Pennsylvania Xi Chapter
Saint Joseph's University
2002-2003 Chapter Report


 

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Paul Klingsberg

President: Kathleen Ryan

Number of New Members Inducted:

6

Number of Continuing Members:

6

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:

Students helped organize a very interesting Math Awareness Day program.

2:

The students ran a math t-shirt contest; the result was a very funny t-shirt.

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. :

Kathleen Ryan talked on her senior honors work at the Moravian Student Conference in February.
 
Chris Dugan will be taking an REU this summer at Lafayette.
 
Matt Zawistowski will be a graduate student in math at Lehigh University, starting in Fall '03.
 
Kathleen Ryan and Matt Zawistowski attended the AMS-MAA joint meetings in Baltimore in January; each of these students completed a departmental honors thesis.