Math Department News

We hope you're sitting down when you read this: we gave the math suite a face-lift. The old texts have been recycled and the room has been painted light green. We thought if we designed the space for easier access, it would make Friday's Game Day even more fun than last year. We also turned a storage room into a study which anyone can use. Here are photos of the space as it looks August 31:

As of July 1, 2012, the Department of Mathematics has co-chairs: Professors Shari Lewis and Michael McDaniel. McDaniel is the default and Shari is the assessment and personnel specialist. Professors Jasho Ghosh, Joseph Spencer and Sr. Ann Mason, O.P. continue as full-time professors.

We ended June 2012 with 67 declared math majors: approximately one out of every 25 full-time students! Maybe we have such beefy numbers because our graduates do well. Laura Shuman is now a math professor in the Pittsburgh Community College system. Andrew Borgman continues his work at the Van Andel Institute. Jeff Moore is a computer specialist at Alticor. Kyle Teeples, Laura Lebeau, Rachel Dubie, and many more recent graduates have scored teaching jobs all over the country, plus there's Trevor Barton in Belize! Meaghan Heires went from grad school success to a nifty job in Wisconsin using her math skills. Ian Hart, last year's Math Club president, is studying math at Western Michigan. And Paul Wood is just about to become a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries. Many more of our graduates are doing great work and we'd like to get their faces in here, so communicate!

Two of our undergraduates scored summer research grants. Marissa Saladin was in an REU at MSU. Noah Davis had a Mohler-Thompson grant at Aquinas College. Both have research papers submitted! How cool would it be to get two of our undergraduates published at the same time?