Pennsylvania Mu Chapter Report

Institution: University of Scranton

Reporting Year: 2017-2018

Advisor: Thomas Shimkus

Advisor's Email Address: thomas.shimkus@scranton.edu

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

Permanent Faculty Correspondent: 

Permanent Faculty Correspondent's Email Address: 

Officers: Sara Myers - President

Chapter Website: http://

Number of New Members: 8

Number of Continuing Members: 5

Activities: Chapter members assisted with the definite integral portion of the Eleventh Annual Integration Bee. Chapter members assisted with the indefinite integral portion of the Eleventh Annual Integration Bee.

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.
Our several successes from this year include a student attending University of Nebraska-Lincoln on an assistantship, a student attending Cornell University in a fully funded six year program in Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, a student attending Johns Hopkins University in a program in Applied Physics, a student attending Temple University School of Medicine, a student accepted to Wilkes University for a master's program in Mathematics, with applications in Computer Science and Statistics, and a student accepted to a summer 2018 research program in neuroscience at MIT.

If you were awarded a PME Lectureship, Conference, or Prize Grant within the past year, please briefly describe the results.
Money from a Pi Mu Epsilon Prize Grant was used to sponsor half of the cash prizes for The University of Scranton's Department of Mathematics's Eleventh Annual Integration Bee on April 25th, 2018. The format for the Integration Bee is similar to a spelling bee, however, instead of spelling words, participants find antiderivatives of functions of a single real variable. The five finalists in the contest received $25 each and the overall champion received an additional $75.