News & Achievements
Professor Amit Savkar receives Provost Award for Excellence in Community-Engaged Scholarship
Professor Amit Savkar has been selected as this year’s recipient of the Provost Awards for Excellence in Community-Engaged Scholarship in the Distinguished Faculty Teaching category. This award is given to faculty who have demonstrated significant individual contributions to the local community, state, nation, or world through distinguished University community-engaged scholarship.
[Read More]Professor Guozhen Lu elected an Honorary Member of UConn Phi Beta Kappa
Guozhen Lu has been elected to the UConn Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa as Honorary Member. More information is at: https://pbk.uconn.edu/2026/04/08/uconn-chapter-elects-honorary-member-to-pbk/
[Read More]Associate Professor Ling Xiao named Makuch Faculty Fellow 2026-2027
Ling Xiao has been named the new Makuch Faculty Fellow (January 2026-December 2027). This fellowship was instituted through a generous donation by UConn Math alum Robert Makuch.
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Distinguished Lecture on April 9th: Topology from Algebraic Geometry by Ravi Vakil (Stanford)
UConn Math Department hosts Eastern Regional MATHCOUNTS competition
The UConn Math Department hosted our fourth-annual Eastern Connecticut MATHCOUNTS competition on Saturday, February 21, 2026. This is an official part of the National MATHCOUNTS competition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathcounts). We have hosted the Eastern Connecticut Regional competition for several years now, and it has been supported by the Department of Mathematics and UConn’s CLAS. This year we […]
[Read More]Álvaro Lozano-Robledo to deliver AMS Einstein Public Lecture in Mathematics
We are excited to announce that Professor Álvaro Lozano-Robledo will be delivering the American Mathematical Society’s Einstein Public Lecture in Mathematics at the Spring Central Sectional Meeting of the AMS, to be held April 17-18, 2027, at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
[Read More]Math Department sponsors Connecticut Science Bowl Competition
UConn Math sponsored the Connecticut Science Bowl Competition held on Saturday, February 28, 2026 at Monteith and at Susan H Herbst Hall at the Storrs UConn campus. More than 200 students from across the State of Connecticut gathered to compete in a quiz bowl style competition. Topics included Math, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy, Earth Science, […]
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