Mohammed K A Kaabar (Mathematical Sciences) has been included in the 2025 Elsevier–Stanford list of the world’s top 2% scientists in the fields of General Mathematics and Applied Mathematics. The full dataset can be accessed at the Elsevier Digital Commons Data webpage. For your convenience, my name can be found in the…

On Aug. 12, Satish C. Bhatnagar (Mathematical Sciences) gave an hour-long talk (on Google Meet) on the Importance of American Ph.D. in Mathematics to over 100 students in the Division of Science of Central University of Assam, Tezpur (India), established in 1994.

Satish C. Bhatnagar (Mathematical Sciences) presented an audio presentation of a paper, "Rebuilding of Dismantled Math Communities," at the annual MathFest of the Mathematical Association of America, held at Sacramento, California, on Aug. 6-9, 2025.

Cynthia Tochukwu Nnolum (Mathematical Sciences) published a research article titled "Dynamics of Solutions to a Multi-patch Epidemic Model with a Saturation Incidence Mechanism," in the Journal of Mathematical Biology.  The paper analyzed the behavior of disease dynamics across multiple interconnected patches (regions), incorporating a…

Congratulations to the UNLV racquetball team who competed in Corporate Challenge on Thursday, April 10. They won 1st overall and 10 points for UNLV. Competitors were Adam Koebke (Mathematics) who won gold in men's singles, Venki Muthukumar (Electrical Engineering) and Sai Parsa (Computer Science) who won gold in men's doubles, and Erica Marti…

Kingsley Ukandu Rachidi Salako (Mathematical Sciences) presented part of his joint work with advisor Rachidi Salako. The paper, titled “New Spatial Patterns of Endemic Equilibria Set in SIS Epidemic Model: Effects of Susceptible Population Moment,” was presented at the AMS Sectional Meeting hosted by the University of Kansas in Lawrence.…

Satish C. Bhatnagar (Mathematical Sciences) presented a paper, "Primes and Pyramids: A Pedagogical Perspective," at the annual meeting of the South Eastern Section of the Mathematical Association of America on March 1, 2025. 

An-Pyng Sun (Social Work), Chih-Hsiang Ho (Mathematical Sciences), Daria J. Kuss (Nottingham Trent University), and Chad L. Cross (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) recently published an article, “The temporal stability of problematic gaming and gaming disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis,” in the journal Addictive Behaviors Reports…

Farhad Shokoohi (Mathematical Sciences) published a paper titled, "Data-Driven Identification of Early Cancer-Associated Genes via Penalized Trans-Dimensional Hidden Markov Models," in Biomolecules Journal. The paper proposes a new protocol and a case study for analyzing cancer epigenetic data. The proposed methodology is based on two of his…

Guangyu Zhao (Mathematical Sciences) published a research paper, "Sturm comparison for nonlocal equations," in Sao Paulo Journal of Mathematical Sciences.

Jichun Li (Mathematical Sciences) published a single authored paper in the top journal Computers & Mathematics with Applications (vol.172, 2024, pp.111-124). Here he proved one-order higher superconvergence for the time-dependent Maxwell's equations solved by arbitrary order H(curl) and H(div) basis functions on rectangular and cuboid elements…

Jichun Li (Mathematical Sciences) and his collaborators recently established a time-dependent Maxwell’s equation model for simulating wave propagation in hyperbolic metamaterials. They proposed effective numerical algorithms to demonstrate the applications for designing hyperbolic superlenses. The results are published in the Computational…