Welcome to the homepage of the Department of Mathematics & Statistics of the University of Maine. We are located in Neville Hall along with the Departments of Computer Science and English.

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News and Events

• The department is pleased to welcome Assistant Professor Natasha Speer to our ranks. Previously Natasha had been an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University and has a PhD in Mathematics Education from the University of California-Berkeley.
  
  
• Professor Robert Franzosa published a graduate textbook "Introduction to Topology." Colin Adams of Williams College was co-author; the book was published by Pearson Prentice Hall.
  
  
• Assistant Professor David Hiebeler has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. David has also been awarded a prestigious 5-year National Science Foundation Career Award to further his research efforts in mathematical ecology. In part and combined with an earlier grant from the NSF, David is funding a group of undergraduate and graduate students involved in his research. This group comprises of the SPEED Lab, see LINK for more information.
  
  
• Associate Professor Tod Shockey has been elected Vice-President for the international group TODOS-Mathematics for All.
  
  
• Scholarship receipients for the 2008-09 academic year are as follows:
  
  
  • Matthew and Ramona Highlands Scholarship: $4,000 each to undergraduate math majors Timothy Baker and Nicholas Millet.
    
    
  • George and Helen Weston Scholarships: $3,000 each to math majors Philip Kohler-Busch, Sarah Krause, Isaac Michaud, and Joseph Normand.
    
    
  • Theodore and Dorothy Whitehouse Scholarships: $2,000 each to undergraduate math majors Michelle Fields, Erin McDonald, David Nickerson, and Christine Young.
    
    
  • Frederic M. Viles Scholarship: $1,250 to Philip Kohler-Busch.
    
    
• Professor Ramesh Gupta served as Guest Editor for Volume 37 #1 (2008) issue of the Journal Communications in Statistics, a special issue on "Statistics in the Technological Age." The latter was the broad topic of an international conference (December 27-31, 2005) organized by the Institute of Mathematical Sciences of the University of Malaya.
  
  
• Some of our graduate students pursue a PhD after receiving a Masters degree at UMaine. In the recent past:
  
  
  • 2007
    Zachary Smith - University of Tennessee
    
    
  • 2008
    Weston Viles - Boston University
    Cheng Lu Dai - University of Nebraska
    Jeremy Grant - UMaine, Graduate School in Biomedical Services