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K. L. Kirkpatrick

Blackwell Scholar in Mathematics --> Professor of Mathematics and Physics

University of illinois, research interests: quantum and statistical mechanics, condensed and dark matter, foundations of neuroscience and computer science., other interests.

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PhD in Statistics Admission

Applicants must have earned at least a bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited college in the United States or a comparable degree from a recognized institution of higher learning abroad. A minimum of 4 years of post-secondary education is required for admission to graduate programs. Applicants that have obtained a 3 year bachelor's degree must also obtain either a 1-2 year post-graduate diploma or a master's degree to be evaluated as having a comparable bachelor's degree. 

The minimum grade point average for admission to the Department of Statistics is 3.0 on a 4.0 scale or comparable for international applicants. The GPA for admission only considers the applicant's previous 60 semester hours of undergraduate study or your entire accumulative graduate level course work.  If your undergraduate study is longer than 4 years, additional semesters may be used to calculate the admission GPA.

Applicants enrolled in the final year of a bachelor's degree from an accredited college in the United States or a comparable degree program from a recognized institution of higher learning abroad, and who meet the GPA requirements stated above will be admitted conditionally pending receipt of final academic credentials showing the undergraduate degree as conferred.

International applicants must meet  minimum requirements  based on their country of origin. 

The University of Illinois Graduate College uses the ‘Slate’ online application system. To use this system, follow the directions at  www.grad.illinois.edu/admissions/apply

There is a nonrefundable application fee that varies depending on your citizenship status and/or visa status. Payment may be made online via credit card. For application fee amounts and determination of your fee classification, please see:  http://www.grad.illinois.edu/admissions/instructions/02b

APPLICATION DEADLINES:

PhD Admission – December 15 **We admit new PhD students for Fall terms only** 

PROGRAM PREREQUISITES

If the applicant does not meet the undergraduate course work requirements, he or she may complete courses to remove the deficiencies (e.g., Statistics 410 or Mathematics 444 for PhD students) after entering the graduate program. Prerequisite course credits do not count toward the Department of Statistics' credit hour requirements for graduation.

LIMITED STATUS ADMISSION

In order to be admitted without deficiencies, an applicant should have earned, at a minimum, credit for the prerequisite course work described above. Prerequisite courses listed above in parentheses are the University of Illinois courses that fulfill these requirements.

A student may be admitted on limited status if his or her pre-admission grade-point average (GPA), which is based on the last 60 semester hours of undergraduate work, is below the Graduate College minimum of 3.0 (A=4.0), or if the academic record shows other deficiencies or nontraditional academic qualifications. After the student has satisfied the conditions imposed, his or her major department will request that the Graduate College change the student from limited status to full graduate standing. No advanced degree will be awarded to a student who has not qualified for, and been granted, full graduate standing.

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Computational science & engineering concentration.

for the graduate concentration in Computational Science & Engineering

The heart of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) is to develop innovative ways of solving engineering and scientific problems using computation as a tool. This new form of science compresses the development process in engineering and engenders knowledge discovery with a new paradigm in many areas because it enables “virtual experiments” and helps focus physical experiments to reduce or eliminate trial-end-error laboratory-based approaches. Further, it teaches students to solve complex problems with prevailing computer technology.

The CSE graduate concentration is designed to provide graduate students at both the Masters and PhD levels with a solid base in problem-solving using computation as a major tool for modeling complicated problems in science and engineering. This concentration is not part of the MEng in Engineering degree program.

This concentration requires students to complete 16 graduate credit hours. Courses taken toward this concentration will count towards the student’s graduate degree for students enrolled in:

Actuarial Science, MS

Aerospace Engineering, MS | Aerospace Engineering, PhD

Agricultural & Biological Engineering, MS | Agricultural & Biological Engineering, PhD

Applied Mathematics, MS

Astronomy, PhD

Atmospheric Sciences, MS | Atmospheric Sciences, PhD

Bioengineering, PhD

Biology: Ecology, Ethology, and Evolution, MS | Biology: Ecology, Ethology, and Evolution, PhD

Biophysics & Quantitative Biology, PhD

Chemical Engineering, PhD

Chemistry, PhD

Civil Engineering, MS | Civil Engineering, PhD

Computer Science, MCS | Computer Science, MS | Computer Science, PhD

Electrical & Computer Engineering, MS | Electrical & Computer Engineering, PhD

Entomology, MS | Entomology, PhD

Environmental Engineering in Civil Engineering, MS | Environmental Engineering in Civil Engineering, PhD

Financial Engineering, MS

Geography, MS | Geography, PhD

Industrial Engineering, MS

Materials Science & Engineering, MS | Materials Science & Engineering, PhD

Mathematics, MS | Mathematics, PhD

Mechanical Engineering, MS | Mechanical Engineering, PhD

Nuclear, Plasma, & Radiological Engineering, MS | Nuclear, Plasma, & Radiological Engineering, PhD

Physics, PhD

Plant Biology, MS | Plant Biology, PhD

Statistics, PhD

Systems & Entrepreneurial Engineering, MS

Teaching of Mathematics MS

Theoretical & Applied Mechanics, MS | Theoretical & Applied Mechanics, PhD

For more information regarding the CSE Graduate Concentration, visit the Computational Science and Engineering website ,  contact the CSE Office at (217) 333-3247, or email us .

for the graduate concentration in Computational Science & Engineering  

Admission Students wishing to enroll in the Computational Science & Engineering Concentration should follow the enrollment procedure on the program's website .

Program Director: Luke Olson Contact:  Bryan Wang Program website Concentration website  Program faculty  1205 W Clark St, Suite 2029, Urbana, IL 61801 (217) 300-5696 CSE email

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Doctoral students with an MS Degree or a High Pass on the MS exam who successfully complete their prelim examinations and obtain the written approval of a faculty member to serve as the thesis advisor are formally recommended to the Graduate College as doctoral candidates .

PhD Candidacy Related Forms:

Preliminary Exam Registration Minor Sequence Request PhD Advisor Request  Oral Exam Paperwork for Statistics

PhD Candidacy Requirements = Prelims + Minor Sequence + Advisor

1. Two written prelims must be selected from the list of approved written prelims outlined below. Each written prelim is based on a designated sequence of two graduate courses and must be passed with qualifying scores. Prelim scores are assigned on the basis of 1 (best), 2, 3, and 5 (fail). The sum of the scores of the two written prelims may not exceed 4. Prelim exams are offered each spring semester during the 2 weeks following finals week and students should register by mid-April.

2. Students declare their minor sequence on the Minor Sequence Request form , consists of a sequence of two 500-level courses described in the Graduate Handbook as leading to a written prelim. The minor sequence may not overlap an area in which a written prelim is taken. Doctoral students may satisfy the minor sequence in one of two ways, either by completing the sequence of two 500-level courses leading to the prelim OR by passing a third written prelim.

The two course grades earned in the minor sequence are converted into a numerical score as follows:

Two A’s = 1 One A and One B = 2 Two B’s = 3 All other combinations = 5

3. The combined preliminary exams plus minor sequence score must be 6 or less.

4. Request the written approval of a faculty member to serve as the thesis advisor

5. PhD students in the Probability and Statistics program must pass an oral prelim exam, which should be done soon after successfully completing the two written prelims and the minor sequence. To arrange a date for the oral prelim exam, students must submit the Committee Recommendation form , endorsed by the thesis advisor, to the Graduate Studies office at least 30 days prior to the oral prelim exam. The committee consists of five members; three members must be UIC Graduate Faculty with full membership, and two must be tenured. The committee vote is pass or fail.

APPROVED WRITTEN PRELIMS

Pure and Applied Mathematics

• MATH 516        Second Course in Abstract Algebra I
• MATH 517        Second Course in Abstract Algebra II
• MATH 533        Real Analysis I
• MATH 535        Complex Analysis I

Geometry and Topology

• MATH 547        Algebraic Topology I
• MATH 549        Differentiable Manifolds I
• MATH 502        Mathematical Logic plus one of the following:
• MATH 504        Set Theory
• MATH 506        Model Theory I
• MATH 511        Descriptive Set Theory

Differential Equations

• MATH 576        Classical Methods of Partial Differential Equations
• MATH 585        Ordinary Differential Equations

Methods in Applied Analysis

• MATH 539        Functional Analysis I
• MCS 571            Numerical Analysis of Partial Differential Equations

Number Theory

• MATH 514        Number Theory I
• MATH 515        Number Theory II

Mathematical Computer Science

Combinatorics: Two of the following courses

• MCS 521            Combinatorial Optimization
• MCS 582            The Probabilistic Method
• MCS 583            Extremal Combinatorics
• MSC 584            Enumerative Combinatorics
• MSC 591            Advanced Topics in Combinatorial Theory

Algorithms and Complexity: Two of the following courses

• MCS 501           Computer Algorithms II
• MCS 541            Computational Complexity
• MCS 548            Mathematical Theory of Artificial Intelligence
• MCS 549            Mathematical Foundations of Data Science
• MCS 590            Advanced Topics in Computer Science

Computational Science :  Two of the following courses

• MCS 507            Mathematical, Statistical and Scientific Software
• MCS 563            Analytic Symbolic Computation
• MCS 571            Numerical Analysis for Partial Differential Equations
• MCS 572            Introduction to Supercomputing

Probability and Statistics

Probability and Statistics (required for all Statistics PhD students)

• STAT 501          Probability Theory I
• STAT 511          Advanced Statistical Theory I

Linear Inference, Sampling, and Design

• STAT 521           Linear Statistical Inference plus one of the following:
• STAT 522           Multivariate Statistical Analysis
• STAT 531           Sampling Theory I
• STAT 535           Optimal Design Theory I

PhD in Mechanical Engineering

The Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering boasts a world-class program leading to the PhD in Mechanical Engineering, offering tremendous flexibility in course selection.

Students may choose whether or not to earn the MS on the way to earning the PhD in Mechanical Engineering. Most students joining the department enter the PhD program in Stage 1, during which students complete their MS degree in Mechanical Engineering or Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. An outline of the steps toward completion of the Mechanical Engineering PhD is presented below.

Stage 1: MS or its Equivalent

Please select a link for information on getting your MS degree in  ME  & or  TAM .*

Students entering directly after earning the BS are considered Stage 1 PhD students until the prerequisite for the qualifying exam has been completed. 

Stage 2: Qualifying Examination, PhD Coursework, Preliminary Examination

The Department requires graduate students to successfully complete a qualifying examination to formally enter the PhD program.

ME PhD Qualifying Examination

The objective of the qualifying exam is to evaluate student’s sufficient depth and breadth of understanding in the area of research. Towards this goal, a committee of two faculty members appointed by the Associate Head for Graduate Programs for each examinee will administer an hour-long oral exam on a peer-reviewed, archival journal article related to student’s area of research. The committee will be asked to select an important paper in the student’s research field, consistent with the fact that the student has a two-week preparation period.  The paper is chosen by the committee in consultation with the student’s advisor, and is provided to the student two weeks ahead of the exam. The article may not be one authored/co-authored by the student or by any faculty in the department.  The exam result is presented as pass, conditional pass or fail, and should be submitted via email to the Graduate Programs Coordinator.  The Assistant Director of Graduate Programs will relay the result to the student’s advisor.

A minimum of B+ grade in each of four independent courses from any one or a combination of any two areas chosen from an approved list (see below) is a prerequisite for taking the qualifying exam.

A student may attempt the examination twice.

Details of the Exam

Prerequisites:   A B+ grade or higher in each of the four independent courses chosen from an approved list (see below) is a prerequisite for appearing in the qualifying exam. These four courses can be chosen from a single area or a combination of any two areas. In addition, the student is required to take the qualifying exam within two years after a master’s degree or within three years of a bachelor’s degree. The advisor must approve the choice of courses. Students would be encouraged to retake a class to improve their grade sufficiently to meet the requirements. Transferred coursework cannot be used to fulfill the prerequisites of the qualifying exam.

Administration of the Qual Exam :  Students who have satisfied the prerequisites for the exam and wish to register should submit the  ME PhD Qualifying Exam Form to the Graduate Programs Office. Exam schedules will be set based on committee availability and must not be earlier than 3 weeks from the time of the request approval.

Advisors will email the names of three suggested committee members and three suggested articles to the Graduate Programs Office.

The Associate Head for Graduate Programs will review the request and select the two members for the evaluation committee.

A notice will be sent from the Graduate Programs Office to the committee, informing them that they have been appointed to administer the examination and who has been named Committee Chair. The notice will also include the suggested articles from the advisor and the timeline in which the exam needs to be scheduled.

Students are responsible for picking a date and time that works for all committee members. Once a date and time are confirmed by all committee members, students must email [email protected]  the date and time of their exam, with each member of the committee carbon-copied (CCed) on the email. 

Oral Examination Committee:   A committee of two faculty members from MechSE appointed by the Associate Head for Graduate Programs for each examinee will administer an hour-long oral exam on a peer-reviewed, archival journal article related to student’s area of research.

Journal article:  The student will be examined on a published, peer-reviewed archival journal article related to student’s research. The student’s adviser will provide a suggested list of papers to the Graduate Programs Office with a rationale for the choice of the articles, to be shared with the examining committee.  The committee may choose a paper from the list, or it can choose a paper outside of the advisor’s suggested list, but from within the general research area of the student.  The selected paper must be an important paper in the student’s research field, consistent with the fact that the student has a two-week preparation period. If the article selected is outside the list, the committee needs to provide a rationale for the choice of the article, and a statement describing the reason as to why an article was  not  chosen from the advisor’s suggested list. The committee’s statement will be provided to the Associate Head (AH) for Grad Programs, and  not  to the student’s advisor. AH may communicate the statement to the advisor at his/her own discretion.  The article may not be one authored/co-authored by the student or by any faculty in the department.  In addition to reading the article, the student is expected to review the related literature.  The article will be provided to the student two weeks ahead of the exam, so please contact the Graduate Programs Office with the article selection as quickly as possible. Once the paper is selected, the student will be notified to contact the committee to schedule the examination.

Grading:  The student must present the material from the article in 30 minutes, and answer committee’s questions in the remaining 30 minutes. The exam will be graded on the following points:

• overall significance of the article
• influence of the work on the development of the field
• possible future research directions in the area of the article
• the key findings of the work
• connection to student’s research

Outcome of the exam:  the result can be (a) an unconditional pass, (b) a conditional pass pending taking a specific course or courses with a defined minimum grade, and (c) a fail. On failing, a student may repeat the oral exam once.

Approved List of Areas and Courses

Combustion: ME 403, 501, 503; CHBE 551/CHEM 582; CHEM 522;

Computational Mechanics: ME 412, 447, 471, 570; TAM 470, 570, 574; CEE 576; CS 446, 450; MSE 485

Controls: ME 446, 460, 461, 541, 561, 562; AE 403, 454, 504, 555, 556; ECE 486, 515 (same as ME 540), 517, 534, 553, 555, 568, 573; Math 518, 519, 540, 541, 550, 551

Dynamics: ME 440, 546 (same as ECE 528); TAM 412, 416, 514, 518; TAM 515 / AE 554

Fluid Mechanics: ME 410, 411(same as AE 412), 412, 504, 510; TAM 435, 531, 532, 534, 536, 537, 538, 570; AE 511, 514, 515

Heat Transfer: ME 401, 411 (same as AE 412), 412, 420, 502, 504, 520, 521, 522, 523

Manufacturing: ME 450, 451, 452, 453 455, 458, 541, 550, 554; AE 526

Materials: CHEM 524; ME 430, 431, 530, 531, 532, 533; MSE 455, 460, 480, 488; PHYS 460; TAM 424, 427, 428, 524, 534, 559; AE 525, 526

MEMS/NEMS: ME 485, 487, 523, 586

Solid Mechanics: ME 430, 472; TAM 445, 451, 456, 529, 545, 551, 552, 554, 555, 557, 559; AE 522, 523, 528, 529, 550, 559

Biomechanics: ME 481, 482, 483; TAM 461

Thermodynamics & Energy Conversion: ME 400 (this course will be counted for the Qualifying Examination for those who have taken the course during Spring 2017 or earlier), ME 401, ME 402, ME 404, ME 502, ME 512; CHEM 442, CHEM 524, CHEM 544; PHYS 427/MSE 500 (one or the other--students may not take both), PHYS 486, PHYS 487, PHYS 504

Coursework***

If a student is entering with a completed MS degree or plans to earn the MS on the way to the PhD, the coursework requirements are 20 hours of graduate-level coursework beyond the MS, to include: at least 8 hours of 500-level courses, an advanced 500-level math course taught at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus (which can be counted as  part of the required 8 hours of 500-level coursework).  The advanced math requirements may be satisfied by TAM 541, TAM 542, TAM 549, ECE 534, or any 500-level course offered by the Mathematics Department except for the following: MATH 596, MATH 597, MATH 598, and MATH 599.  At least 8 hours of “Enrichment” coursework (graduate level courses that do not strongly overlap with the student’s main research topic) to be chosen in consultation with the advisor, and at least 44 hours of dissertation credit (599) beyond the MS.  Additional courses beyond the 8 hours of 500-level courses may be ME or TAM graduate-level courses (400-500 level), or other engineering graduate-level technical courses chosen in consultation with advisor.  No more than 4 of the 20 hours may be ME or TAM 597, Independent Study.

If the PhD is pursued directly after the bachelor's degree, the coursework requirements are 44 hours of formal graded coursework to include 16 hours at the 500 level, 4 of which may be ME 597 Independent Study and may include the required 3-4 hours of 500-level math.  The math requirement may be satisfied by TAM 541, TAM 542, TAM 549, ECE 534, or any 500-level course offered by the Mathematics Department except for the following: MATH 596, MATH 597, MATH 598, and MATH 599. At least 8 hours of “Enrichment” coursework (graduate level courses that do not strongly overlap with the student’s main research topic) to be chosen in consultation with the advisor, and at least 52 hours of dissertation credit (599) beyond the MS.  Additional courses beyond the 16 hours of 500-level courses may be ME or TAM graduate-level courses (400-500 level), or other engineering graduate-level technical courses chosen in consultation with advisor.  

Preliminary and Final Examinations

Scheduled upon completion of coursework requirement or in the semester in which the final coursework is taken. To schedule your exam, please see this page on the Graduate College website: grad.illinois.edu/thesis/submitting-doctoral-committee-requests  

You should submit your exam request to the Graduate College at least 3 weeks prior to the approximate exam date. Once you have submitted your Graduate College exam request, a notice is sent to the MechSE Graduate Programs  Office to approve the request. Once the request is approved by the MechSE Graduate Programs Office, the Graduate College will send the student and the MechSE Graduate Programs Office notice that the exam has been approved. 

After the Graduate College has approved your exam and you have been notified of the approval via email, the MechSE Graduate Programs Office will direct you to complete the Departmental Preliminary Exam Request Form or Departmental Final Exam Request Form . These forms should be submitted online to the MechSE Graduate Programs Office at least one week prior to the exam. 

Preliminary Examination proposals should be 20 pages in length including introductory pages, figures, etc. It should include statement of proposed research, its objectives and significance; a brief review of previous work on related research; and a short discussion of tentative methods of analysis and/or experimentation. There are no specific format requirements for the proposal. 

Final Examination abstracts should be submitted as a double-spaced Microsoft Word document in Times New Roman, size 12 font. The research summary should be one paragraph long, submitted as a Microsoft word document in size 11, Calibri font.

PROCESS FOR REPORTING EXAM RESULTS

The process for reporting Prelim and Final exam results is as follows:

The Committee Chair should email  [email protected] , cc’d to the committee members.  The email must include the following information:

• For Preliminary Exams : 1) Date of the exam, 2) Result of the exam, 3) Names of committee members
• For Final Exams : 1) Date of the exam, 2) Result of the exam, 3) Names of committee members, 4) How each committee member voted
• For Thesis/Dissertation Approval Forms : 1) Approval of the document, 2) Names of committee members

The Graduate Programs Office will attach the result confirmation email to the PER/FER form, which should include the signature of the EO or DGS at the bottom. This departmental signature confirms the accuracy of the result, which aligns with our standard practice.

DOCTORAL EXAMINATION COMMITTEE REQUIREMENTS

• Graduate College policy requires this committee shall have a minimum of 4 voting members, 3 of whom must be University of Illinois Graduate Faculty (i.e. they have an appointment with the Graduate College as teaching faculty who instruct a graduate course or courses.   MechSE policy states at least 1 of the 4 voting members must not be from the department of the candidate.  Committee members from outside the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are welcome but would serve in addition to the 3 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign committee members.  If a member of the committee is non-UIUC faculty and will participate as a non-voting member, nothing additional is required.  If you desire a non-UIUC faculty member to serve as a voting committee member, a letter/email of justification from the advisor, stating what qualifies the person to be a voting member on the committee along with the person’s CV, must be attached to the exam request at the time of submission.
• Three of the committee members must be listed as Graduate Faculty members and two must be tenured (Associate Professor or Professor).  The committee should include faculty members from more than one area of specialization.
• The “Chair” must be a member of the Graduate Faculty from the candidate’s department and may also be the Director of Dissertation Research.  The chair is responsible for convening the committee, conducting the examination, and submitting the Certificate of Result to the department in which the student is enrolled.
• A “Contingent Chair,” if designated, must be a member of the Graduate Faculty.  The Contingent Chair serves if the original chair is unable to serve for any reason.
•  The Director of Dissertation Research is responsible for guiding/advising the student in their thesis research as part of an ongoing research project.  He/she may also discuss a tentative course of study or recommend a sequence of courses the student can take reflecting the interest of the student.
• A Department Affiliate cannot serve as a “Chair” or a “Contingent Chair” of a Preliminary Examination or Final Examination Committee.  Only faculty members of the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering may serve in that capacity.

SEMINAR REQUIREMENT

Continuous registration in ME 590 is required until completion of the preliminary exam unless the student will not attend the full semester the preliminary exam is administered. In this case, the student does not need to register in their final semester. Seminar credit cannot be counted toward coursework requirements.

Stage 3: Thesis and Final Examination

THESIS FOCUS

Thesis and Final Examination

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION DEFENSE

May be taken no sooner than six months after the preliminary examination.

FINAL EXAMINATION

Residency requirement: The University of Illinois requires that 64 hours must be from courses meeting on the Urbana-Champaign campus or at other locations approved by the Graduate College for resident credit. *A student entering with a MS degree is credited with 32 hours of coursework, leaving 64 hours to be completed at Illinois. **A maximum of 4 hours of ME 597 Independent study may be applied toward the 500-level coursework requirement. ***Coursework applied toward the degree must be approved by the Associate Head for Graduate Programs.

Continuous registration in ME 590 is required until completion of the preliminary exam. Seminar credit cannot be counted toward coursework requirements. Students are required to attend a minimum of 4 seminars in the semester. The seminar schedule is e-mailed to students at the beginning of each semester.

Students enrolled in a course that conflicts with ME 590 or TAM 500 still need to register for ME 590/TAM 500 and are required to attend alternate seminars.

To complete seminar registration with a conflict:

• Request a registration override by contacting the Undergraduate Programs Office at  [email protected] . Include your name, UIN, and the course you are enrolled in that is in conflict with the seminar. Also, list the seminar course you will register for (ME 590 or TAM 500).
• You will receive an email when the override is entered.
• You must register for ME 590 after the override is entered.

To receive credit for alternate seminars:

Alternate seminars include TAM 539 Fluids Seminar Series (for students who are registered in TAM 539), any other MechSE seminars not listed as part of the MechSE Seminar Series, and other seminars in Engineering, Math, or Physics.

Questions? MS/PhD: [email protected] M.Eng.ME: [email protected]

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Wegrzyn awarded SMART Scholarship

PhD student Emily Wegrzyn has been selected for the prestigious Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship-for-Service Program, which is funded by the Department of Defense. The primary aim of this program is to increase the number of civilian engineers and scientists in the U.S. 

Wegrzyn holds a BA in history and MA in intelligence studies from American Military University and MLS from Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis. Her interest in librarianship started when she returned to college after serving in Iraq with the Army National Guard. While studying to become an X-ray technologist, Wegrzyn worked full time as a library assistant at the College of Coastal Georgia.

Wegrzyn's supervisory librarian, Duressa Pujat, told her that what she really wanted was to be a librarian and that she was a "natural." These words rang true to Wegrzyn, who finished her bachelor's degree and pursued library school.

Before completing her master's degree in library science, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers hired her on a conditional basis for a position in the DC/Virginia area. When there was a vacancy at the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, Wegrzyn relocated to Champaign to be part of the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), the research and development arm of the Corps. 

"As fate would have it, I transferred into a location that is also home to the nation's number one graduate program in library and information studies. Fortuitous!"

With the SMART Scholarship, Wegrzyn can keep her position as an ERDC librarian while she upgrades/upskills to her goal of earning her PhD and pursuing her own research—focused on applying information literacy approaches to disrupt adversarial information operations. In the future, Wegrzyn would like to explore ways that gamification can strengthen one's information literacy, and the potential for artificial intelligence to help verify information, boosting individual cognitive security.

The scholarship supplements her salary, allowing her to work less than full time, while pursuing her PhD full time. 

"This was a once-in-a-lifetime chance, and I had to go for it," said Wegrzyn of the scholarship. "Thankfully, I was selected. In all honesty, I was fully prepared to go for round two, maybe even round three if needed. As a retention scholar in the SMART program, I can stay right where I am at ERDC and the Corps of Engineers, but after finishing my PhD, I will have more research, leadership, and vertical movement opportunities."

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Mathematics phd program.

The Ph.D. program in the Department of Mathematics provides students with in-depth knowledge and rigorous training in all the subject areas of mathematics. A core feature is the first-year program, which helps bring students to the forefront of modern mathematics. Students work closely with faculty and each other and participate fully in both research and student-run seminars.

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The Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science graduate program includes about 130 graduate students working in pure mathematics, applied mathematics, mathematical computer science, statistics, and mathematics education.

The University of Illinois at Chicago is a Carnegie-classified Research 1 Institution and the largest institution of higher learning in Chicago. The Department  has an international reputation for top level research with very strong research groups in Algebraic Geometry, Geometry, Topology and Dynamics, Logic (including Set Theory and Model Theory), Number Theory, Analysis and Partial Differential Equations, Combinatorics, Theoretical Computer Science, Statistics and Mathematics Education.

The Department has 47 tenured and tenure track faculty who hold many prestigious awards , including 15 Sloan Foundation Fellows, 17 NSF CAREER grant recipients, 23 Fellows of the American Mathematical Society,  3 American Statistical Association Fellows, 3 SIAM Fellows, 7 Simons Fellows, 6 International Congress of Mathematicians invited speakers, and more. We average over a dozen research seminars each week, host a Friday colloquium series bringing eminent mathematicians, computer scientists, and statisticians to campus, and offer several learning seminars organized by graduate students.

Our graduating students do quite well in academia, and in recent years they have received NSF postdoctoral fellowships at MIT, UC Berkeley, Penn State and prestigious postdoctoral positions at Stony Brook University, U Chicago, UCLA, U Michigan, U Penn, U Toronto, U Maryland, Gottingen, and the University of Warwick. In industry, MSCS alums have accepted positions at Google, Microsoft, Argonne National Laboratory, AbbVie, and Facebook.

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Admission Requirements

Transcripts of all undergraduate and any graduate work must be submitted. In addition to the Graduate College minimum requirements, applicants must meet the following program requirements:

Baccalaureate Field  Mathematics or a related field.

Grade Point Average   At least 3.00/4.00 for the final 60 semester hours (90 quarter hours) of undergraduate study, and an average of 3.00 in all mathematics courses beyond calculus.

Tests Required  Neither the GRE General Exam nor the subject exams are required. Applicants may still submit GRE scores; however, an absence of GRE scores will not negatively impact their application.

Minimum English Competency Test Score ( if native language is not English)

TOEFL  100, with subscores of Reading 19, Listening 17, Speaking 23, and Writing 21 (iBT Test); 60, with subscores of Reading 19, Listening 17, Writing 21 (revised Paper-Delivered Test), OR ,

IELTS  7.0, with subscores of 7.0 for all four subscores, OR ,

• PTE-Academic 54, with subscores of Reading 51, Listening 47, Speaking 53, and Writing 56.

Letters of Recommendation  Three required from persons familiar with the applicant’s academic work.

Personal Statement  Required.

Degree Requirements

In addition to the Graduate College minimum requirements, students must meet the following program requirements:

• Minimum Semester Hours Required  96 from the baccalaureate.
• Course Work  At least 40 hours must be in 500-level mathematics courses, excluding thesis research ( MATH 599 ,  MCS 599 , or  STAT 599 ).
• Preliminary Examination  Required.
• Dissertation  Required. Students earn at least 32 hours in thesis research ( MATH 599 , MCS 599 , or STAT 599 ).

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Laura Hernandez Awarded 3-Year Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation

Laura Hernandez has been honored with a three-year Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation (NSF). This prestigious fellowship is awarded to promising graduate students with outstanding potential for significant research contributions in their respective fields. Hernandez's receipt of this esteemed fellowship is a testament to their exceptional academic prowess and dedication to advancing scientific knowledge.

The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) is highly competitive, with thousands of applicants vying for a limited number of yearly awards. The rigorous selection process evaluates applicants based on their intellectual merit, broader impacts of their research, and potential for leadership in their fields. 

With the support of the NSF fellowship, Hernandez will have the opportunity to delve further into their research interests and pursue innovative projects that have the potential to make significant advancements in her field. The fellowship's financial support will allow them to focus wholeheartedly on their research without financial constraints, enabling them to explore new avenues of inquiry and push the boundaries of scientific knowledge.

Beyond the financial support, the NSF fellowship also offers a range of professional development opportunities, including access to specialized workshops, conferences, and networking events. These resources enhance their research skills, engage with peers and experts in the field, and establish valuable collaborations.

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Phd alumni by advisor, phd alumni by advisor.

Roberto Toro Rodriguez (AMCS), PhD, 2019

Dan Anderson

• Joaquin Pascual-Garcia, PhD, 1986
• Byung Gyun Kang, PhD, 1987
• Richard Spellerberg, PhD, 1990
• Kent Knopp, PhD, 1991
• Rebecca Lewin, PhD, 1991
• Francisco Alarcon, PhD, 1992
• Muhammad Naseer, PhD, 1992
• Jeanam Park, PhD, 1992
• Silvia Valdes-Leon, PhD, 1993
• Susan LaGrassa, PhD, 1995
• Bernadette Mullins, PhD, 1995
• Roy Quintero, PhD, 1997
• Joe Alyn Stickles, Jr., PhD, 1998
• Sylvia Cook, PhD, 1999
• Michael Axtell, PhD, 2000
• Eric Smith, PhD, 2001
• Myung Sook Ahn, PhD, 2003
• Sharon Clarke, PhD, 2003
• John Robeson, PhD, 2003
• Michael Winders, PhD, 2004
• Amit Ganatra, PhD, 2005
• Malik Bataineh, PhD, 2006
• Andrea Frazier, PhD, 2006
• Suzanne Hamon, PhD, 2007
• Sangmin Chun, PhD, 2008
• Reyes Matiel Ortiz-Albino, PhD, 2008
• John Kintzinger, PhD, 2009
• Jonathan Preisser, PhD, 2009
• Colin McKinney, PhD, 2010
• Jeremiah Reinkoester, PhD, 2010
• Alina Florescu, PhD, 2013
• Jason Juett, PhD, 2013
• Christopher Mooney, PhD, 2013
• Ranthony Edmonds, PhD, 2018
• Erik Hasse, PhD, 2018
• Kevin Bombardier, PhD, 2019

Kurt Anstreicher and Samuel Burer

Hongbo Dong (AMCS), PhD, 2011

Kurt Anstreicher & Jeff Ohlmann

Jon Van Laarhoven (AMCS), PhD, 2010

Steve Armentrout

• Bruce Allen Anderson, PhD, 1966
• Thomas C. Hutchinson, PhD, 1966
• William L. Voxman, PhD, 1968
• John P. Neuzil, PhD, 1969
• Ralph R. Summerhill, PhD, 1969

Kendall Atkinson

• James E. Logan, PhD, 1976
• Clayton W. Miller, PhD, 1979
• Pedro Oscar Cubillos-Herrara, PhD, 1980
• Tzu-Chu Lin, PhD, 1982
• Daniel G. Willis, PhD, 1986
• Jorge Saavedra, PhD, 1988
• Josaf Flores, PhD, 1990
• David Chien, PhD, 1991
• Robert Doucette, PhD, 1991
• Edwin Hardee, PhD, 1993
• Young-mok Jeon, PhD, 1993
• Yajun Yang, PhD, 1993
• Yan Chen, PhD, 1994
• Sanda Micula, PhD, 1997
• Jaehoon Seol (AMCS), PhD, 2002

Bruce Ayati

• Jason Graham (AMCS), PhD, 2012
• Xiayi Wang (AMCS), PhD, 2015
• Catherine Patterson (AMCS), PhD, 2016
• Julia Walk (AMCS), PhD, 2016
• Ruqiah Muhammad (AMCS), PhD, 2019

Richard Baker

Cecil Flournoy, PhD, 2011

Frauke Bleher

• Giovanna Llosent, PhD, 2007
• Jennifer Froelich, PhD, 2008
• Jose Velez Marulanda, PhD, 2010
• Shannon Talbott, PhD, 2012
• David C. Meyer, PhD, 2015
• Roberto Soto, PhD, 2015
• Daniel Wackwitz, PhD, 2015
• Benjamin Margolin, PhD, 2016
• Adam Wood, PhD, 2020

Frauke Bleher & Victor Camillo

Nicholas Camacho, PhD, 2020

James C. McKim, Jr., PhD, 1973

Thomas Branson

• Larry Peterson, PhD, 1998
• Oleg Svidersky, PhD, 2002
• William Ugalde, PhD, 2003
• Doojin Hong, PhD, 2004

Dennis Bricker

• Zhen Huang (AMCS), PhD, 1991
• Hsiao-Ying Chang (AMCS), PhD, 1993
• LiNa Xu (AMCS), PhD, 1996
• Imad Benjelloun (AMCS), PhD, 2003
• Hong Jiang (AMCS), PhD, 2003

Samuel Burer

• Boshi Yang (AMCS), PhD, 2015
• Nathaniel Richmond (AMCS), PhD, 2016

George Burke

Michael R. Cullen, PhD, 1968

Stevan A. Hubbard, PhD, 1973

Victor Camillo

• Edward Robert Voss, PhD, 1980
• Yufei Xiao, PhD, 1995
• Hua-Ping Yu, PhD, 1996
• Brian Borchers, PhD, 2015
• Jessica Williams, PhD, 2015
• Katie Burke, PhD, 2020

Victor Camillo & Miodrag Iovanov

Le Tang, PhD, 2022

Ann Campbell

• Li Zhang (AMCS), PhD, 2004
• Iurii Bakach (AMCS), PhD, 2020

Ann Campbell & Barrett Thomas

Sara Reed (AMCS), PhD, 2021

Gregory Carmichael

Dacian Daescu (AMCS), PhD, 2001

Gregory Carmichael & Florian Potra

Adrian Sandu (AMCS), PhD, 1997

Joseph Cavanaugh

Nan Hu (AMCS), PhD, 2016

• Richard Bernatz (AMCS), PhD, 1991
• Hui-Chun Tien (AMCS), PhD, 1993
• Weizhong Dai (AMCS), PhD, 1994

Ionut Chifan

• Rolando De Santiago, PhD, 2017
• Sujan Pant, PhD, 2017
• Wanchalerm Sucpikarnon, PhD, 2019

Ionut Chifan & Raul Curto

Alec Diaz-Arias, PhD, 2020

• Rebeccah MacKinnon, PhD, 2019
• Mitchell Messmore, PhD, 2020
• Iurii Bakhira, PhD, 2021
• Hoang-an Nguyen, PhD, 2023
• Pravakar Paul, PhD, 2023

Dean Corbae

Robert Dittmar (AMCS), PhD, 1996

James Cremer

Xiaoxu Han (AMCS), PhD, 2004

• Ximena Catepillin-Clares, PhD, 1991
• Patricio Olivares, PhD, 1991
• George Yao Ji, PhD, 1996
• Jose Gimenez, PhD, 2000
• Jasang Yoon, PhD, 2003
• Stefan Bildea, PhD, 2005
• Seonguk Yoo, PhD, 2011

Raúl Curto & Charles Frohman

Razvan Gelca, PhD, 1997

Rodica Curtu

• Danilo Diedrichs (AMCS), PhD, 2012
• Jeannine Abiva (AMCS), PhD, 2013
• Morgan Fonley Schiller (AMCS), PhD, 2015
• Joseph Ambrose (AMCS), PhD, 2016
• Aarati Mahat (AMCS), PhD, 2018
• Anh Nguyen (AMCS), PhD, 2019
• Pake Melland (AMCS), PhD, 2021

Alan Dankner

Philip Boyland, PhD, 1983

Isabel Darcy

• Ram Kishore Medikonduri (AMCS), PhD, 2007
• Soojeong Kim (AMCS), PhD, 2010
• Hyeyoung Moon (AMCS), PhD, 2010
• Candice Price, PhD, 2012
• Garrett Jones, PhD, 2013
• Mary Therese Padberg (AMCS), PhD, 2013
• Annette Honken, PhD, 2015
• Leyda Almodovar Velazquez, PhD, 2016
• Christine Caples (AMCS), PhD, 2017
• Catalina Betancourt, PhD, 2018
• Wako Bungula, PhD, 2019
• Maria Gommel, PhD, 2019
• Paul Ignacio, PhD, 2019
• Nicholas Connolly, PhD, 2021
• Ethan Rooke (AMCS), PhD, 2023

Douglas Dion & Jonathan K. Hodge

Mark Krines (AMCS), PhD, 2014

Donald Dorfman

Michael Suelzer (AMCS), PhD, 1991

Oguz Durumeric

• Beng-Chong Teo, PhD, 1992
• Kimberly Huerter, PhD, 2009
• Richard Ligo, PhD, 2017

Oguz Durumeric & Gary Christiansen

Melanie King (AMCS), PhD, 2020

• Arvind Rao, PhD, 2010
• Mijia Lai, PhD, 2011
• Pedro Valentin De Jesus, PhD, 2021
• Biao Ma, PhD, 2022

Jeffrey Freeman

Mirela Iancu (AMCS), PhD, 2000

Charles Frohman

• Douglas Bullock, PhD, 1995
• Walter LoFaro, PhD, 1998
• Daylene Zielinski, PhD, 1998
• Michael McLendon, PhD, 2002
• Kristen Sellke, PhD, 2006
• Carmen Caprau, PhD, 2007
• Juan Ortiz Navarro, PhD, 2007
• Robert Todd, PhD, 2007
• Matthew Stoeckel, PhD, 2008
• Heather Molle, PhD, 2009
• Jeffery Boerner, PhD, 2010
• Adam McDougall, PhD, 2010
• Paul Drube, PhD, 2011
• Michael Fitzpatrick, PhD, 2014
• Dido Salazar-Torres, PhD, 2015
• Nathan Druivenga, PhD, 2016
• Colon Nelson, PhD, 2016
• Thomas Kindred, PhD, 2018
• Shawn Nevalainen, PhD, 2021
• Anup Poudel, PhD, 2022

Charles Frohman & Julianna Tymoczko

Heather Russell, PhD, 2009

Kent Fuller

• William A. Shutters, PhD, 1974
• Harlan Hullinger, PhD, 1977
• Joel K Haack, PhD, 1979
• Douglas Burkholder, PhD, 1984
• Weimin Xue, PhD, 1988
• Yong Wang, PhD, 1993
• Zhengping Zhou, PhD, 1994

Juan Gatica

William Smith, PhD, 1982

John Geweke

Yu Jiang (AMCS), PhD, 2009

Richard Goldberg

• Hwai-Chiuan Wang, PhD, 1971
• James T. Burnham, PhD, 1972
• Stanley Seltzer, PhD, 1977

Fred Goodman

• Juliana Erlijman, PhD, 1995
• Holly Hauschild, PhD, 2005
• John Graber, PhD, 2009
• Jie Chen, PhD, 1995
• Jiuhua Chen, PhD, 1999
• Viorel Bostan (AMCS), PhD, 2004
• Syed Hassan Kamran Kazmi (AMCS), PhD, 2008
• Joseph Eichholz (AMCS), PhD, 2011
• Qiwei Sheng (AMCS), PhD, 2013
• Kenneth Czuprynski (AMCS), PhD, 2017
• Mingxiu Sui (AMCS), PhD, 2022

Weimin Han & Jianfeng Cai

Tianyi Zhang (AMCS), PhD, 2015

Weimin Han & Kenneth Kortanek

Qinghong Zhang (AMCS), PhD, 2002

Edward Haug

• Kyung K. Choi (AMCS), PhD, 1980
• Chi-Mei Luh (AMCS), PhD, 1995
• Frederick Adkins (AMCS), PhD, 1996
• Hung Ly Lam (AMCS), PhD, 1982

Edward Haug & Florian Potra

• Jeng Yen (AMCS), PhD, 1990
• Ming-Gong Lee (AMCS), PhD, 1992

Steve Hendrix & Yi Li

Kamuela Yong (AMCS), PhD, 2012

Herbert Hethcote & Steve Hendrix

Jose Candelaria (AMCS), PhD, 2005

Robert Hogg

Orlyn Paul Edge, PhD, 1966

Robert Hogg & Allen Craig

Mary Ruth Van Dyk Anderson, PhD, 1966

Gregory Howes

Jennifer Verniero (AMCS), PhD, 2019

Fengrong Wei (AMCS), PhD, 2009

Tatsuro Ichiishi

Van Warren Kolpin (AMCS), PhD, 1986

Miodrag Iovanov

• Koffi Gerard, PhD, 2015
• Adnan Abdulwahid, PhD, 2016
• Kevin Gerstle, PhD, 2016
• Jeremy Edison, PhD, 2019
• Alexander Sistko, PhD, 2019
• Ryan Bianconi, PhD, 2022
• Manuel Albizzio, PhD, 2023

Mathews Jacob

• Gregory Ongie (AMCS), PhD, 2016
• Qing Zou (AMCS), PhD, 2021

Raj Jagannathan

Wei Chen (AMCS), PhD, 2001

James Jakobsen

Robert Alvin Christiansen, PhD, 1965

Laurent Jay

• Hyounkyun Oh (AMCS), PhD, 2005
• Darin Mohr (AMCS), PhD, 2011
• Scott Small (AMCS), PhD, 2011
• Ekaterina Nathanson, PhD, 2014
• Gregory Tanner (AMCS), PhD, 2018
• Brice Merwine (AMCS), PhD, 2021

Eugene Johnson

• Michael E. Detlefsen, PhD, 1970
• Jane F. Wells, PhD, 1970

Norman Johnson

• Robert E. Seydel, PhD, 1973
• Haoru Huang, PhD, 1986
• Minerva Cordero Brana, PhD, 1989
• Raul Figueroa Guerrero, PhD, 1989
• Rodrigo Carraminana, PhD, 1993
• Kwun-Shen Lin, PhD, 1993
• Xiaobin Liu, PhD, 1996
• Dean Draayer, PhD, 1997
• Oscar Vega, PhD, 2006
• Esteban Diaz, PhD, 2007

Eugene Johnson & Harry Muhly

James A. Huckaba, PhD, 1967

Palle Jorgensen

• Humberto Prado, PhD, 1989
• Anna Maria Paolucci, PhD, 1992
• Xiu-Chi Quan, PhD, 1992
• Martin Olesen, PhD, 1994
• Yuan-Ching Huang, PhD, 1997
• Eui-chai Jeong, PhD, 1997
• Beth Peterson, PhD, 1998
• Dylmoon Hidayat, PhD, 2003
• Paul Johnson, PhD, 2003
• Ilona Svidersky, PhD, 2003
• Dorin Dutkay, PhD, 2004
• Myung-sin Song, PhD, 2005
• Scott Taylor, PhD, 2007
• Alfredo Villanueva, PhD, 2007
• Sujin Kim (AMCS), PhD, 2008
• Le Gui (AMCS), PhD, 2009
• Feng Tian, PhD, 2011
• Corissa Goertzen, PhD, 2013
• Robert Niedzialomski, PhD, 2013
• James Tipton, PhD, 2016
• Lu Yu, PhD, 2016
• Ze Zhao (AMCS), PhD, 2016
• Aqeeb Sabree, PhD, 2019
• Shrey Sanadhya, PhD, 2021
• Rajinda Wickrama (AMCS), PhD, 2021

Palle Jorgensen & Wayne Polyzou

Sheikh Gohin Samad, PhD, 2021

Jarkko Kari

Li Hong (AMCS), PhD, 2001

Keiko Kawamuro

• Marcos Ortiz, PhD, 2015
• Camila Ramirez, PhD, 2017
• Jesse Hamer, PhD, 2018
• Elaina Aceves, PhD, 2022

Surjit Khurana

• Carl G. Looney, PhD, 1972
• Seki A. Choo, PhD, 1976
• Josa Aguayo-Garrido, PhD, 1986
• Jorge Vielma-Barrios, PhD, 1986
• Sadoon Othman, PhD, 1987
• Luis Zurlo, PhD, 1995
• Maria Colasante, PhD, 1997

Ryan Kinser

• Ana Berrizbeitia, PhD, 2018
• Danny Lara, PhD, 2019
• Amrei Oswald, PhD, 2022
• Yariana Diaz, PhD, 2023
• Cody Gilbert, PhD, 2023

William A. Kirk

• William Royalty, PhD, 1969
• Nadim Assad, PhD, 1971
• Juan A. Gatica, PhD, 1972
• Robert L. Thele, PhD, 1972
• Tawfik N. Shimi, PhD, 1973
• James Caristi, PhD, 1975
• David Downing, PhD, 1977
• Thakyin Hu, PhD, 1977
• William Ray, PhD, 1977
• Ricardo M. Torrejon, PhD, 1979
• Claudio Hugo Morales, PhD, 1980
• Carlos Martinez-Yanez , PhD, 1986
• Tekamul Buber, PhD, 1994

Erwin Kleinfeld

• Harry F. Smith, PhD, 1972
• Lamarr Widmer, PhD, 1988

William Klink

Kevin Murphy (AMCS), PhD, 2009

William Klink & Tuong Ton-That

Randall Wills (AMCS), PhD, 1990

Kenneth Kortanek

Mei-Hsiu Chi (AMCS), PhD, 1991

Frank Kosier

• Irvin Hentzel, PhD, 1968
• John D. Arrison, PhD, 1970
• Daniel J. Britten, PhD, 1971
• Nadine C. Myers, PhD, 1971
• Richard J. Harris, PhD, 1972
• Seong-Nam Ng, PhD, 1972
• Douglas R. Rall, PhD, 1976

Muthu Krishnamurthy

• Luke Wassink, PhD, 2015
• Shantanu Agarwal, PhD, 2022

Philip Kutzko

• Antonio Pizarro, PhD, 1979
• Steven Douglas Berger, PhD, 1980
• Kristina Dale Hansen, PhD, 1981
• Jose Pantoja-Marcari, PhD, 1982
• Gricelda Gallegos, PhD, 1983
• Donggyun Kim, PhD, 1992
• Roberto Johnson, PhD, 1994
• Syvillia Averett, PhD, 2012
• Carlos De la Mora, PhD, 2012
• Carmen Wright, PhD, 2012

Howard Lambert

Abdul-Hafiz Itani, PhD, 1978

• Xuejin Charles Zhao, PhD, 1998
• Xiaojie Hou, PhD, 2004
• Huseyin Coskun (AMCS), PhD, 2006
• Chunshan Zhao, PhD, 2006
• Joaquin Rivera, PhD, 2007
• Alvero Correa, PhD, 2011
• Jeungeun Park, PhD, 2019
• Nitesh Mathur, PhD, 2023

Tong Li & Herbert Hethcote

Omayra Ortega (AMCS), PhD, 2008

Bor-Luh Lin

• Mark D. Levin, PhD, 1967
• Robert H. Lohman, PhD, 1968
• Clifford A. Kottman, PhD, 1969
• Peter G. Casazza, PhD, 1972
• Zhibao Hu, PhD, 1991
• Wenyao Zhang, PhD, 1991
• Ying-Hsiung Lin, PhD, 1992
• Shutao Chen, PhD, 1996
• Dongjian Chen, PhD, 1997
• Feng-Shuo Yu, PhD, 1997
• Da Huang, PhD, 1999
• Yanzheng Duan, PhD, 2007

Ching-Long Lin

Nathan Ellingwood (AMCS), PhD, 2014

Hassan Rafique (AMCS), PhD, 2020

Karl Lonngren

Hayley Shen (AMCS), PhD, 1976

Eugene Madison

• Stephen C. Kloster, PhD, 1971
• Glen H. Suter, PhD, 1971
• Thomas Anderson, PhD, 1987

David Manderscheid

• Manouchehr Misaghian, PhD, 2000
• Ryan Stuffelbeam, PhD, 2004
• Jitka Stehnova, PhD, 2008

Colleen Mitchell

• Ian Besse (AMCS), PhD, 2010
• Roseanna Wolf (AMCS), PhD, 2012
• Rebecca Gasper (AMCS), PhD, 2014
• Chenhong Zhu (AMCS), PhD, 2015
• Mitchell Riley (AMCS), PhD, 2022
• Anna Leinheiser (AMCS), PhD, 2023
• Alex Polenberg (AMCS), PhD, 2023

David Montgomery

David Fyfe (AMCS), PhD, 1977

Harry Muhly

• Frank Joseph Mestecky, PhD, 1965
• John Charles Nichols, PhD, 1966
• Michael J. McAsey, PhD, 1978
• Hector Salas, PhD, 1983
• John Froelich, PhD, 1984
• Kuen-Shan Ling, PhD, 1987
• Laura Mastringelo-Puech, PhD, 1991
• Chaoxin Qiu, PhD, 1991
• Valentin Deaconu, PhD, 1995
• Qiyuan Na, PhD, 1995
• Cynthia Farthing, PhD, 2005
• Marius Ionescu, PhD, 2005
• Alberto Marrero, PhD, 2005
• Victor Vega-Vazquez, PhD, 2007
• Jonas Meyer, PhD, 2010
• Samuel Schmidt, PhD, 2010
• Paulette Willis, PhD, 2010
• Andrew Greene, PhD, 2012
• Bogdan Udrea, PhD, 2012
• David Gaebler, PhD, 2013
• Travis Wolf, PhD, 2013
• Jennifer Good, PhD, 2015
• Erin Griesenauer, PhD, 2016
• Rene Ardila, PhD, 2017
• Rachael Norton, PhD, 2017
• Kathryn McCormick, PhD, 2018

George Nelson

• Jerud J. Mead, PhD, 1975
• Sidkazam Taghva, PhD, 1980
• Fahad Jalawi, PhD, 1986
• Robert J. Cacioppo, PhD, 1987
• Paul Iverson, PhD, 1988
• Ravi Salim, PhD, 1993
• Oki Neswan, PhD, 1997
• Luis Caceres-Duque, PhD, 1998
• Chihiro Oshima, PhD, 2003
• Leonida Ljumanovic, PhD, 2008

Kathy O'Hara

Darla Kremer, PhD, 1995

Robert Oehmke

• Billy D. Arendt, PhD, 1967
• Ralph J. Neuhaus, Jr., PhD, 1968
• Roger A. Avelsgaard, PhD, 1969
• Ralph A. Czerwinski, PhD, 1969
• Wendell P. Jones, PhD, 1969
• David R. Scribner, PhD, 1969
• Ralph P. Stinebrickner, PhD, 1969
• William Kent Herron, PhD, 1970
• Sister Mary J. Jorgan, PhD, 1970
• Bepin Behari Mehra, PhD, 1970
• Sister Victoria Pohl, PhD, 1970
• Daniel M. Flach, PhD, 1972
• John A. Sanders, PhD, 1972
• Kenneth Waugh, PhD, 1978
• Gregory P. Wene, PhD, 1978
• Xiang Dong Ye, PhD, 1987
• Chin-Hong Park, PhD, 1989
• Kyung Soon Jung Ha, PhD, 1990
• Eric Lund, PhD, 1990
• Yue-Chan Phoebe Ho, PhD, 1991
• Clement Lam, PhD, 1992
• Eun Ho Moon Lee, PhD, 1992
• Majid Ershad-Langroodi, PhD, 1993
• Asuman Oktac, PhD, 1994
• Rekha Bai, PhD, 1995
• David Feil, PhD, 1995
• Chong-Yih Wu, PhD, 1995
• Rixin Yan, PhD, 1997
• Taher Ahmed Abualrub, PhD, 1998
• Yugang Xiao, PhD, 2001
• Louis Beaugris, PhD, 2002
• Leonardo Morales, PhD, 2003

Suely Oliveira

• Koung-Hee Leem (AMCS), PhD, 2003
• Geoffrey Converse (AMCS), PhD, 2021

Wayne Polyzou

• Gordon Aiello (AMCS), PhD, 2017
• Tracie Michlin (AMCS), PhD, 2017

Florian Potra

• Prapasri Asawakun, PhD, 1989
• Hosae Lee, PhD, 1991
• Qing Qing Fu, PhD, 1992
• Yixun Shi, PhD, 1992
• Jun Ji, PhD, 1993
• Goran Lesaja (AMCS), PhD, 1996
• Mihai Anitescu (AMCS), PhD, 1997
• Iuliu Dan Coroian, PhD, 1997
• Rongqin Sheng, PhD, 1997
• Victor A. Nicholson, PhD, 1968
• Robert M. Dieffenbach, PhD, 1971
• Donald A. Myers, PhD, 1971
• Dale A. Schoenefeld, PhD, 1971
• Donald A. Van Cauwenberghe, PhD, 1972
• Marvin R. Van Wyk, PhD, 1972
• Michael A. Grajek, PhD, 1973
• Peter J. Slater, PhD, 1973
• Thomas J. Smith, PhD, 1974

H. Vernon Price

• Gerardus Vervoort, PhD, 1970
• Donald A. Happel, PhD, 1972
• Christian R. Hirsch, Jr., PhD, 1972

Florin Radulescu

• Marius Stefan, PhD, 2000
• Maria Grazia Viola, PhD, 2002
• Il Woo Cho, PhD, 2005
• Gabriel Picioroaga, PhD, 2005
• Yang Ho Choi (AMCS), PhD, 2007

Richard Randell

• Mark A. Kannowski, PhD, 1986
• Mathew T. Timm, PhD, 1989
• Kathryn Radloff, PhD, 1992
• Karen Smith, PhD, 1992
• Monica Meissen, PhD, 1997
• Cynthia McCabe, PhD, 1998
• Helen Schroeder, PhD, 2006
• Neil Nicholson, PhD, 2007
• Lucas Bennett, PhD, 2008
• Amanda Hager, PhD, 2010
• Kristopher Williams, PhD, 2011

Vincent Rogers

Samuel Brensinger (AMCS), PhD, 2020

Dennis Roseman

Jeffrey Boyle, PhD, 1984

Anthony Schaeffer

Blaise Montandon, PhD, 1972

Friedmar Schulz

Virginia Vera de Serio, PhD, 1989

Walter Seaman

Stephen Bean, PhD, 1996

Alberto Segre

• Sean Forman (AMCS), PhD, 2001
• Victoria Shimanovich (AMCS), PhD, 2006
• Patrick Rhomberg (AMCS), PhD, 2017
• Changki Kim (AMCS), PhD, 2003
• Jerome Pansera (AMCS), PhD, 2008

Jonathan Simon

• Wilton E. Clarke, PhD, 1975
• William Ortmeyer, PhD, 1982
• Chichen Tsau, PhD, 1983
• Arendal Magnhild Lien, PhD, 1984
• Keith Wolcott, PhD, 1986
• Pei-Yi Zhao, PhD, 1990
• Aaron Trautwein, PhD, 1995
• Eric Rawdon, PhD, 1997
• Jenelle McAtee, PhD, 2005
• William Hager, PhD, 2010

Jonathan Simon & Oguz Durumeric

Susan Brooks, PhD, 2013

David Stewart

• Jeongho Ahn, PhD, 2003
• Christopher Cartwright (AMCS), PhD, 2003
• Ricardo Ortiz-Rosado (AMCS), PhD, 2007
• Theodore Wendt, PhD, 2008
• Brian Gillispie (AMCS), PhD, 2009
• Mario Barela (AMCS), PhD, 2016
• Benjamin Dill (AMCS), PhD, 2016
• Cole Stiegler (AMCS), PhD, 2018
• Jared Grove (AMCS), PhD, 2022
• Michael Kratochvil (AMCS), PhD, 2022
• Violet Tiema (AMCS), PhD, 2022

Gerhard Strohmer

• Saib Othman, PhD, 1996
• Stephanie Schmidt (AMCS), PhD, 2010
• Dana Bates, PhD, 2016
• Jeffrey Landgren (AMCS), PhD, 2016

Keith Stroyan

• Vitor Neves, PhD, 1985
• Vesna Musicki-Kovacevic, PhD, 1992
• Bin Li (AMCS), PhD, 2013
• Fan Yang (AMCS), PhD, 2013

Barrett Thomas

• Silviya Valeva (AMCS), PhD, 2017
• Xinwei Chen (AMCS), PhD, 2021

Maggy Tomova

• Trenton Schirmer, PhD, 2012
• Katherine Benson, PhD, 2013
• Amanda Niedzialomski, PhD, 2013
• Colin Grove, PhD, 2016
• Daniel Rodman, PhD, 2017
• Jose Roman Aranda Cuevas, PhD, 2021
• Puttipong Pongtanapaisan, PhD, 2021

Maggy Tomova & Charles Frohman

Alexander Zupan, PhD, 2012

Tuong Ton-That

• Eric Leung, PhD, 1993
• Michael Howe, PhD, 1996
• Rob Aulwes (AMCS), PhD, 1999
• Thai-Duong Tran, PhD, 1999
• Dmitriy Khots, PhD, 2006

Julianna Tymoczko

• Abukuse Mbirika, PhD, 2010
• Erik Insko, PhD, 2012
• Nicholas Teff, PhD, 2013

Ezio Venturino

Seki Kim, PhD, 1995

• Robert John Gregorac, PhD, 1965
• Albert Dean Otto, PhD, 1965
• Burdete Carl Wheaton, PhD, 1965
• Roger Thomas Zipoy, PhD, 1965
• Richard A. Vandervelde, PhD, 1967
• Sister Cathleen Real, PhD, 1968
• Marjory J. Johnson, PhD, 1970
• David C. Rine, PhD, 1970
• Douglas L. Nelson, PhD, 1971

Paul Waltman

• Ronald C. Grimmer, PhD, 1967
• John W. Heidel, PhD, 1967
• Kenneth E. Swick, PhD, 1967
• Richard S. Schlunt, PhD, 1968
• Robert E. Fennell, PhD, 1969
• Sze-Bi Hsu, PhD, 1976
• Stephen J. Merrill, PhD, 1976
• Hal L. Smith, PhD, 1976
• William Grasman, PhD, 1977
• Karen Christine Beck, PhD, 1980
• Wei Li, PhD, 2001
• Sun-Sig Byun, PhD, 2003
• Gavin Waters, PhD, 2003
• Hun Kwon (AMCS), PhD, 2007
• Ko Woon Um, PhD, 2010
• Junjun Deng (AMCS), PhD, 2011
• Benjamin Galluzzo (AMCS), PhD, 2011
• Stephen Welch, PhD, 2012
• Fu Shuyang (AMCS), PhD, 2020
• Tao Wang (AMCS), PhD, 2020

Minli Bao (AMCS), PhD, 2017

Lihe Wang & Palle Jorgensen

Da Xu, PhD, 2010

Lihe Wang & Tong Li

Bryanna Petentler, PhD, 2023

Ying-Qing Wu

• Eun-Jung Youn, PhD, 2003
• Kathleen Reif, PhD, 2007
• HanQin Cai (AMCS), PhD, 2018
• Tianming Wang (AMCS), PhD, 2018
• Yang Yang (AMCS), PhD, 2018

Weiyu Xu & Jianfeng Cai

Suhui Liu, PhD, 2017

• Pi-Fang Hung (AMCS), PhD, 1994
• Steven Benson (AMCS), PhD, 1998
• Timothy Gillespie, PhD, 2011
• Kyle Czarnecki, PhD, 2016
• Nathan Salazar, PhD, 2016
• Paul Savala, PhD, 2016
• Huan Qin, PhD, 2017
• Curtis Balz, PhD, 2022
• William Tyler Reynolds, PhD, 2022
• Praneel Samanta, PhD, 2023

Yangbo Ye, Ge Wang & Shiying Zhao

Jiehua Zhu (AMCS), PhD, 2005

Yuan Wu (AMCS), PhD, 2010

Xiaoyi Zhang

• Kai Tsuruta (AMCS), PhD, 2012
• Kai Yang (AMCS), PhD, 2017
• Chuan Lu (AMCS), PhD, 2022
• Andrew Pensoneault (AMCS), PhD, 2023
• Yanqing Shen (AMCS), PhD, 2023

Advice and Resources for Mathematics Graduate Students

Month: April 2024

Opportunities to teach in lsa’s program for computing in the arts and sciences (pcas).

The director PCAS reached out asking me to advertise some interesting teaching opportunities for Math GSIs at Michigan. They are looking to hire three GSIs for three different new courses in computing in the Arts. This is a unique opportunity to expand your teaching portfolio and teach something different. Details with links to apply below.…

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Recipients of 2023-2024 Department of History Annual Awards announced

The Department of History is pleased to announce the winners of our 2023-2024 annual awards. These awards celebrate our faculty, lecturers, undergraduate, and graduate students to thank them for their dedicated service to our department. They also provide funding and scholarships for their research and education and honor the excellence of their work. We are grateful to the support of our donors for making these awards possible. 

Teaching Awards

Dr. Charles DeBenedetti Award for Teaching Excellence by a Teaching Assistant

• Chloe Parrella

George S. & Glady’s W. Queen Excellence in Teaching Award in History

• Marc Hertzman

Other Awards

Chair’s Award

• Alexandra Sundrasingh

Robert H. Bierma Scholarship for Superior Academic Merit in History (College of LAS)

• Marge Holohan
• Chrissy Kim
• Justin Wytmar

Adele M. Suslick Award for Historical Research

• Isabella Sauer
• Anna Sielaff

Undergraduate Awards and Honors

History Distinguished Service Award

• Devin Manley
• Julie Matuszewski

C. Ernest Dawn Undergraduate Research Travel Award

• Anthony Erkan

Jayne and Richard Burkhardt Scholarship for Outstanding Undergraduate Achievement

• Coralyn Johnson
• Rosette Pavkov
• Victoria Siek
• Noah Yeager

John and Judith Steinberg-Alfonsi Scholarship for Outstanding History Undergraduate and Academic Excellence

Martha Belle Barrett Scholarship for Undergraduate Academic Excellence

• Sasha Rushing

Michael Scher Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Paper

• Justin Wytmar: “Brahmins, Bayaderes, and Boulevards: The Representation of India on the French Musical Stage, 1582-1923”

Thomas A. Manning Memorial Scholarship:

Robert W. Johannsen Undergraduate US History Scholarship

• Katelyn Barbour
• James Perkovich

Walter N. Breymann Scholarship for Outstanding Undergraduate History Majors

• Rachel Mulick
• Marcia Szczybura

William and Virginia Waterman Scholarship in Academic Excellence

Winton U. Solberg Family Scholarship

• Colin Stanhope

Winton U. Solberg History Award

Winton U. Solberg Memorial Scholarship

• Joe Griffith

Graduate Awards

J. David Hoeveler Summer Research Scholarship

• Cade Meinel

Joseph Ward Swain Prize for Outstanding Seminar Paper

• Christopher Goodwin: “Racial Colonists in the Nazi East: Disabled Veterans and the Malleable Boundaries of Race, Masculinity, and Disability”

Robert McColley Graduate Student Research Fund Award

• Tabitha Cochran
• Leonardo E. Silva Ventura

Wilda M. Smith Scholarship

William and Virginia Waterman Scholarship

• Grace Eberhardt
• George Kumasenu
• Nathan Runels

Former Arrowhead offensive lineman is transferring to Wisconsin from Illinois

MADISON – Joey Okla didn't need long to make his decision.

Four days after capping off a visit to Wisconsin to attend meetings and practice, the graduate of Arrowhead High School announced that he plans to transfer to UW from Illinois.

Okla announced on April 9 he planned to enter the transfer portal and was at UW on Friday and Saturday. He was an all-state performer as a senior at Arrowhead in 2021, redshirted at Illinois in 2022 and played in one game last season.

Okla, 6-foot-2 and 320 pounds, has three seasons of eligibility remaining.

He is the second offensive lineman to commit to UW this month.

Tackle Leyton Nelson, who spent the last two seasons at Vanderbilt, announced Monday he plans to transfer to UW .

Nelson, 6-6 and 308, played for current UW line coach AJ Blazek at Vanderbilt. He played in one game (two plays) as a freshman in 2022 and played a total of 60 plays over 11 games last season. He has three seasons of eligibility remaining.