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Department of Mathematical Sciences

Director: Jodie Novak, Ph.D.

Location: Ross Hall 2239

Telephone: 970-351-2820

Website: www.unco.edu/nhs/mathematical-sciences/

Faculty: Anton Dzhamay, Ph.D.; Nathaniel Eldredge, Ph.D.; Nancy Geisendorfer, M.A.; Joshua T. Guerin, Ph.D.; Christopher Harris, Ph.D.; Kristin Kang, Ph.D.; Gulden Karakok, Ph.D.; Elizabeth (Betsy) Kersey, Ph.D.; Oscar Levin, Ph.D.; M. Hammad Mazhar, Ph.D.; Nathaniel G. Miller, Ph.D.; Katherine Morrison, Ph.D.; Jodie Novak, Ph.D.; Robert A. Powers, Ed.D.; Lindsay Reiten, Ph.D.; Jocelyn Rios, Ph.D.; Angela Steele, M.A.

Emeritus Faculty: Dean E. Allison, Ph.D.; William Blubaugh, Ph.D., William W. Bosch, Ph.D.; Ricardo Diaz, Ph.D.; Donald D. Elliott, Ph.D.; Jeffrey D. Farmer, Ph.D.; Richard M. Grassl, Ph.D.; Samuel R. Houston, Ph.D.; Steven C. Leth, Ph.D.; William D. Popejoy, Ed.D.; Donald L. Schmidt, Ph.D.; Terry A. Scott, Ph.D.; Donald T. Searls, Ph.D.; Igor Szczyrba, Ph.D.; Robert A. Tolar, Ph.D.

Course(s) Offered (Prefix):

• CS — Computer Science
• MATH — Mathematics
• MED — Mathematics Education
• STAT — Statistics

Program(s) Offered:

• Bachelors Degrees
  • Mathematics B.S. 
    • Computer Science Concentration
    • Licensure: Middle School Mathematics (Grades 6-8)
    • Pure and Applied Mathematical Sciences Concentration
    • Licensure: Mathematics (Grades 7-12)
    • Statistics and Data Science Concentration
  • Computer Science B.S.
  • Statistics B.S.
• Minors
  • Applied Statistics
  • Computer Science
  • Mathematics: Liberal Arts
  • Mathematics: Secondary Mathematics Teaching, Grades 7-12
• Undergraduate Certificates
  • Computer Programming
  • Data Analytics

Mathematics and related areas have been important human endeavors since ancient times. Mathematics is a discipline with its own questions, methods and content. It has also been used as a tool to explain the natural world for centuries. Mathematics, statistics and computer science have become essential to almost every other discipline such as the natural sciences, the social sciences, business, and economics.

The Department of Mathematical Sciences has faculty in mathematics, mathematics education, statistics and computer science. We offer a variety of undergraduate and graduate programs in these areas. In addition, courses and minors that we offer can be used as important components of a variety of other programs across the university.