The EDGE Foundation is delighted to announce the 2025 Karen EDGE Fellow!
The Karen EDGE Fellowship Program was established with a generous gift from Karen Uhlenbeck on the occasion of her 2019 Abel Prize. The Fellowship is designed to support and enhance the research programs and collaborations of mid-career mathematicians who are members of an underrepresented minority group.
Reginald McGee
Reginald McGee earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Purdue University. Following his doctoral studies, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Mathematical Biosciences Institute at The Ohio State University. He is currently an associate professor of mathematics and statistics at Haverford College. His research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, and he has received national recognition, including being named a MAA-NAM Section Meeting Lecturer in 2024 and a MGB-SIAM Early Career Fellow in 2022. Prior to joining Haverford, he served as a mathematics faculty at the College of the Holy Cross, where he received the Inclusive Excellence Champion Award for Faculty in 2024.
Reginald’s research program focuses on computational biology. His work spans mathematical modeling and the analysis of complex data, and he often investigates the interplay between models and biomedical data. His primary scientific interest lies in blood diseases.
The Karen EDGE fellowship will support his ongoing collaboration with colleagues at Virginia Commonwealth University on predicting sickle cell disease crises. It will also enable him to visit institutes to learn recent quantitative methods that can advance the project, as well as to establish new collaborations. Additionally, the fellowship will support domestic and international travel, allowing him to present his work and actively participate in initiatives aimed at broadening participation in the mathematical community.