The Department of Mathematics congratulates Professor Barbara Prinari on winning the prestigious 2025 Fulbright Scholar Award. The research award supports Prinari's travel to Greece to study wave phenomena. The main goal of the collaborative research that Prinari will conduct at the University of Ioannina will be to develop a rigorous direct perturbation theory for the study of dark-bright solitons under physically relevant perturbations (e.g., dissipation, linear and nonlinear loss).

The Department of Mathematics is pleased to announce that Alia Spaker has been named Outstanding Senior 2026 by UB College of Arts and Sciences. Spaker, of Honeoye Falls, NY, graduates summa cum laude with a bachelor of science in mathematics. She is a Summer Math Scholar and recipient of the Harriet Montague Award. Spaker completed an honors thesis in analytic number theory under the supervision of Professor Jakob Streipel. She served as a teaching assistant for the Department of Mathematics and participated in the Directed Reading Program for three semesters. In the fall, Spaker will pursue a doctorate in pure mathematics at the University of Connecticut. An event honoring the Outstanding Seniors was held on April 20, 2026, hosted by CAS.

Michael Reyf entered UB at age 16 with more than 30 credits earned through Advanced Placement (AP) exams. With those credits, along with consistently taking 20 to 21 credits per semester, he was able to complete his undergraduate degree in four semesters. There’s also an interesting family connection with graduating college early. Aleksandr Reyf, Michael’s father, graduated from New York University’s College of Arts and Sciences in May 2000 at the age of 18, making him the youngest graduate in the class of 2000. Read the story by Vicky Santos.

The Department of Mathematics is pleased to announce that Alexander Bivolcic has been awarded the University at Buffalo's 2025 Excellence in Teaching Award for Graduate Student Teaching Assistants.