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Dennis Baidoo Awarded the American Statistical Association's Norman Beery Memorial Scholarship
August 19, 2026
Dennis Baidoo, a former graduate student in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New Mexico, has been awarded the American Statistical Association (ASA) Norman Beery Memorial Scholarship.
Baidoo received the scholarship... read more
2026 Honors Theses
April 22, 2026
Four accomplished undergraduate students defended their Honors Theses1 on April 15 and April 22, 2026: Aldo Morelli, Ernesto Morales Carrasco, Chayton Castruita, and Norman Boyd.
Aldo talked about his work "On Bond, Invasion, and First Passage... read more
Former faculty member and Chair Professor Alejandro Aceves named AAAS Fellow
April 22, 2026
Former Professor and Chair of our department, Alejandro Aceves, has been named a 2025 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of 449 scientists selected for this honor. The 2025 class of fellows was announced... read more
SUnMaRC 2026 at Northern Arizona University
April 19, 2026
SUnMaRC 2026
The 2026 edition of The Southwestern Undergraduate Mathematics Research Conference (SUnMaRC) took place on Friday, April 17 through Sunday, April 19 at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ. A team of ten undergraduate students... read more
Workshop on Noncommutative Topology and Quantum Materials
March 27, 2026
Our own Research Distinguished Professor Terry Loring, Postdoc Lara Ismert, and SNL Researcher and Adjunct UNM Research Professor Alex Cerjan, organized an international workshop that was held in Albuquerque on March 11-14, 2026. The conference ... read more
Second Round of the 58th UNM-PNM Statewide High School Mathematics Contest
March 23, 2026
The second and final round of the 2025-2026 UNM-PNM Statewide High School Mathematics Contest was held in the SMLC building at UNM on Saturday, February 14th, 2026. Over 110 students from 27 schools in Albuquerque, Los Alamos, Las Cruces, Lordsburg... read more
