News and Events

The Department of Mathematics has been sending out a weekly newsletter since 2007. Most of the past newsletters are stored in the department newsletter archive maintained by its editor, Prof. Sankar Sitaraman.

Department of Mathematics newsletter archive

Departmental News and Events

September 28, 2023

The Howard mathematics department is very excited to host the Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) on April 6-7, 2024. Highlights of the Howard AMS meeting include over 40 Special Sessions, three Invited Addresses, and the Einstein Public Lecture in Mathematics. The Invited Addresses will be delivered by Ryan Hynd (University of Maryland), Jinyoung Park (New York University), and Jian Song (Rutgers University). The Einstein Public Lecture will be delivered by Talitha Washington (Clark Atlanta University), formerly a Howard math faculty member.

Category: Conferences, Research

September 22, 2023

We are excited to announce the renewal of Howard University SIAM Student Chapter, dedicated to promoting industrial and applied mathematics on our campus. It will provide a platform for Howard students to engage with each other, with faculty, and with the larger mathematical community. Our SIAM chapter brings together students from various disciplines, encouraging interdisciplinary collaboration that reaches beyond mathematics.

Category: Scholarship

Poster for HU Math-Bio Workshop April 23 2022

March 31, 2022

Howard University will host a Math-Bio workshop on Mitigation of Future Epidemics co-sponsored by the Department of Defense and organized by Professors Katharine Gurski, Joon Ha, Yeona Kang, and Abdul-Aziz Yakubu of the Howard math department.

Category: Conferences

November 7, 2021

Howard University will host a Math-Bio workshop on Wound Healing co-sponsored by the Department of Defense and organized by Professors Katharine Gurski, Joon Ha, Yeona Kang, and Abdul-Aziz Yakubu of the Howard math department.

Category: Conferences

May 18, 2020

Dr. Talitha Washington, Howard associate professor of mathematics and NSF program director, received the National Science Foundation 2020 Director’s Award for Superior Accomplishment.

Category: Awards

May 5, 2020

Dr. Katharine Gurski is the recent recipient of two grants: one from NSF to develop models of the spread of HIV, and the other from CURM (Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics) that sponsors undergraduate research on that subject.

Category: Grants, Research

August 27, 2019

Howard University will host a workshop on Diversity in Data Science co-sponsored by the Statistics and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) and co-organized by Professor Abdul-Aziz Yakubu of the Howard math department.

Category: Conferences

July 19, 2019

Professor Emeritus James Donaldson, a former Chair of the Department of Mathematics and former Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Howard, received the 2019 Mathematics Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement from the University of Illinois.

Category: Awards

July 15, 2019

David Harold Blackwell (1919 – 2010) was an American statistician and mathematician who made significant contributions to game theory, probability theory, information theory, and Bayesian statistics.

Category: Research

December 19, 2018

Congratulations to Talitha Washington, on her prestigious appointment by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as the Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) Program Director for the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) program.

Category: Research