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Augustana College
2003-2004 Chapter Report

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Douglas L. Nelson

Number of New Members Inducted:

15

Number of Continuing Members:

5

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

Two student members:

Kevin R. Wierzbicki
Matthew C. Fanello

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

Two students were given outstanding accomplishment awards:

Williamson Award in Mathematics to Jaclyn M. Swan
McLaughlin Award in Computer Science to Eric M. Bengtson

Invited address for our annual banquet:

Edward W. Packel, Volwiler Professor of Mathematics, Lake Forest College "Projectile Motion with Resistance, Experimental Mathematics, and the Lambert W Function."

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. :

Eric M. Bengtson, Ph.D. program in computer science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Eric also received an outstanding presentation award for his student paper at Boulder last summer.