Congratulations to Dr. Daniela Beckelhymer E20! Daniela successfully defended her dissertation "Dynamical Systems Analysis of Arctic Sea Ice Loss Using a Daily Energy Balance Model" and earned her PhD in Mathematics from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. In the fall, Amber will begin her position as the AMS Congressional Fellow for 2026-2027 on Capitol Hill.  [...]

Congratulations to Dr. Alyssa Hu E18! In August 2025, Amber successfully defended her dissertation "Using Data to Inform Computational Thinking and Program Evaluation of an Undergraduate Statistics Curriculum" and earned her PhD in Statistics from Pennsylvania State University in December 2025. Alyssa is now a Senior Teaching Fellow at Monash University in Australia!

Congratulations to Dr. Amber Young E20! Amber successfully defended her dissertation "Mathematical Models of Disease Dynamics: A Deterministic and Stochastic Framework" and earned her PhD in Mathematics from the University of Tennessee. In the fall, Amber will begin her position as Assistant Professor in the Mathematics Department at Spelman College. We're excited for this new [...]

Congratulations to Dr. Haley Colgate Kottler E20! Haley successfully defended her dissertation "A Proxy-Based Approach for Unmeasured Confounding, and Other Latent Variable Problems" and earned her PhD in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Visit Haley's website to learn more about her academic journey.

Congratulations to Dr. Laura Zinnel E21! Laura successfully defended her dissertation "Deep Learning and Level Set Methods for Traumatic Brain Injury Detection and Outcome Prediction" and earned her PhD in Mathematics and Neuroscience from Iowa State University.

Congratulations to Kathryn E20! Kathryn successfully defended her dissertation "Signal Processing on Cayley and Nearly Cayley Graphs" and earned her PhD in Mathematics from the University of Delaware. This upcoming Fall, Dr. Beck will join Tufts University as a Norbert Wiener Postdoctoral Fellow. Visit her website to learn more about her journey.

Congratulations to Dr. Martínez Alberga! ✨ Sofía successfully defended her dissertation "Coalgebraic Models for Equivariant Homotopy Types" and earned her PhD in Mathematics from Purdue University. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stonehill College. We're excited to follow her journey! 💖 Visit her website: https://sites.google.com/view/sofiamartinezalberga/home

Congratulations, Dr. Irby! 🥳 Skylyn successfully defended her dissertation "Investigating an Institution's STEM Retention Program Participants' Sense of Belonging in Mathematics" and earned her PhD in Mathematics from The University of Alabama. We're honored to have been part of Skylyn's journey and look forward to seeing the impact she'll continue to make on our STEM [...]

Congratulations to Dr. Whitfield! 🥳 Brandis Whitfield earned her PhD from Temple University. This upcoming fall, Brandis will be an RTG postdoc in the Geometry, Group Actions and Dynamics research group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Through this position, she will continue to explore her passion for geometric group theory and low-dimensional geometric topology. Visit [...]