Department of Mathematics

  Michaela Moore receives Wu/King Scholarship

[Posted: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 ]
Michaela Moore, through the generosity of Horace Wu and Kate King, has been awarded a $1500 scholarship designed to support graduate education in science and mathematics. The individual must be a K-12 teacher, pursuing a graduate degree and should have at least a 3.25 GPA. Michaela is a math teacher at Westside High School.

 Josh Strese awarded the Hitchcock Foundation Scholarship

[Posted: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 ]
The Hitchcock Foundation annually contributes a $500 scholarship, each to the Biology, Math, Chemistry and Physics Departments. The Math Department awards this scholarship to an incoming freshman who declares math as their major.
For fall 2007, the department congratulates Josh Strese as the Hitchcock Foundation Scholarship recipient. He will continue to receive the scholarship for 4 yrs. by remaining a math major, maintaining a 3.0 GPA or better, and maintaining full-time status.

  Judy Downey wins forth annual Kerrigan Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics

[Posted: Monday, April 28, 2008]
Several years ago UNO alumnus, Mr. Patrick Kerrigan (BA 1973, Math and Physics), set up an annual award in the Mathematics Department to encourage and recogize oustanding teaching performance. Previous honorees have been Professor Valentin Matache, Professor Dora Matache and Professor John Konvalina. This year Instructor Judy Downey is being recognized for outstanding performance in the classroom and for contributions to several extra curricular activities such as Problem of the Week and Math Awareness Month. .

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