Texas Eta
Texas A & M University
2006-2007 Chapter Report

 

Advisor and Officers

Advisor: Professor Philip B. Yasskin

President: Dana Bergstresser

Vice-President: Justin Wilson

Treasurer: Ben Wells

Webmaster: Dakota Blair

Number of New Members Inducted:

22

Number of Continuing Members:

N/A

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

Our chapter advisor, Dr. Philip Yasskin, gave a very interesting and interactive talk on platonic solids. Not only did we learn about Euler numbers, but we also got to build platonic solids using interlocking plastic blocks.

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

Cara Montgomery, Lisa Cangelose, Jason Pfister, Andrew Matteson, Hannah Saugier, and Bret Lockhart.

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. :

Dana Bergstresser Statistics at Texas A&M University.

Justin Wilson Physics at University of Maryland

Ben Wells Statistics at North Carolina State University

Andrew Matteson Goldwater Scholarship recipient, Spring 2007

Justin Wilson Astronaut Scholarship recipient, Fall 2006