Bryant Bugna earned a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics and an M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Central Missouri. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he also serves as a Graduate Teaching Assistant.

Master’s Thesis Title: Bifurcation curves for a weak Allee growth model with density-dependent and density-independent emigration on the boundary

Publication: Analysis of bifurcation diagrams for positive solutions for classes of landscape ecological models (2025)

Blake Ricketson earned a B.S. in both Computer Science & Mathematics from the University of Central Missouri. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Missouri at Columbia, where he also serves as a Graduate Teaching Assistant.

Project title: On the structure of positive steady states for an ecological model

Publication: A bifurcation result for an ecological model via a quadrature method (2024)

Loren Baker earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) in Economics from the University of Central Missouri. He currently serves as the lead banker for Central Bank in Warrensburg.

Project title: Reversed Sigma-shaped bifurcation curves for superlinear two-point boundary value problems

Manuscript submitted: Reversed Sigma-shaped bifurcation curves for superlinear two-point boundary value problems (2026)