Institution: Hope College

Reporting Year: 2024-2025

Advisor: Dyana Harrelson

Advisor's Email Address: harrelson@hope.edu

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

Permanent Faculty Correspondent: Stephanie Edwards

Permanent Faculty Correspondent's Email Address: sedwards@hope.edu

Officers: N/A

Chapter Website: http://N/A

Number of New Members: 41

Number of Continuing Members: 757

Activities: We had an awards day with knots(pretzels) and pi(chocolate chip cookie pie). 39 Hope students, 1 Hope faculty member, and 2 very advanced dual enrolled high school students were inducted. In addition 30 awards were given out for outstanding performance and contribution to the math department. We also took 4 faculty and 14 students to JMM 2025, 10 of which were student speakers. Some of these students helped lead the PME panel on navigating JMM, they volunteered at the PME booth, and helped prepare for the undergraduate student reception. Finally, the local PME chapter worked to improve the math department's student space, including adding math themed decorated concrete statues.

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

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.
We used the Prize grant to fund our 8 third year awards (which we named the Pi Mu Epsilon Third Year Award). This prize grant was matched by local funds being used for the 22 other awards that were given. All awardees were given an inspirational math book, certificate, and a special math department button.