Institution: Clarkson University
Reporting Year: 2017-2018
Advisor: Guangming Yao
Advisor's Email Address: gyao@clarkson.edu
Has There Been a Change in Chapter Advisor During the Past Year?: No
Permanent Faculty Correspondent:
Permanent Faculty Correspondent's Email Address:
Officers: President: Noah Chicoine Vice-president: Andres Garcia Jimenez Secretary: Kate Isaksen Treasurer: Emily Epietak
Chapter Website: http://
Number of New Members: 8
Number of Continuing Members: 100+
Activities:
Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present at the PME National Meeting this year? Yes. Nick McDonald is palning to attend the PME National Meeting this year and plan to deliver an oral presentation and applying for travel support through PME.
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.
2017 Mathematics Conference and Competition of Northern New York (MCCNNY) 2017 was held at Clarkson University on October 28, 2017. The organizing Committee consists Prof. Guangming Yao, Prof. Jie Sun, Prof. Joel Foisy, Prof. Blair Madore, Mr. Jesse Clark-Stone, Prof. Daniel Look. The conference was partially supported by PME Conference Grant and Student Prize Grant. The conference offered two key note presentations offered by Prof. Ben Galluzzo from Shippensburg University and by Prof. Tom Garrity from Williams College. Overall, over 60 conference attendees. Two panel discussions on Undergraduate Research and Career are delivered by formal and current students from the Associated Colleges of St. Lawrence Valley (including Clarkson University, SUNY Potsdam, SUNY Canton and St. Lawrence University). Twelve (12) student oral presentations, 14 student poster presentations were delivered. Six (6) oral presentation prizes and 3 poster presentation prizes were offered at the end of the conference together with Trivia/Jeopardy game by students. It was a great success for our local students.