Mathematics & Statistics

A team of University of New Mexico undergraduate students earned top recognition at the 2026 Southwestern Undergraduate Mathematics Research Conference (SUnMaRC), held April 17–19 at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Ariz.

The second and final round of the 2025-2026 UNM-PNM Statewide High School Mathematics Contest was held in the SMLC building at UNM recently.

Faculty, researchers and students from The University of New Mexico’s Department of Mathematics and Statistics represented New Mexico at MathSciOnTheHill, a national advocacy event focused on federal support for the mathematical sciences, held Jan. 8 on...

A total of 449 students from 35 schools across New Mexico took part in the first round of the 2025–2026 UNM-PNM Statewide High School Mathematics Contest, held recently at 17 testing sites across the state.

More than 90 middle school students from across New Mexico gathered at the University of New Mexico (UNM) on Saturday for the first-ever New Mexico Math Meet (NM3), an in-person, team-based math competition. The event was directed by Sean Choi, a New...

Three Lobos, Alex Knigge, Anthony Languit, and Tanisha Medha are among the 2025-2026 Goldwater Scholars who were selected from a pool of 1,350 college sophomores and juniors nominated by 445 academic institutions. Founded in recognition of U.S. Senator...

The University of New Mexico hosts Carnegie Mellon University Professor Po-Shen Loh, who will deliver two special events Feb. 7-8 as part of the UNM-PNM Math Contest. Loh is a social entrepreneur and inventor, working across the spectrum of mathematics,...

What do a politician, and a mathematician have in common? They both aim to solve the world’s problems. This is exactly what University of New Mexico alumnus Gerald “Jerry” McNerney represents. As a former congressman with a Ph.D. in mathematics, McNerney...

University of New Mexico alumna Raven Delfina Otero-Symphony has her eyes on the skies and is hoping others will join in her interest in space research. Otero-Symphony has developed a leadership and accessibility project to make space development and...

A University of New Mexico grad student is looking ahead after winning a prestigious national fellowship. David Vargas, a UNM Ph.D. student in applied mathematics, was announced as the recipient of Sandia National Laboratories ‘John von Neumann...