Ohio Omicron
The University of Akron
2004-2005 Chapter Report


 

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Laura K. Gross

President: Lori McDonnell Vice President: Julie Dowdell Treasurer: Michele Kneale

Number of New Members Inducted:

26.

Number of Continuing Members:

31.

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

No, but our treasurer was a delegate.

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

We held a game night for the first time. We also had alumni give two lectures, one on cyptography and cryptanalysis, the other on mathematics in genetics.

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. :

President Lori McDonnell is now a graduate student at Nebraska.

Member Carey Childers presented a poster in the graduate-student session at MAA MathFest in Albuquerque.