Massachusetts Gamma Chapter Report

Institution: Bridgewater State University

Reporting Year: 2023-2024

Advisor: Andrew Miller

Advisor's Email Address: a11miller@bridgew.edu

Has There Been a Change in Chapter Advisor During the Past Year?: 

Permanent Faculty Correspondent: 

Permanent Faculty Correspondent's Email Address: 

Officers: 

Chapter Website: http://https://library.bridgew.edu/campus/mathematics/pimuepsilon

Number of New Members: 7

Number of Continuing Members: 

Activities: This year we continued our annual integration bee which is partially funded by a PME grant. The integration bee had over 16 participants with first through third place received prizes. Along with our annual induction ceremony, we held our annual Abramson Colloqium, which brings in an outside speaker to give a general audience math talk.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present at the PME National Meeting this year? Yes, possibly our new inductee Oscar Quester.

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.
Oscar Quester who will be a senior in the fall will be attending Carnegie Mellon's summer REU program. He also won the top poster prize at the University of Connecticut's annual undergraduate conference.

If you were awarded a PME Lectureship, Conference, or Prize Grant within the past year, please briefly describe the results.
We were awarded a PME prize grant that was used to fund a first place cash prize at our annual integration bee. The math department matches the total grant for a second and third place prize as well as providing snack and refreshments at the event.