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COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Published Book

Mathematics and Statistics

David Watkins.
Watkins
Jared Aurentz
Aurentz

David Watkins, emeritus professor, and Jared L. Aurentz (PhD ’14), mathematics and statistics, and two colleagues received the Outstanding Paper Prize at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) annual meeting for their paper “Fast and Backward Stable Computation of Roots of Polynomials,” published in SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, Volume 36, Issue 3 (2015). They also co-authored with three colleagues Core-Chasing Algorithms for the Eigenvalue Problem (SIAM).

Sociology

Jennifer ShermanJennifer Sherman, professor, sociology, authored “‘Not Allowed to Inherit My Kingdom’: Amenity Development and Social Inequality in the Rural West” in Rural Sociology; and “‘Stress I don’t Need’: Gender Expectations and Relationship Struggles amongst the Poor” in Journal of Marriage and Family. She also coedited Rural Poverty in the United States (Columbia University Press).