. Wilkerson of Tupelo, along with junior Ryan M. Causey of Wesson.
Schilling also is double-major in aerospace engineering. They scored 133 out of 150 possible points against some 35 teams from the two-state region. A second
MSU team finished 10th in the annual challenge. That group included seniors Zachary H. "Zach" Bugg of Horn Lake, Wing-Sum "Sam" Au of Starkville and Edward
H. "Jed" Leggett of Purvis, as well as sophomore Noura L. Howell of Cary, N.C. Au and Howell are mathematics majors, while Bugg is double majoring in civil
engineering. Leggett is a physics and philosophy double-major.
- November 2007 The Department of Mathematics and Statistics and the Center for Computational Sciences (CCS) at Mississippi State University (MSU), and the
Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) hosted Seventh Mississippi State - UAB Conference on Differential
Equations and Computational Simulations. The conference was attended by over 130 researchers and had 95 contributed presentations. The 12 principal speakers
at this conference were:
Oscar Bruno, California Institute of Technology
Chris Cosner, University of Miami
Jeff Crandall, University of Virginia
Norman Dancer, University of Sydney, Australia
Joshua Epstein, The Brookings Institution
Lisa Fauci, Tulane University
YanYan Li, Rutgers University
Jean Mawhin, University of Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Charles Nietubicz, Army research Laboratory
Jaime Peraire, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John Rice, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Peter Takac, University of Rostock, Germany
- October 2007 Dr. Ratnasingham Shivaji received the 2007 Oldham Outstanding
Faculty Mentor Award. Via this award the College of Arts & Sciences recognizes a faculty member who has made a special effort to impact the lives and careers
of their students.
- October 2007 Dr. Mohsen Razzaghi was named a Dean's Eminent Scholar of
Mathematics by the College of Arts and Sciences.
- July 1, 2007 Dr. Mohsen Razzaghi was appointed as the new Department Head for
the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
- April 2007 Mr Jaffar Ali received the 2007 College of Arts & Sciences Graduate
Student Research Award for his Ph.D. thesis research work. (Thesis
advisor: Dr. R. Shivaji).
- January 1, 2007 Dr. Corlis Johnson's proposal Scholarships to Attract and Retain Tomorrow's
Scientists, Mathematicians, and Engineers was funded by the National Science
Foundation. The grant was funded for $500,000 and runs through
December 31, 2010.
- October 17, 2006 Dr. Michael
Neumann was named a Dean's Eminent Scholar of Mathematics by the
College of Arts
and Sciences.
- October 16, 2006 Dr. Jane
L. Harvill was elected a member of the International Statistical
Institute.
- July 1, 2006. Dr. Mohsen Razzaghi is appointed as the new Interim
Department Head for the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. He
replaces Dr. Michael
Neumann, who has served the department with distinction as the
interim head since July, 2003.
- May 16, 2006. Dr. Ratnashingham Shivaji is appointed as the new
Director of the Center for Computational Sciences with the College of Arts
and Sciences.
- April, 2006. Amber Russell, a graduating senior, was
recognized with the 2006 College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Student
Award.
- April, 2006. Mrs. Diane Daniels received the National Academic
Advising Association's 2006 Outstanding Advising Certificate of Merit.
- April, 2006. Drs. Grace and Dean Boswell have established
the Spencer B. Murray and Arthur Ollivier Endowment Fund at Mississippi
State University. The fund is established in memory of the two MSU
faculty members (Murray and Ollivier) in the Department of Mathematics
and Statistics. The gift will be used to establish one endowed fund in
the Department of Mathematics and Statistics to bring scholars to campus
to lecture on a branch of mathematics or statistics. In recognition of
the generosity of the Drs. Boswell, the department will call these
lectures "The Murray/Ollivier Annual Lecture."
- April 21, 2006. Ratnashingham Shivaji was recognized by the Shackouls Honors
College at Mississippi State University as the Outstanding Honors
Faculty member. The Honors College also recognized Douglass O. Lamm,
son of Kathyrn Lamm and David Lamm, as the Outstanding Honors
Freshman. Doug is an MSU President's List Scholar, seeking a
double-major in mathematics and insurance, risk management and
financial planning. Brian L. Schilling was one of two selected for
the Outstanding Honors Junior. Brian is an MSU President's List
Scholar and is seeking a double major in aerospace engineering and
mathematics. He is the son of Emile and Patricia Schilling. (See related article.)
- April 12, 2006. Several faculty and one graduate student
were presented a Teacher Recognition Award at the Faculty & Staff
Appreciation Banquet by the National Society of Black Engineers and the IMAGE
program at Mississippi State University. Those receiving the awards
were Ted
Dobson, Hyeona
Lim, Len
Miller, Lorraine Hughes, and Ph.D. graduate student Hathaikarn
Wattanataweekul.
- February 22, 2006. Diane Daniels
was awarded MSU's 2006 Irvin Atly Jefcoat Excellence in Advising
Award. The award includes a $5,000 stipend made possible by alumnus
Henry Hunter. The award annually recognizes faculty and staff members
with a demonstrated commitment to the academic counseling of students.
(See related article.)
- February 16-18, 2006. A team of four undergraduate
mathematics majors - Andy Eadon (Senior), Doug Lamm (freshman),
William Cleveland (Sophomore), and Brian Schilling (Junior) - won
third place in the student competition at the Annual
Spring Meeting of the Louisiana-Mississippi Section of the Mathematical Association of
America.
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