Department News and Events

Congratulations Dr. Sanders!

Dr. Rebecca Sanders has been awarded the prestigious Rev. John P. Raynor, S.J., Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence in recognition of her excellence in teaching and mentorship.

Teaching Excellence Award

Congratulations to Megan Murphy for winning the 2026 Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Award for Instructor of Record.

Schmitt Fellowship

Congratulations to Mobina Pourmoshir for being awarded Marquette's Schmitt Fellowship.

Faculty Research Awards

Dr. Elaine Spiller and four collaborators have received an NSF grant for $197,844 for their project “Planning: CHIRRP: Increasing resilience to fire through prefire assessments of postfire flow hazards: Co-producing solutions with communities.”

Dr. Jay Pantone and three collaborators have received an NSF research grant for $749,996 for their project "AI-HELP: Artificial Intelligence for Humanizing and Enhancing the Learning of Proofs."

Congratulations to Dr. Greg Ongie for receiving Marquette University's Way Klingler Early Career award!

Recent News 
Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 Departmental Awards!
Sophia Abel
Outstanding Statistics Senior Award
Joey Falcus
Outstanding Mathematics Senior Award
Justice Milhoan
Outstanding Data Science Senior Award
Jack Redfern
Miriam Connellan Mathematics Education Award

Congratulations to graduates that have earned their Ph.D. in Computational Mathematical and Statistical Sciences! Pictured are Joey Lyon, John Bodenschatz and Thomas Shomer.

A team of graduate students from our department won first place in the Dream Machine Hackathon hosted by Discovery World. Congratulations to Praful, Ethan, Vanessa, Clayton, and Josh!!

Marquette's 2025 Putnam Math Competition team consisted of Conor Kaefer, David Mathu, Daniel Matz, Gregory Occhiogrosso, and Disha Patil and was led by Dr. Wim Ruitenburg. David scored 21 points and ranked in the top 17 percent from North America, and Daniel scored 13 points, ranking in the top quarter.