The big faculty news is Dr. Ghosh's tenure approval. We are all so proud of him. Dr. Spencer continues as department chair, as well as chairing the Advisory Council for General Studies. Sister Ann Mason continues to hold us all together with her positive attitude and encyclopedic knowledge of alumni. The department gave her a copy of Zane Grey’s Red-haired Outfielder for her birthday. Professor Shari Lewis has done significant parts of her doctoral work while teaching for us full-time. Once she gets that degree, she intends to take over and get this department whipped into shape. Dr. McDaniel is working with a publisher for his geometry book.
Spring 2011’s outstanding senior, Andrew Borgman, not only passed two actuarial exams but he also scored a graduate position in the Van Andel Institute. Not finance, nor math got him the spot: it was his programming!
Spring 2010's outstanding seniors both got free rides to graduate school. Laura Shuman chose Washington State and Ember Clark chose the University of Michigan, since moving to Central Michigan. Our department had another success on the first actuarial exam when Donat Tran got his passing score. Nate Poirier continues his graduate work at Western Michigan University.
Jane Kraemer's Pi Mu Epsilon Journal article, "Fibonacci numbers count chord diagrams" appeared in the Spring 2011 issue. That issue offered a Calculus Art Contest, which the Fall 2011 MS 122 class entered and won. Their image is in the Fall 2011 issue. Dr. McDaniel’s "Beyond mainstreaming" appeared in the Spring 2011 issue of the CUR Quarterly. Check out Jillian Russo's article in the Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Math Journal. Nate Poirier, class of 2011, has his paper, "Alhazen's billiard problem in hyperbolic geometry," set to appear in Berkeley's fine math journal, Involve. Jane, Jillian and Nate were Mohler-Thompson scholars at Aquinas College, 2008, 2009, 2010, respectively. One of our 2011 summer researchers, Megan Ternes, is waiting on the editors at Rose-Hulman to decide on her article. |
