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Chyba Wins Section Teaching Award

Monique Chyba won the 2023 MAA Golden Section’s Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics Award. The award was presented at the 2023 Golden Section Meeting held at Santa Rosa Junior College, on February 25, 2023.

Since joining the faculty at Mānoa in 2002, Dr. Monique Chyba’s classroom instruction, place-based pedagogy, student mentoring,
and community outreach initiatives have impressed her students and colleagues.

“She not only shines individually through her clear and engaging style but also has worked to make substantive changes in the teaching infrastructure at the University of Hawai‘i. Her teaching often extends beyond the classroom through community engagement…(and) in using placebased knowledge to reform the quantitative reasoning curriculum.” — A colleague of Prof. Chyba

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Past MAA teaching awards for our department members:

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Stimulating STEM education on Maui

Giving back to Maui keiki was at the heart of an educational trip to the Valley Isle by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Department of Mathematics faculty members and graduate students.

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Jack Johnson playing a game with a young participant.

Professor Monique Chyba, Associate Professor Yuriy Mileyko and Assistant Professor Chuang Xu, with graduate students Alan Tong and Sam Glickman, visited Nāpili Noho, a community based emergency distribution hub at Nāpili Park that is helping those affected by the devastating Lahaina wildfire. They conducted math activities during a Christmas carnival-style event held on December 16.

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Ninth and 10th graders learning about graph theory.

Prior to their visit to West Maui, the UH Mānoa team interacted with about 40 high school students (grades 9–11) at UH Maui College. The students are part of TRiO Upward Bound, an engaging educational program that prepares low-income, first-generation high school students for college. The Maui students learned about graph theory, which is the study of graphs, that has cutting-edge applications such as social and traffic networks, optimal routing for emergency response, and molecular epidemiology.

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Assistant Professor Chuang Xu teaching Upward Bound students about the Fleury’s algorithm.

 

This effort is part of a RAPID grant from the National Science Foundation on trauma-informed STEM education. Chyba and Mileyko are co-principal investigators on the grant

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Erman’s invited address at Joint Meetings

Assistant Professor Daniel Erman will be giving a prestigious AMS Invited Address at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Francisco in January 2024. There will also be an AMS Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (associated with Invited Address by Daniel Erman).

Thursday January 4, 2024, 2:15 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
AMS Invited Address
Organizers:
Michelle Ann Manes, American Institute of Mathematics
Introduction by:
David Eisenbud, MSRI
From Hilbert to Mirror Symmetry
Room 207, The Moscone Center
Daniel Erman*, University of Hawaii

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