North Dakota Alpha North Dakota State University Chapter Report

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: James Olsen

President: Dan Ingebretson

Vice President: Aaron Feickert

Secretary: Songjiao Chen

Number of New Members Inducted:

12

Number of Continuing Members:

18

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the 2009 PME national meeting at MathFest in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania?

Yet Undecided

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates, for example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences?

One student accepted to Carnegie Mellon graduate school One student employed by Department of Defense One student employed by Lost Alamos National Lab

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

James Sutherland visited and presented a lecture on group theory and some mathematics history.