Texas Phi Chapter Report

Institution: University of Texas at Tyler

Reporting Year: 2022-2023

Advisor: Madeline Dawsey

Advisor's Email Address: mdawsey@uttyler.edu

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

Permanent Faculty Correspondent: Katie Anders

Permanent Faculty Correspondent's Email Address: kanders@uttyler.edu

Officers: 

Chapter Website: http://

Number of New Members: 4

Number of Continuing Members: 7

Activities: We held an Integration Bee in the spring. We had combined Math Club and Pi Mu Epsilon meeting at which Dr. Joseph Vandehey explained some of the mathematics behind the Rubik's cube.

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.
Lucas Vega and Millie Jeske are both participating in NSF REU's this summer. Lucas is studying inverse semigroups with Dr. David Milan, and Millie is studying pattern avoidance with Dr. Kassie Archer. Both Lucas and Millie plan to give poster presentations at JMM 2024. Martha du Preez was accepted to several PhD programs in math and will be attending Baylor University in the fall.

If you were awarded a PME Lectureship, Conference, or Prize Grant within the past year, please briefly describe the results.
We received a prize grant, which we used for prizes at our Integration Bee this spring.