Barry Minemyer (PhD 2013), Associate Professor at Commonwealth University, was awarded a 2025 AMS-Simons Research Enhancement Grant for Primarily Undergraduate Institution Faculty. Minemyer completed his dissertation “Isometric Embeddings of Polyhedra” under the supervision of Pedro Ontaneda.

About the grant, Minemyer writes: “As a faculty member at a Primarily Undergraduate Institution (PUI) with a high teaching load, it is difficult to stay on top of current research breakthroughs. There is no weekly seminar, and it is difficult to find the time amongst my teaching schedule to read the most recent publications. This AMS-Simons Research Enhancement Grant for PUI faculty will allow me to take research trips that I otherwise would not have had funding for. This funding will aid in me attending conferences, giving talks, discussing mathematical ideas with other researchers, and staying up-to-date on the current research being conducted in my field.”

Minemyer will present at the Binghamton Geometry/Topology Seminar on February 5, 2026.