Institution: Marshall University

Reporting Year: 2018-2019

Advisor: Dr, Michael Otunuga

Advisor's Email Address: otunuga@marshall.edu

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

Permanent Faculty Correspondent: 

Permanent Faculty Correspondent's Email Address: 

Officers: Fall 2018 President: Chloe' Marcum (marcum248@marshall.edu) Vice President: Anna Davis (davis922@marshall.edu) Secretary: Faith Hensley (hensley203@marshall.edu) Treasurer: Erica Burns (burns169@marshall.edu) Spring 2019 President: Chloe' Marcum (marcum248@marshall.edu) Vice President: Erica Burns (burns169@marshall.edu) Secretary: Faith Hensley (hensley203@marshall.edu) Treasurer: Jordyn Bryson (bryson11@marshall.edu)

Chapter Website: http://http://www.marshall.edu/pme/index.html

Number of New Members: 9

Number of Continuing Members: 2

Activities: On campus, in partnership with our university's Thundering Nerds Math Club and Neuroscience Club, we hosted a Pi Day celebration. We had Pi-Approximation activities, free pie, and pied professors in the face! It was a wonderful event and got a lot of people talking about pi and mathematics. As well, we held a club induction ceremony. We inducted a record number of new members this November, including one professor. We invited our families and other mathematics department professors. Refreshments were provided as well! It was a great ceremony!

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

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.
Several of our members were able to go to the Joint Mathematics Meeting in Baltimore, MD this January. We had students present in the Undergraduate Poster Session as well as give a 10-15 minute talk. Chloe' Marcum gave a talk on knot theory research, and Faith Hensley presented a poster on using a differential analyzer as a teaching tool for calculus students. Faith Hensley also plans to present her upcoming research from a mathematics REU that she will attend this summer at Grand Valley State University in Michigan on Extremal Numbrix Puzzles at MathFest 2019 in Cincinnati, Ohio. We also had many students receive competitive scholarships this year. Erica Burns received a Boren Scholarship which will allow her to study abroad Spring 2020 at Kansai Gaidai University in Japan. Jordyn Bryson received a Maier writing award. Faith Hensley received an Outstanding Poster award at JMM and an Outstanding Senior in Mathematics award. Chloe' Marcum received a mathematics dept scholarship.

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