New Jersey Nu Chapter Report

Institution: Ramapo College of New Jersey

Reporting Year: 2013-2014

Advisor: Katarzyna Kowal

Advisor's Email Address: kkowal@ramapo.edu

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

Permanent Faculty Correspondent: 

Permanent Faculty Correspondent's Email Address: kkowal@ramapo.edu

Officers: Kaitlyn Reilly - President and Treasurer. Joseph Nitti - Vice President. Jessica Smith - Secretary

Chapter Website: http://http://pages.ramapo.edu/~kkowal/Ramapo/AvailableAtRamapo/PiMuEpsilon.htm

Number of New Members: 5

Number of Continuing Members: 54

Activities: 1) The chapter co-sponsored an award-winning mathematics-related play "Truth Values. One Girl's Romp Through M.I.T.'s Male Math Maze", that was brought to campus. The play was well attended. Chapter members, mathematics majors, and other campus community members were present. 2) Chapter members participated as contestants in the New Jersey Undergraduate Mathematics Competition.

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.
Joseph Nitti was accepted to the Ph.D. program in mathematics at Lehigh University. He will be attending the program while being a teaching assistant there. He presented an undergraduate research paper at the Garden State Mathematics Undergraduate Conference this year.

If you were awarded a PME Lectureship, Conference, or Prize Grant within the past year, please briefly describe the results.