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St. Jerome’s University and the University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Mathematics are pleased to announce that we have reached an agreement that will provide for the consolidation of mathematics at the University of Waterloo. This agreement is effective May 1, 2014. As part of this agreement the faculty members in mathematics at St. Jerome's will join their colleagues in the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo.

As the five-year partnership between Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing (CEMC) and Youth Care Foundation (YCF) winds up, YCF has recently opened a new secondary school near Serekunda in The Gambia. Students from grades 9-12 in this West African community will now have more options to continue their studies.

Applied Math Professor Chris Bauch and co-author Alison Galvani of the Yale School of Public Health recently published "Social factors in epidemiology" in Science.

They found that disease control efforts can be improved using mathematical modelling to understand the interplay between social and biological contagions.

Welcome math and computing teachers!

Troy Vasiga and J.P. Pretti have wrapped up their time with "Team Canada" at the 25th International Olympiad in Informatics in Brisbane, Australia.

Approximately 80 countries and 300 students participated. Contestants competed by writing computer programs to solve challenging algorithmic tasks on two five-hour days of competition.

Congratulations to Professors Yu-Ru Liu and Dan Wolczuk, winners of the 2013 Faculty of Mathematics Award for Distinction in Teaching!

Professor Liu has achieved consistently excellent student evaluation scores both in first-year core courses and in the fourth-year/graduate Pure Mathematics course on Fields and Galois Theory. Her students have high praise for the preparation, delivery and effectiveness of her teaching.

From today's UWaterloo Daily Bulletin with photos by Anna Beard.

Congratulations to all!

Today, Mathematics graduates crunch the numbers...

1,044 mathematics students will cross the stage today in two ceremonies as convocation continues.

The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) and the University of Waterloo announced funding for 18 new projects across the University. This federal government funding helps pay for equipment, building additions and other infrastructure associated with research.

The University media release focuses on CFI-funded research projects that will investigate new techniques of analyzing big data.