Institution: Marshall University

Reporting Year: 2019-2020

Advisor: Michael Otunuga

Advisor's Email Address: otunuga@marshall.edu

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

Permanent Faculty Correspondent: 

Permanent Faculty Correspondent's Email Address: 

Officers: Chloe' Marcum - President Erica Burns - Vice President Faith Hensley - Secretary Jordyn Bryson - Treasurer

Chapter Website: http://https://www.marshall.edu/pme/

Number of New Members: 9

Number of Continuing Members: 5

Activities: The chapter helped plan a mathematical wall and the Pumpkin House in Kenova, WV. This wall is a math quiz that students in K-12 throughout the area can submit solutions to and win prizes. The club creates the quiz and helps carve and set up the pumpkins. Our chapter hosted a monthly math quiz within the university. We sent out two questions every month and the first person to submit a correct solution was the winner and received a certificate.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present at the PME National Meeting this year? No

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.
Chloe' Marcum attended the University Virginia Topology REU in Summer 2020, she received Marshall University's Outstanding Undergraduate in Mathematics Award, she had a poster presentation at the 2020 Joint Mathematics Meetings, she gave a colloquium talk at Marshall University, and a paper of her work was accepted to the Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications. Faith Hensley was accepted into University of Kentucky's Ph.D. program, she gave a colloquium talk at Marshall University, she had a poster presentation at the 2020 Joint Mathematics Meetings and received Marshall University's Outstanding Undergraduate in Mathematics award. Logan Rose received Marshall University's Discovery Research Award for Summer 2020 and gave a colloquium at Marshall University. Erica Burns studied abroad in Japan in the Spring 2020 semester. Jordyn Bryson received the Gilman Scholarship by the US Department of State to study abroad.

If you were awarded a PME Lectureship, Conference, or Prize Grant within the past year, please briefly describe the results.