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, CAS/BS 鈥�24, shattered a 24-year-old pool record in the 100-meter freestyle in a meet with Catholic University, with a time of 51.56. The Eagles dominated the day, winning 20 of 24 events, and Watts was named Gregorio鈥檚 Trattoria Student-Athlete of the Week.

Congratulations to MS Data Science听student Dhanush Kikkisetti who听has received a travel award to attend and present at the听听in Ann Arbor, MI, from Sept 29-30, 2023. Dhanush is presenting a poster on his work on听"Monitoring coded language emergence and use on extremist social media platforms."

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics听hosted听an听international conference听15-17, 2023.听The XIV-th International Workshop on Intelligent Statistical Quality Control听featured听statistical process control and monitoring, sampling inspection plans, measuring uncertainty, design of experiments, data warehousing, data mining, and explorative data analysis.

Professor Julia Chifman听received a 3-year grant from the National Science Foundation. Julia鈥檚听鈥�Advancing Inference of Phylogenetic Trees and Networks Under Multispecies Coalescent with Hybridization and Gene Flow鈥澨�is funded for 3 years, through September 2026.

Professor Stephen Casey听published a book, the听听鈥�Sampling, Approximation, and Signal Analysis Harmonic Analysis in the Spirit of J. Rowland Higgins鈥�,听in the Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis series of Springer-Birkhauser.

Recent MS Data Science grad听Aarushi Sahejpal听was featured in听American Magazine:听Audacious Changemaker: Data (S)mart.

We congratulate the the听听winners:听Ama Appau,听Collin Coil,听Laura Claire Heinly,听Johnson Odejide,听Josephus Nyumalin, and听Thomas Schupp.

Two MS Data Science students, Chaytanya Kumar (President/Founder of 麻豆原创's听, ASA) and Dhanush Kikkisetti (ASA member), were awarded 麻豆原创 funding to cover a significant portion of听attending the annual Symposium on Data Science and Statistics (SDSS) in St. Louis, Missouri in May. SDSS provides a unique platform for data scientists, computer scientists, and statisticians to confer and exchange ideas, while faculty and industry professionals network and share insights.听Chaytanya and Dhanush encourage all STEM students to seek out conferences like this to attend and gain valuable experiences and insights into the current state of their respective fields.

Professor Michael Robinson received a 3-year $284,000 research grant from the Office of Naval Research for the project "Topological Acoustical Feature Extraction and Exploitation (TAFEE)." He also received a $110,598 grant from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) for the project, 鈥淢odeling and Analytic Capabilities for KBase鈥�

Professor Mary Gray and her late husband, Alfred, were honored by the Association for Women in Mathematics with a named award, the .

Professor John Nolan has been accepted into the Fulbright Specialist Program for a tenure of four years.

Tate Altman won the Graduate Physical Sciences Workshop Award at the Mathias Student Research Conference.

Data science grad students听Haiman Wong,听Elizabeth Marge,听Jingyi Xu and Doudou Shi, working with faculty听Richard Ressler and Maria Barouti, are featured in听.

• The department extends heartfelt congratulations to听Shalini Ramachandra, Jana Cohen, Amanda Muniz, Mingfan Meng听for being听awarded the听2021听Frank Cox Jones Scholarship for Women in Mathematics and听Lydia Rees听for being awarded the听2021听Hanna Miriam Sandler and Bella Sandler Scholarship.
• Jana Cohen听was听awarded $4,500, comprised of $2,500 from the NASA District of Columbia Space Grant Consortium (DCSGC) and $2,000 from the CAS Mathias Research Fellowship and other 麻豆原创 sources.听
• Dr. James Dickens was featured in a .听
• A U-statistic approach to population genetics:听Dr. David Gerard was awarded a 听in the amount of $188,694.00 from the National Science Foundation.

• 麻豆原创 Alum听Misrak Gezmu, PhD,听is a biostatistician at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH). She earned her PhD听in statistics from 麻豆原创 in 1996. She taught at Norfolk State University before starting at NIH. Dr. Gezmu was elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in May 2022.

• How statistics can aid in the fight against misinformation: Dr. Zois Boukouvalas and Dr. Nathalie Japkowicz were featured in a story for a new site on .
• Stephen Casey was awarded a three-year grant for $228,269 from
  the Air Force Office of Scientific Research: Novel techniques for signal analysis and processing, 2020-2023; his book听Sampling: Theory and Applications听听was recently published; and he听won the Distinguished Alumni in the Sciences from .
• Monica Jackson received a $29,824 grant from the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) for 鈥淭he Summer Program In Research And Learning SPIRAL at 麻豆原创鈥� April 2021
• Michael Robinson received a $20,500 grant from Battelle Memorial Institute and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) for his project 鈥淗yperThesis DARPA Modeling Adversarial Activity (MAA)鈥� April 2021
• Zois Boukouvalas was granted $160,000 from Energetics Technology Center, with prime funding from the Office of Naval Research, for his project called "Human Assisted Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing Approaches for Energetics." January 2021
• Zois Boukouvalas was granted $200,000 from Energetics Technology Center, with prime funding from the Office of Naval Research, for his project titled "Data-Driven Multi-model Fusion for the Analysis of Energetic Material Systems." December 2020