Alabama Eta Chapter Report

Institution: Troy University

Reporting Year: 2018-2019

Advisor: Kenneth Roblee

Advisor's Email Address: kroblee@troy.edu

Has There Been a Change in Chapter Advisor During the Past Year?: No

Permanent Faculty Correspondent: 

Permanent Faculty Correspondent's Email Address: 

Officers: President: Uttam Bhetuwal Vice-President: Faith Weber Secretary: Bikal Lamichhane Treasurer: Leanna Herring Social Media Coordinator: Nischal Subedi

Chapter Website: http://

Number of New Members: 28

Number of Continuing Members: 15

Activities: 1. We held our undergraduate mathematics conference, TROY MathFest, again this year. It was supported by conference grants from Pi Mu Epsilon and the National Science Foundation. 2. We had our annual tailgating tent for students and faculty before a football game.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present at the PME National Meeting this year? Yes

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduations? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences, etc.
1. Uttam Bhetuwal will attend graduate school at Brown University starting Fall 2019. He also won our "Pi Mu Epsilon Excellence in Leadership Award." 2. Adhiraj Roka will attend graduate school at Villanova University. 3. Nirajan Koirala will attend graduate school at Villanova University. 4. Madelynn Ebersole will attend graduate school at Florida State University. 5. Donovan Ebersole will attend graduate school at Florida State University. 6. David Farrar will attend graduate school at the University of Florida. 7. Nischal Subedi will attend graduate school at the University of Deleware.

If you were awarded a PME Lectureship, Conference, or Prize Grant within the past year, please briefly describe the results.
Thanks to a conference grant from Pi Mu Epsilon and from the NSF, we continued our TROY MathFest undergraduate mathematics conference. This was our 12th such conference, and our first that was on 2 days. For this year, we had about 110 participants. There were participants from 20 different institutions. There were 34 talks total, 38 of which were by undergraduate students. Our activities included the following: Talks by undergraduates (and 5 faculty), a student poster session, calculus competition with cash prizes for the first five places, graduate school information tables with recruiters,, and invited speakers Professors Madhuri Mulekar and David Leach.. Their talks were entitled "Data Science: Development and Future" and "Lights Out and Linear Algebra," respectively. Lunch and refreshments were provided for all participants.