Alabama Eta Chapter Report

Institution: Troy University

Reporting Year: 2020-2021

Advisor: Ken Roblee

Advisor's Email Address: kroblee@troy.edu

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

Permanent Faculty Correspondent: Ken Roblee

Permanent Faculty Correspondent's Email Address: kroblee@troy.edu

Officers: Caroline Howell, President Jahnavi Raval, Vice-President Kaitlyn Baker, Secretary Yuting Peng, Treasurer

Chapter Website: http://

Number of New Members: 6

Number of Continuing Members: 16

Activities: Virtual Math Trivia Contest via Teams TROY MathFest 2021 via Teams

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present at the PME National Meeting this year? No

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.
Caroline Howell will be attending the University of Colorado for graduate school. Caroline Howell was the recipient of our Pi Mu Epsilon Excellence in Leadership Award. Yuting Peng was the recipient of our Virgil Collins Mathematics Award selected by faculty from the group of top graduating mathematics majors. Kyle Edwards was the recipient of our James O'Neal Mathematics Education Award selected by faculty from the group of top graduating students from our Mathematics Education Program. Adhiraj Roka graduated from Villanova University with a Master's degree in Applied Statistics. Uttam Bhetuwal graduate from Brown University with a Master's degree in Applied Statistics. Tabitha Turner was an author for a paper presentation at the 52nd Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing. Yuting Peng, Quang Nam Dang, Caroline Howell, and Olivia Dabbert all gave presentations at TROY MathFest 2021. Bikal Lamichhane is a graduate student at Villanova University in computer science. Saurabh Bhandari is a graduate student at the University of Florida in statistics. Aashish Kafle is a Ph.D. Student at Rice University in Physics. Heetae Lee has passed the first three actuarial exams. Chase Allbright is a graduate student at Troy University in Computer Science. Sangharsha Bhatta is a graduate student in Applied Mathematics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

If you were awarded a PME Lectureship, Conference, or Prize Grant within the past year, please briefly describe the results.
Pi Mu Epsilon Conference grant supported our 2021 TROY MathFest.