Virginia Gamma
James Madison University
2004-2005 Chapter Report

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Hasan Hamdan

President: Courtney Schultz

Vice President: Rebecca Hope

Treasurer: Danna Chiang

Number of New Members Inducted:

22.

Number of Continuing Members:

40.

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.

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

Well, we had two meetings in the fall. Two meetings in the Spring.In one of the Fall meetings, we watched the Infinite Secret (A NOVA documentary about recovering the Method). In the second Spring meeting, we invited a speaker who talked about Fermat's Last Theorem. (Speaker was really engaging and funny)

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. :

Yes, Ryan Charest just got a scholarship at NC State to study statistics. He was awarded, the Outsdanding Statistics Major of the year award.