YSU student Ashley Orr of Columbiana, Ohio, honored at MathFest 2013

2013 Aug 26

Ashley Orr of Columbiana, Ohio, a Mathematics and Statistics major at Youngstown State University, was part of a team of YSU students that won a record six awards at the 2013 MathFest competition in Hartford, Conn., earlier this month.

This year's YSU team broke the record of five awards set in 2005 and 2006, also by teams from YSU. No other school has won more than three awards at any MathFest.

Ashley won an Award for Excellence for a project titled, "Fourier and Wavelet Analysis: Extracting the Buisness Cycle."

"We are very proud of the performance of all of our students," said George Yates, YSU associate professor of Mathematics and Statistics. "They continue a tradition of being outstanding ambassadors for YSU, the STEM College and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics."

MathFest is the name for the annual summer meeting of the Mathematical Association of America and Pi Mu Epsilon.