Connecticut Gamma Chapter
Fairfield University
2002-2003 Chapter Report


 

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Joan Weiss

President: Lauren Sarrey

Vice President: Marika Jewczyn

Treasurer: Erin Heslin

Secretary: Kimberly Gaines

Number of New Members Inducted:

41

Number of Continuing Members:

18

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present a paper at the PME national meeting at MathFest in Boulder, Colorado?

No.

Describe the two most interesting or unusual chapter activities this year:

1:

In April our Annual Induction Ceremony with Dr. Benjamin Fine of Fairfield University who gave a very interesting Pi Mu Epsilon Lecture entitled "Gears, Rolling Circles, and Center Curves."

2:

In April sponsored "Life After Fairfield Panel of Mathematics Graduates from 1995 - 2003."

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduates? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences. :

In March Marika Jewczyn presented "Exploratory Spreadsheets for Statistics Students" at RUMBUS, Research by Undergraduates in Mathematics Boston University Symposium.
 
Marika Jewczyn accepted a Teaching Assistantship to begin graduate work in Mathematics at Boston University.