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The UND Mathematics Department has changed its name.  We are now the Department of Mathematics & Statistics. The name change helps highlight opportunities for students interested in statistics, but you can be assured that our department still offers virtually all of the courses in mathematics that it has offered in recent years.

Dr. Thanh Phat Vo began service as a tenure-track faculty member here in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics last fall.  Dr. Vo completed his Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan in 2024.  He had previously earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics Teacher Education from Ho Chi Minh City University of Education in Vietnam in 2018.  He served as a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Informatics at Ho Chi Minh City University of Education from October 2018 to September 2019.

Dr. Vo is an active researcher.  He writes, “My main research areas are nonsmooth optimization and variational analysis, focusing on both theoretical and numerical aspects with applications in machine learning and statistics.”  He goes on to say, “Variational Analysis is a powerful branch of applied mathematics that deals with nonsmooth phenomena in optimization, including equilibrium, control, perturbation, and approximation challenges in both linear and nonlinear systems.”  Dr. Vo has published numerous scholarly articles.  Three of his articles have recently been accepted for publication. 

Dr. Vo enjoys teaching classes.  He writes, “I am passionate about teaching graduate-level courses in analysis, including Introduction to Analysis, Modern Analysis, Numerical Analysis, and Topology, as well as applied mathematics courses like Optimization (with potential applications in machine learning and statistics), Mathematics of Finance, Mathematical Modeling, and Optimal Control. Dr. Vo grew up in the city of Quang Ngai in Vietnam, and his parents and younger sister still live in Vietnam.  Dr. Vo is currently single.  In his spare time, he enjoys swimming and cooking Vietnamese cuisine.

Photo: Taken at the Hebron Brick Company while Dr. Vo was on a tour of North Dakota with UND President Andrew Armacost and several new UND faculty members.

 

On March 14, 2024, UND Mathematics and Statistics Department alumni Danica (Belanus) Allard (M.S. 2012), Jeremiah Bartz (M.S. 2006), and Katrina (Nagel) Eberhart (M.S, 2007) gave a presentation to a group of inmates at the North Dakota State Penitentiary in Bismarck, North Dakota.  The presentation took place on Pi Day (March 14, 2024).  Pi Day is named after the number π.  As you may know, π = 3.14, after rounding.  Note the similarity between the number 3.14 and the date 3/14!  Teachers and students of mathematics across the U.S. celebrate Pi Day on March 14 each year.  Pi Day is a celebration of the number π and mathematics in general.

Dr. Bartz began the presentation by discussing graph theory.  He then had his students work on problems in graph theory.  After a short break, Mrs. Allard and Dr. Eberhart discussed cryptography (the science of encoding and decoding secret messages).  They then had the inmates engage in an interactive activity in which they (the inmates) decoded humorous messages.  Mrs. Allard notes that the students (the inmates) seemed to enjoy the presentations and the activities.

In the months following the March 14 presentation, Mrs. Allard and Dr. Eberhart have continued to visit the inmates at the Bismarck State Penitentiary.  Every other week, either Mrs. Allard or Dr. Eberhart conducts a “math circle” activity for students at the prison.

The 2024 Pi Day presentation and visit by Mrs. Allard and Drs. Bartz and Eberhart was made possible in part by the Prison Mathematics Project.  One of the main purposes of the Prison Mathematics Project is to use interest in mathematics to help prison inmates rebuild their lives and refrain from criminal activities.  Further information on the Prison Mathematics Project website. 

Dr. Bartz is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics here at UND.  Mrs. Allard and Dr. Eberhart are Associate Professors of Mathematics at Bismarck State College in Bismarck.

Mrs. Allard has written an interesting article concerning the March 14, 2024, presentation.  To see this article, visit the Web site for the Prison Mathematics Project which we mentioned above.  Then follow the link to “Read our newsletters.”  Finally, open the Fall 2024 newsletter and go to page 17 of this newsletter.  Much of the above information concerning the Pi Day presentation came from Mrs. Allard’s article.

Nick Holmes graduated with his M.S. degree in Mathematics in May of 2024.  He completed an independent study report entitled “Hurwitz Zeta Function and L-Functions” under the guidance of his adviser, Dr. Anthony Bevelacqua.  Nick is currently attending North Dakota State University, where he is pursuing a Ph.D. in Mathematics.

Sumaiya completed her M.S. degree in Mathematics here at UND in December of 2024.  Her advisor was Dr. Ryan Zerr.  The title of Sumaiya’s independent study report was “An examination of Hilbert Spaces.”  Sumaiya is starting a job as an adviser for students.  She plans to continue on to earn a Ph.D. degree when the opportunity arises.

Gloria Antwi-Boasiako is from the city of Kumasi, Ghana, in West Africa.  She completed her bachelor’s degree in Mathematics at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi.  Gloria writes, “One interesting thing about me is that I find harmony in the intersection of math and music.  My passion for mathematics surprisingly fuels my love for music, revealing the hidden rhythms and patterns that govern both art forms.”

Grace Fatoyinbo is from Omuo-Ekiti, Nigeria.  She studied at Ekiti State University, in Nigeria, where she completed a bachelor’s degree with a major in Mathematics and a minor in Physics.

Loran Elton is from New Town, North Dakota.  He recently completed his bachelor’s degree in Mathematics here at UND.  For hobbies, Loran enjoys programming projects.  He writes, “I enjoy finding ways to implement what I’ve learned from math courses into personal programming projects.  The most recent adventure has been taking [two-dimensional] slices of Tessarines¹ under recursive mappings with domain coloring.”

1.  According to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, a tessarine is a certain type of hypercomplex number.

Caleb Larson joined the Mathematics and Statistics Department in the fall of 2024 and now serves as the Associate Director of UND’s Math Active Learning Lab (the MALL).  He holds an M.S. degree in Mathematics from North Dakota State University (NDSU).  He is originally from Reeder, North Dakota.  He is married to Aloysia Larson, who also serves here in the UND Mathematics Department.  When he is not working, Mr. Larson enjoys playing card games and board games with friends.  Caleb and Aloysia also enjoy exploring the various walking paths in Grand Forks with their dogs Buddy and Dobby.

Dr. Seth Wolbert also joined our department in the fall of 2024.  Dr. Wolbert is originally from Kalamazoo, Michigan.  He completed his Ph.D. degree in Mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  In his spare time, Dr. Wolbert enjoys hiking with his dog, cooking, and learning Spanish.

Andrew Abraham is originally from St. Cloud, Minnesota.  He also joined the Department of Mathematics and Statistics in the fall of 2024.  He completed his B.S. degree in Mathematics at UND here in Grand Forks and his M.S. degree in Mathematics at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana.  Mr. Abraham currently lives in Bozeman and teaches online classes for UND.  Mr. Abraham writes, “If I am not teaching math, you can find me out on the dance floor teaching country swing dancing.  My other hobbies include hiking, playing guitar, and drawing.  I have [a] 2-year-old border collie named Euler who is ball-obsessed and full of energy.”

Adewale Lukman, Abiola Owolabi, Olukunmi Akanni, Charles Kporxah, and Rasha Farghali have published the article “Robust Enhanced Ridge-Type Estimation for the Poisson Regression Models:  Application to English League Football Data” in the International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems.

Rasha Farghali, Adewale Lukman, and Ayodeji Ogunleye have published “Enhancing model predictions through the fusion of Stein estimator and principal component regression” in the Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation.

The article “Powers of two as sums of two balancing numbers,” by Jeremiah Bartz, Bruce Dearden, Joel Iiams, and Julia Peterson, has appeared in the book Combinatorics, graph theory and computing.  This book is part of the Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics.

Jerry Myhre (Ph.B., 1965) is a retired United Airlines captain.  Jerry has three children and five grandchildren.  Jerry and his wife Karen live at 7 Edgewood Drive, Geneseo, IL 61254.  You can reach Jerry by email at hiflier320@gmail.com.

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics has offered scholarships to several students for the 2024-2025 academic year.  The students were as follows:

• Mataya Anderson (Patrick Durkin Memorial Scholarship)
• Tunde Alesinloye and Tobias Tamakloe (Paul Bruce Waterside Enterprises Scholarship)
• Joshua Dorsam (Brent Christensen Mathematics Scholarship)
• Vu Nguyen (James Rue Mathematics Scholarship)
• Braedon Manecke, Jonathon Hasbargen, Curtis Sande, and Jack Kern (Jay O. & Marie Bjerkaas Math Scholarship)
• Amanda Thompson, Audrey Rubish, Casia Steinhaus, Matthew Johnson, and Tay-Lin Nitschke Durben (Ronald C. and Ann C. Bzoch Memorial Scholarship)
• Liam Turman (Deann and Lee Christianson Scholarship)
• Noah Cowley (David Uherka Mathematics Scholarship)
• Joshua Dorsam (Paige Plagge Memorial Math Scholarship)
• Jacob Stanley (Joseph A. Guzek Mathematics Scholarship)
• Morgan Blair (Diana Wells Scholarship)
• Jonathon Hasbargen (Judy Ann Utton Memorial Scholarship)
• UND’s College of Arts and Sciences has awarded the John and Lyle Buchwitz Scholarship to Tunde Alesinloye

Professor Thomas L. Richards retired from service here in the Mathematics and Statistics Department at the end of the Spring 2024 semester.  Dr. Richards received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Washington State University in 1991 and began service in the UND Mathematics Department in the fall of the same year.  At the time of his retirement, he had attained the rank of Associate Professor.

Shortly after Dr. Richards retired, the Math Log editor sent him some questions by email.  Some of the questions follow, along with slightly edited versions of Dr. Richards’s answers.

Did you have any especially close friends here?

I liked everyone I worked with, but I suppose I was closest to Tom Gilsdorf.  We shared an office at Washington State University as graduate students and had a habit in grad school of getting together occasionally to drink beer, eat pizza, and watch the most outrageously bad movies--usually bad horror movies--that we could lay our hands on at the video store.  (This was way back in the olden days when there were stores at which you could rent VHS tapes.)  The goal was to get movies that were so bad that they were funny, and it was not hard to succeed at this goal.  In fact, when I came out to interview for the job here at UND, Tom and I did that very thing in my motel room the night before I gave my talk for the department.  I should have been reviewing my notes and getting a good night’s sleep instead, I suppose.  I am still in regular contact with Tom.

I also spent a lot of time with Jerry Metzger, either working on math problems or just talking and laughing it up.  I played chess with him for a while, and had a record of something like one win and fifty losses.  I really enjoyed that one win, though.  We stayed in touch after he retired.  We had a number of common interests, such as old movies, trying to make sense of quantum mechanics, especially the double-slit experiment¹, and boasting of our speed in solving the Sudoku puzzle in the New York Times.

Did you work on any joint projects of any kind with any other faculty members here?

I spent a great deal of time with Jerry Metzger working on the problems presented in the MAA² journals (the American Mathematical Monthly, the Mathematics Magazine, and the College Mathematics Journal).  We sometimes made use of the Bob Tomper name.  (Editor’s note:  “Bob Tomper” was the name of a fictitious student.  Some UND Mathematics Department faculty have occasionally used this name as a pseudonym in certain contexts.)  We also solved a problem that he had heard on the radio show “Car Talk” and wrote up and published a paper based on some mathematical by-products of that solution.

Did you do any work-related traveling while you were here?

I went to a number of sectional meetings of the MAA and AMS¹ and a few national meetings in such places as Baltimore, San Francisco, and Washington D.C.  I also made a big trip to Krakow, Poland, a couple of years after I was hired, to visit Jerzy Ombach, who was a professor at Jagiellonian University (Copernicus is an alumnus of this university).  Jerzy visited WSU² in my first year there, and I took a grad course in ordinary differential equations and a seminar in dynamical systems from him, so he was a big influence for me, and a very nice man.

Do you have any interesting memories of the Flood of 1997 ³?

We live fairly near the river, so our neighborhood flooded right away.  I remember that we had meat loaf for dinner the night we had to evacuate, and my dark sense of humor led me to program the CD player to play the following songs from the Talking Heads album Stop Making Sense as we ate:  Swamp, Burning Down the House, Life During Wartime, and Take Me to the River.  My wife Meredith didn’t much like Talking Heads for a few years after that.

We evacuated to Boise, Idaho, where both Meredith and I had family.  I spent a good amount of time at my undergraduate alma mater, The College of Idaho, in Caldwell, Idaho, while we were out there, visiting old professors.  They were kind enough to set me up with an email account, so I could stay in touch with people.  I even guest lectured one day in a differential equations course while I was there.

How has the Mathematics Department changed during your years here?

There was what I believe was an old-fashioned ditto machine⁴ in the Mathematics office for running off exams and such when I started, and it was still in use by some older faculty.  We had chalkboards instead of whiteboards when I started, which I generally preferred.  Online teaching was not a thing when I started, because the Internet (or at least the Web) was not yet really a thing.  (I still remember going down to the Math Lab in the basement of Witmer Hall⁵ sometime in the 1990s and using Netscape Navigator for the first time to see what exactly this Internet thing was that everyone was talking about.)

Computation was much harder to get done when I started; I got Mathematica ⁶ soon after I started working here, but computers were so much slower and memory was so limited back then that it was not remotely as capable as it is now.

Lunchtime was much more of a social event than it is now:  the back room [in the Mathematics and Statistics Department office] was pretty full every day at lunchtime and it seemed that most everyone ate lunch there.  We also had a TV in that room, which was tuned to the local news each day at noon.  In fact, there was generally more socializing throughout the day in the back room in the olden days.

Do you have any advice for current faculty, students, or alumni of the Mathematics Department?

Keep your nose to the grindstone.  And keep your nose clean.  Because who wants a dirty grindstone?

 

1. The AMS is the American Mathematical Society.
2. WSU stands for Washington State University.
3. In the spring of 1997, the Red River of the North flooded in Grand Forks. Most of the city had to be evacuated as a result.
4. For information on ditto machines, see en.wikipedia.org and search on “spirit duplicator.”
5. The UND Mathematics and Statistics Department is located in Witmer Hall on the UND campus.
6. Mathematica is a computer algebra system which one can use to perform algebraic computations, to plot graphs of functions, and to do many other things.

Tiffany Findlay currently serves as a lawyer at the Ohnstad Twichell law firm office in Hillsboro, North Dakota.  Tiffany completed her bachelor’s degree in Mathematics here at UND in 2019 and her J.D. degree at the University of North Dakota School of Law in 2022.  Last summer, the Math Log editor met with Tiffany, and we discussed Tiffany’s background and her legal practice.

Tiffany grew up on a farm near the town of Herman, Minnesota.  She began her undergraduate studies here at UND in the fall of 2016.  Tiffany says that the people at UND were very nice.  It was easy for students to form study groups and study together.  Tiffany appreciated the wide variety of study paths that were available here.  When she graduated with her B.S. degree in 2019, she completed a major in Mathematics and a minor in Psychology.  She also earned a certificate in the Norwegian language.  Tiffany’s favorite Mathematics courses were Calculus III, statistics, and History of Mathematics.

I asked Tiffany if her undergraduate studies in Mathematics helped her gain admission to the UND School of Law.  She replied by telling an interesting story about her experiences in the Mathematics Capstone course here at UND.  Several years ago, the Mathematics Department established a “Senior Capstone” course.  All students completing an undergraduate major in Mathematics at UND must now complete this Capstone course.  Each student in the course must conduct a special project.  In this project, the student investigates some particular topic of mathematical interest and prepares a formal scholarly paper on the topic.  Each student must also present a scholarly talk on his or her paper.

Tiffany’s project in the Capstone course involved the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT).  The LSAT is a test that many students in the U.S. take prior to gaining admission to a law school.  In her project, Tiffany gathered statistical data concerning students’ LSAT scores. She compared the LSAT scores of mathematics majors with the LSAT scores of students majoring in other disciplines.  She found that the average LSAT scores of mathematics majors were higher than the average LSAT scores for students in most other disciplines.

Law School

In the fall of 2019, Tiffany enrolled as a student in the University of North Dakota School of Law.  She had a heavy course load which often required her to do a significant amount of reading.  She often had to read approximately one hundred pages of material each day.  Much of this material involved legal cases.  When Tiffany attended class after the readings, the law professor would often select a student at random and ask the student to summarize and analyze one of the cases described in the readings.  The selected student would do so as the other students listened.

In March of 2020, the COVID-19 virus was spreading across the U.S. and around the world.  After UND’s spring break that year, all UND instruction switched to the online format.  Tiffany remembers attending law classes remotely through live Zoom meetings.  Her professors continued to select students at random and ask them to summarize and analyze legal cases during class.  This time, however, the students listened and watched through the Zoom meeting as the selected student explained and analyzed the case.  Tiffany was able to continue her legal education during the COVID-19 epidemic, but she says that she is glad that she was able to attend traditional classes for the first few months of her law school studies.

First-year law students at UND take a special writing skills course for law students.  Tiffany did well in this course, and in her second and third years of law school, she served as a Teaching Assistant for a special writing program at the UND School of Law.  As a Teaching Assistant, she helped less-experienced law students with questions and issues concerning legal writing.  The experience Tiffany gained from this position was very valuable to her.  She was not paid for her work as a Teaching Assistant, but she received one hour of academic credit for the first semester of her work as a Teaching Assistant.

During her years as a law student at UND, Tiffany served on the boards of the Rural Practice Association and the Environmental Law Society.  These groups are student organizations here at UND.  Again, Tiffany was not paid for her work with these organizations, but her service provided valuable experience.  The Rural Practice Association arranged meetings in which practicing lawyers and judges would come to UND and consult with current UND law students.  These lawyers and judges came from many different parts of North Dakota and Minnesota.  In some cases, a panel of visiting lawyers would meet with the students.  The visiting lawyers would sometimes describe areas of legal practice in which lawyers could specialize.  Many of the visiting lawyers came from law firms, and they would often describe the particular types of externships¹ and job positions they could offer to students.  The meetings between the students and the lawyers helped the students establish contacts with some of the lawyers, and Tiffany feels that these contacts were very helpful to her later on in her career.

Throughout much of her undergraduate and law school studies, Tiffany worked at several jobs outside UND.  After her first year as an undergraduate student, Tiffany began work at a Ruby Tuesday restaurant.  She later worked at the front desk of a hotel.  In the summer of 2020, during the COVID-19 epidemic, Tiffany worked at the courthouse in Devil’s Lake, North Dakota.  Some of Tiffany’s courthouse work was remote, and some was actually at the courthouse in Devil’s Lake.  In the summer of 2021, Tiffany worked at a law firm in Fergus Falls, Minnesota.  This was an in-person position.  Tiffany actually went in to the office each day.  Late in the fall of 2021, while she was still a law student, Tiffany began work at a law firm in East Grand Forks, Minnesota.  She continued at this job into the spring of 2022.

The Bar Exam

Tiffany graduated from the UND School of Law with a J.D. degree in May of 2022.  In the summer of 2022, she traveled to the Minneapolis-St. Paul area to take the Minnesota state bar exam.  The exam was a two-day four-part exam.  Tiffany spent eight hours on the exam on each of the two days of the exam.  Many prospective lawyers fail the exam, but Tiffany passed it on her first attempt.  By passing the exam, Tiffany was able to obtain a license to practice law in Minnesota.  She obtained this license in October of 2022.  By applying to transfer her bar exam score, Tiffany received a license to practice law in North Dakota in February of 2023.

While still a law student, Tiffany had received an employment offer from the Ohnstad Twichell law firm.  She began service in the firm’s office in Hillsboro, North Dakota, in September of 2022.  Hillsboro is a small town near Interstate Highway 29 about midway between Grand Forks and Fargo, North Dakota.

In her legal work, Tiffany specializes in estate planning and probate, as well as real estate law.  She helps people write their wills.  She sometimes creates trusts which people can use along with a will to pass their assets on to their heirs at the time of death.  Tiffany also prepares documents which a person can use to grant power of attorney² to his or her children or to other people.

When a person dies, a probate³ may need to be commenced with a court, where a judge would appoint a person as personal representative to manage the decedent’s⁴ affairs.  Tiffany files pleading documents with the judge to request the appointment of a specific person to serve as the personal representative.  The personal representative is given legal authority to pay any last expenses and transfer the decedent’s property to the decedent’s heirs, as named in decedent’s will or by state law.  In formal proceedings or in special circumstances, the judge will require a hearing to decide whether the named personal representative should be appointed. Tiffany has been lucky so far.  Up to now, she has only had to attend two or three formal hearings.  Each of these hearings was a remote hearing.  Tiffany appeared at the hearing through Zoom.

In Tiffany’s real estate work, she often drafts deeds to transfer the title of a piece of real property, i.e. real estate property, to a new owner.  She then files the deeds with the appropriate county office.  In the past, she has mailed the deeds to the county office, but some counties are beginning to use online systems which allow Tiffany to transfer the title directly from the computer in her office.

Tiffany also examines real property abstracts.  A property abstract is a document which describes the history of a particular piece of real property.  Tiffany looks for liens or claims on the property.  This can be important when someone wishes to buy or sell the property.

These are only a few examples of the work that Tiffany does.  She says that much of her work involves agriculture in some way.  In the course of her work, Tiffany occasionally travels to the Ohnstad Twichell offices in the towns of West Fargo and Page in eastern North Dakota.

Mathematics and Legal Practice

Tiffany says that her legal studies and legal practice have used a significant amount of mathematics.  She has encountered many situations in which one must perform numerical calculations using mathematical formulas.  She specifically mentioned computations involving principle and interest, estate tax liability, and tax exclusion amounts.  Tiffany also says that her past mathematical studies have helped her to develop more organized and logical ways of thinking, and that this has helped her in her law studies and law practice.

Tiffany spends a large amount of time at her desk working on paperwork, but she also spends much time talking with clients in person.  In some cases, her clients are grieving over the recent loss of a loved one.  At other times, clients are making some very important decisions.  Tiffany needs to make sure that her clients understand their options and the consequences of the decisions they are making.  Tiffany knows that her words and actions can have a huge impact on her clients’ lives.

Tiffany says that her legal practice is going very well.  She enjoys her work, and she enjoys the way that her job allows her to help other people.  But Tiffany also says that she has to continually learn new things.  To retain her law licenses, she must read about recent court rulings and changes in the laws.  She also attends seminars on these topics.

Tiffany and her husband Jesse live in Hillsboro.  In her spare time, Tiffany enjoys puzzles and baking.  She also enjoys visiting with family and friends at her family’s lakeshore property near the town of Fergus Falls, Minnesota.

I asked Tiffany if she had any words of wisdom for alumni and current students.  She responded by urging students and alumni to meet people in their areas of interest.  She feels that her previous contacts with practicing lawyers helped her find her present job at Ohnstad Twichell.  Tiffany also stresses the importance of continuing to learn.  In her work as a lawyer, she needs to know many things.  She could not learn all of these things during her law school studies, but law school helped her get started.  In the years since her law school studies, she has continued to learn.

We would like to thank Tiffany for sharing her stories and thoughts with us, and we wish her continued success in her service as a lawyer!

 

1. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, an extern is “a person associated with but not officially residing in an institution.” One might compare an externship with an internship.
2. A person with power of attorney for another person can make business decisions on behalf of that person. This can be very important for elderly people who may soon be unable to manage their own business affairs.
3. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, a probate is “the process of legally establishing the validity of a will.”
4. The term “decedent” is a legal term for a deceased person.

The following persons are responsible for monetary gifts to the UND Alumni Association & Foundation specifically designated for the improvement of the Department of Mathematics.  We thank you for your generosity!

Department Support

• Gregory Stolt
• Derek & Amy Schulte
• Corinne Roberta Jacobson
• Sandra & Richard Paur
• John Clynch
• Patricia & Gordon Henry
• Rodney & Marlys Kjellberg
• Gail S. Nelson
• Julie Getty
• Nadjah Larson
• Daniel G. Hinnenkamp
• Rodney McKinney
• Elizabeth Jessen
• Michael Kalina

Deann and Lee Christianson Scholarship

• Drs. Deann & Lee Christianson

Joseph A. Guzek Mathematics Scholarship

• Joeseph & Joyann Guzek

Judy Ann Utton Memorial Scholarship

• Bruce Anderson

Paul Bruce Waterside Enterprises Scholarship

• Paul V. Bruce

David Uherka Mathematics Scholarship

• Dr. & Mrs. David Uherka

Brent Christensen Mathematics Scholarship

• Brent M. Christensen

Ronald C. and Ann C. Bzoch Memorial Scholarship

• Maryanne & Russ Romero
• Dr. L. Thomas Ramsey

Patrick Durkin Memorial Scholarship

• Mark Gonitzke
• Christopher Smith
• Marilyn Holweger
• Leslie Durkin

Jay O. and Marie Bjerkaas Math Scholarship

• Forrest & Susan Bjerkaas

If you would like to make a monetary contribution to UND, to the UND Mathematics & Statistics Department, or to one of our scholarship funds, visit the UND Alumni Association & Foundation.