Savannah, GA - Mulatu Lemma, PhD,
is being recognized by Continental Who’s Who as a Pinnacle Professional in the
field of mathematics as a Distinguished Professor and chair of mathematics of
Mathematics with Savannah State University.
A native of Ethiopia, Dr. Lemma
has been in the field of teaching for 30 years, working in his current position
as a Mathematics Professor with Savannah State University for 25 years. He
wanted to be a teacher since he was in elementary school and started teaching mathematics
at SSU while earning his Ph.D. in pure mathematics at Kent State University.
Implementing innovative teaching
strategies, Dr. Lemma is known in the Mathematics community for his research
activities. He introduced the Mulatu numbers, named after him, an integral
sequence of numbers with distinct mathematical properties and patterns
comparable to the Fibonacci and Lucas series. He worked for over three years
investigating the numbers and produced more than 13 theorems. Up-to-date he published publishing 103
articles on peer higher level reviewed journals. With his students also involved in the
research, they were able to present their findings at regional and national
conferences. His methods have also garnered himself honors such as the 2010 SSU
Distinguished Faculty award and the 2012 university system of Georgia Board of
regents’ teaching excellence award for regional and state university faculty
members. In 2013 he was named Georgia Professor of the year. He was also listed as the most awarded professors
in the state of Georgia in 2015.
Dr. Mulatu Lemma understands that
every committed student can learn math but not the same day or by the same
method. He challenges his students to live and study with the same
single-minded determination he uses to crack equations, encouraging them to
rise and meet his challenge, and they do. He refuses to let his students fear
what they don’t understand.
