Undergraduate Degrees Congratulations to the following math majors who completed their degrees in Fall 2020 and Spring 2021! Fall 2020: Morgan Combs, Emily Cooley, Eric Crislip, Margaret Faust, Alicia Flowers, Jieun Gil, Miranda Hermes, Chase Holbrook, Alexander Jones, Ana Kilgore, Hanna Paz, Shuoang Shen, Erica Vano, Samuel Vickers and Cesar Villareal. Spring 2021: Ashton Akins, Sejun Bae, Michael Bergeron, Logan Bayer, Maxwell Booth, Grayson Britt, Mikayla Bryant, Joshua Christopher, Aaron Cofer, Nicholas Dasoveanu, Branton Dearmoun, Tianyuan Deng, Virginia Friend, Juliann Fuller, Hadar Gendellman, Emma Grondolsky, Faith Haas, Ansley Hardbeck, Kaitlin Higgins, Maitland Hood, Tianxu Huang, Xiaobo Jin, Anderson Kim, Bjorn Leicher, William Matray, Summer McDonald, Sejal Mistry, Nathan Morris, Jordan Newberry, Martin Nguyen, Faith Okenchi, Jackson Payan, Yumo Peng, Tongxin Qu and Syed Raza. Doctoral Degrees Four Ph.D. students are graduating this spring and summer. Congratulations to each of these students! Mentzelos Melistas, Reduction and Torsion Points of Abelian Varieties (Thesis advisor: Dino Lorenzini). Thomas Melistas, The Large Scale Geometry of Overtwisted Contact Forms (Thesis advisor: Mike Usher). Makoto Suwama, Two Topics in Algebra and Number Theory (Thesis advisor: Dino Lorenzini). In addition, one student will graduate this summer: Matthew Just, (Thesis advisor: Paul Pollack). A Graduation Celebration was held for our Math Department graduates from this year and last year on Friday, May 14th. We were so excited to be able to honor and celebrate our graduates after missing the opportunity last year!
