JX
Jiao Xu
  • Mathematics
  • Class of 2017
  • Allentown, Pa.

Jiao Xu Awarded Copper Chambliss Student Academic Achievement Award

2017 Apr 21

Jiao Xu, of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China, has been awarded a Copper Chambliss Student Academic Achievement Award from Kutztown University. It is the highest honor awarded by the university.

XU is graduating in May with a degree in mathematics. She received the award for her successfully completed research projects. She has presented her research, which was mainly focused on probabilities, and her findings at the 2015 Fall Meeting of the East Pennsylvania and Delaware Section of the Mathematics Association of America and the Third Annual Larry Mugridge Symposium on Undergraduate Mathematics Research in spring 2016, where she won a gold medal.

Xu also received a Carole and Ray Neag Undergraduate Award for her research, a Department of Mathematics Scholarship and has been inducted into the Kappa Mu Epsilon National Honorary Mathematics Society.

After graduating, Xu plans to be an actuarial scientist.