Institution: Colorado College

Reporting Year: 2025-2026

Advisor: Beth Malmskog

Advisor's Email Address: bmalmskog@coloradocollege.edu

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

Permanent Faculty Correspondent: Molly Moran

Permanent Faculty Correspondent's Email Address: mmoran@coloradocollge.edu

Officers: 

Chapter Website: http://

Number of New Members: 8

Number of Continuing Members: 19

Activities: We had two big events this year. In the Fall, students across campus tried to escape the haunted math classrooms in the annual math escape room. In the Spring, the annual pi day event was bigger and better than ever! The event began with a snowy pi-k run (the one day we had snow all spring!), followed by tie dying t-shirts, lots of pie eating, and concluding with a pie-a-professor/paraprofessional event!

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present at the PME National Meeting this year? In 2026, we had a strong CC undergraduate presence at JMM. PME members Alex Aronie (’26), Abigail Burnham (’26), Christian Figueroa (’27), Dakota Hinman (’26), and Zoe Harrington ('25) all presented on their senior thesis work and/or summer research. We hope to have at least two to three PME students attend JMM in 2027.

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.

If you were awarded a PME Lectureship, Conference, or Prize Grant within the past year, please briefly describe the results.
Colorado Epsilon received a conference grant to support the Pikes Peak Regional Undergraduate Mathematics Conference (PPRUMC). The 23rd Annual PPRUMC was hosted by Colorado College (on Saturday, February 21, 2026. This year’s event attracted 90 participants, including representatives from over 15 different schools from the Rocky Mountain Region (including some high schools), for a day of mathematical presentations and fun. The full conference schedule is attached to the end of the report. Dr. Beth Malmskog delivered the keynote address To Err is Unavoidable, to Correct is Mathematical: Fixing Communications Failure with Error-Correcting Codes. The program also included a panel entitled What’s Next: Beyond an Undergraduate Mathematics Degree featuring four former CC graduates in industry, graduate school, and education. The remainder of this one-day conference featured 17 contributed talks presented by undergraduates and high school students from the region.