Pennsylvania Beta
Bucknell University
2006-2007 Chapter Report

 

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Emily Dryden

President: Brittany Hoffman

Vice-President: Luke McGuire

Secretary-Treasurer: Caitlyn Yeager, Fall

Secretary-Treasurer: Elizabeth Skubak, Spring

Number of New Members Inducted:

7

Number of Continuing Members:

11

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1) Ice cream social

2) Posting "Pi Facts" around the department for Pi day

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in San Jose, California?

No.

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. :

Members of PME, but not of our chapter, who developed interesting projectsin our Geometrical Visualization in Virtual Environments REU presented theirwork at Mathfest in Knoxville, August 2006. Beth Skubak, one of our new inductees, was recently named a Goldwater Scholar.

Emily Perl is going on to medical school at Tufts University, and Kelley Kidwell will study biostatistics at the Un

Greg Mokodean is planning to enter law school in the fall.