Department News

Spring 2025

• Prof. Celia Cruz earned the Teacher of the Year Award

Fall 2024

• On December 12th, Pi Mu Epsilon inducted the following students into the society: 

  Ghadeer	Alzoukari
  Maha	Alzoukari
  Alina	Arias
  Lyrick	Batista
  Nushrat	Chowdhurry
  Lizbeth	Colon
  Pulak	Das
  Arnaldo	Fajardo
  Bernardo	Falcao
  Huzaifa	Farooqui
  Karyn	Fernandez
  Rafael	Gonzalez
  Delgardo	Hutchinson
  Benhur	Jesudas
  Ruiqiu Ye	Liu
  Omar	Maldanado
  Amal	Miaoui-Bouazzouny
  Yobany	Montero
  Fatima	Nasyr
  Madeline	Ortega
  Wily	Ouandaogo
  Harry	Pacheco
  Miguel	Peres
  Onandi	Skeen

• On Saturday December 7th, Prof. Quattromani led a team of 5 students who took the Putnam Exam, the student who took the exam were: Michael Weng, Bryan Sanchez, Bernardo Falcao, Nidhi Noble, and Al Ez Arab Faqir
• On December 4th, Prof. Bell led a colloquium talk about a geometric space can be gained by studying loops in the space, which can be given an algebraic structure by the fundamental group in topology.
• A student-led colloquium talk was given by Yahaira Torres and Brian Sanchez who worked with Prof. Allen on Compactness of Sequences of Warped Product Length Spaces on October 23rd
• On Monday October 7th, The Archimedes Club (TAC) held its fall Kick Back event to mark the beginning of the 2024-2025 academic year
• Math majors Yahaira Torres, Brian Sanchezm and Prof. Brian Allen publish a research paper:
  Allen, B., Sanchez, B., & Torres, Y. (2024). Compactness of Sequences of Warped Product Length Spaces. arXiv.Org.
• Lehman Alumnus and MS3 tutor Caleb Adjei publishes report. 
  Adjei, C. (2024). Analyzing HIV/AIDS Trends and Disparities in the Bronx: A Comparative Study with NYC Boroughs. CUNY Academic Works.
• Lehman Alumna and former MS3 tutor Eliana Checo Genao publishes report. 
  Institute, M. S., & Checo-Genaoa, E. (2024). Socioeconomic inequalities between the Bronx and other counties in New York City. CUNY Academic Works.
• The The Archimedes Club first female president elected. Eboard consisted of President Alina Arias, VP Michael Weng, Treasurer Kelvin Martinez, Secretary Nidhi Noble

Spring 2024

• 2024 Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) 2024 fellowship. The AWM recognizes Professor Sormani, "For utilizing every opportunity to open pathways to mathematics for more women and students by creating and maintaining online access to advice, mathematical resources, and information about women mathematicians; for organizing the “Inspiring Talks by Mathematicians” lecture series featuring under-represented speakers, and for her dedicated and active contributions to the AWM."
• The The Archimedes Club hosts 2 colloquium talks, one by University of Oklahoma's Dr. Ricardo A. E. Mendes on the topic  "Symmetry, matrix groups, and orbit spaces" and the other talk by Smith College's Dr. Geremías Polanco on the topic of " Numbers… and Patterns… and Games… and Greed"
• On May 8th, Prof. Quattromani revived the Pi Mu Epsilon honor society' Tau chapter at Lehman College and held its induction ceremony. The following 10 students were inducted: Michael Weng, Ina Lee, Caleb Adjei, Ana Leonardo, Aly Zuniga, Ubaydul Sami, Zahidul Zahin, Eliana Checo Genao, Yahaira Torres, and Neena Noble
• On May 15th, Mathematics major Ina Lee was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. 
• On May 28th, 13 Mathematics majors received departmental honors at the department's second annual Honors Ceremony. The ceremony was headlined by Prof. Robert Schneiderman's talk titled "Topology, Jazz, and real life"

Fall 2023

•  The Department welcomes Prof. William Quattromani as a Lecturer for the department.
• The Archimedes Club is founded as the official mathematics club of the department by students: Caleb Adjei -President, Michael Weng - Vice-President, Rafael Gonzalez -Treasurer, Samantha Mesa - Secretary, and Rafael Gonzalez Castillo -Faculty Advisor.
• The Archimedes Club and Prof. Bettiol invite University of Pennsylvania's Dr. Ryan Hynd for its Inaugural Colloquium talk titled "The Blaschke-Lebesgue Theorem Revisited"

Spring 2023

• Adjunct Lecturer James "Jimmy" Gaine is awarded the Adjunct of the Year award. 
• The Department of Mathematics hosts its first ever Honors Ceremony for students receiving departmental honors and awards. This event was headlined by Prof. Melvyn Nathanson's talk titled "Unsolved problems about 1, 2, and 3"