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Rodica Curtu Named New Mathematical Sciences Chair

Rodica Curtu stands outdoors on a sunny day in front of the walking bridge between the Van Pelt and Opie Library and Rekhi Hall.
Rodica Curtu joins the College of Sciences and Arts as the new mathematical sciences department chair.

Michigan Tech’s College of Sciences and Arts welcomes Rodica Curtu as the new chair of the Department of Mathematical Sciences, effective July 1. Curtu comes to Michigan Tech from the University of Iowa, where she recently brought the math graduate program into the Internship Network in the Mathematical Sciences and served as faculty senate president.

A Day in the Life of a Michigan Tech Math Student: Solving Problems, Building Community—and Eating Soup!

Discrete mathematics student McCoy Ziehl gestures to a math problem on a white board in the Math Learning Center while talking to another student.
Michigan Tech math students explore everything from discrete mathematics and ice skating to statistics and soup parties.

Discrete mathematics student McCoy Ziehl and fellow Michigan Tech Class of 2025 member Emily Ruf, who is double-majoring in statistics and discrete mathematics, share an inside look at what MTU math majors do in and out of the classroom.