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The University of Connecticut Actuarial Program began in 1976. Today, the program has approximately 175 undergraduates, 40 master's students and 6 Ph.d. students in Actuarial Science.

The primary goal of our program is to provide students with a sound foundation in actuarial science and to prepare them for the examinations administered by the Society of Actuaries and the Casualty Actuarial Society, with the objective that each student passes at least two exams before graduating. ...more...



Announcements
  • Make-Up Final Exams will given Thursday, February 4 at 6:00 p.m. in MSB 315. Students need to sign up well in advance using the sign up sheet outside MSB 102, which also contains further details. In order to take a make-up, students need to have permission from the Office of Student Services & Advocacy.
  • The Society of Actuaries, the top professional organization of life actuaries in the United States, has recognized the department's Actuarial Science Program as a Center of Actuarial Excellence. (November 2009)
  • Family Honors Parents with Math Professorship: UConn Today published a feature about the Stuart and Joan Sidney Professorship in Mathematics endowed by their four children.
  • Math Major Forms are now online. New and current majors can use them to choose advisors and carry out other administrative tasks. (October, 2009)
  • Joseph Pomianowski, a Spring 2009 graduate with a double major in Molecular and Cell Biology (MCB) and Mathematics, has been awarded the Kosciuszko fellowship to support his graduate studies at Harvard.
    Joseph has also received the Harriet Irsay Scholarship from the American Institute of Polish Culture.
    Joseph will be doing a Master's degree in the History of Science. He came to this subject because of his interest in Stefan Banach, on whom he has already done a great deal of research. (July 2009)
  • Rich Bass has been awarded an NSF grant from the Probability Program for his proposal "Stochastic differential equations: potential theory and uniqueness". (July 2009)
  • Fabiana Cardetti, Tom deFranco (who has a joint appointment with the NEAG School of Education), and Chuck Vinsonhaler are the recipients of a $900,000 NSF grant jointly with Mike Alfano from the NEAG School of Education and Juliet Lee from the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology (MCB).

    The 5 year grant is the from the NSF Robert Noyce Scholarship Program. The purpose of the grant is to encourage math and science majors to go into teaching.