Texas Rho Chapter Report

Institution: Texas State University

Reporting Year: 2017-2018

Advisor: Piyush Shroff

Advisor's Email Address: pshroff@txstate.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: Christina Koehne Vice President: Esther Conrad Secretary: Ashraf Demian Treasurer: Joshua Rice Historian: Nathan Jones

Chapter Website: http://pmetexasrho.wp.txstate.edu/pi-mu-epsilon/

Number of New Members: 5

Number of Continuing Members: 23

Activities: In Fall semester, we had derivative bee at the undergraduate level. Competition was divided into two categories: 1) Business Calculus, Calculus for Life Sciences and Calculus 1. 2) Calculus 2 and above. Other activity was fundraiser. These was held jointly with Math Club. Officers and members from the both organization sold freshly grilled corn.

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

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.
Graduate School Acceptance: Nick Montana, University of Washington. PhD Program Acceptance: Esther Conrad and Joshua Rice, Iowa State University.

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