The Richard V. Andree Awards

The Richard V. Andree Awards are given annually to the authors of the papers, written by undergraduate students, that have been judged by the officers and councilors of Pi Mu Epsilon to be the best that have appeared in the Pi Mu Epsilon Journal in the past year.

Until his death in 1987, Richard V. Andree was Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of Oklahoma. He had served Pi Mu Epsilon for many years and in a variety of capacities: as President, as Secretary-Treasurer, and as Editor of this Journal.

The following is a list of past recipients of the Richard V. Andree Award:

Year	Place	Author	School	Paper Title
2012	1	Austin Buscher	US Air Force Academy	Approximating Trigonometric Functions with Sums of Generalized Binomial Coefficients
	1	Samantha Campbell	University of Richmond	From Graphs to Determinants to Matrices
	1	Yiran Duan	University of Richmond	From Graphs to Determinants to Matrices
	1	Hristiyan Hristov	Ernst & Young	From Graphs to Determinants to Matrices
	1	Max Grinchenko	University of Richmond	From Graphs to Determinants to Matrices
2011	1	Robert Thijs Kozma	SUNY Stonybrook	Julia Sets of Perturbed Quadratic Maps Converging to the Filled Basilica
2010	1	Matt Alexander	Youngstown State University	A Curiously Rational Result
	1	Dan Emmendorfer	Hope College	Classification of Geometric Spirals
	1	Martha Precup	University of Notre Dame	Classification of Geometric Spirals
	1	Ashley Warren	Otterbein College	Classification of Geometric Spirals
	1	Alex Cameron	Hendrix College	Counting Ring Homomorphisms
2009	1	Giulia Fanti	Olin College of Engineering	Habitats on Costa Rican Jaguar Populations
	1	Brian Nowatowski	Princeton University	Habitats on Costa Rican Jaguar Populations
	1	Adam Shull	Valparaiso University	Properties of Ideal Divisors
	1	John Holmes	Wabash College	Properties of Ideal Divisors
2008	1	Joseph David Gastenveld	Northern Kentucky University	Extensions that Yield Quasi p-Groups
	1	Sharon J. Sternadel	Oregon State University	Circles in a One-Way Street Taxicab Model
	1	Melissa Wasson	Hartwick College	Scaling Ratios and Self-Contact in Planar Asymmetric Trees
2007	1	Sarah Baker and Larisa Perolli	The George Washington University	Log concavity in lattice path matroids
2006	1	Colleen Hughes	Denison University	Linked Triangle Pairs in a Straight edge K_6
	1	Sara Zasada	Elmhurst College	Working with Block Products
2005	1	Aja Johnson	Elon University	Strategies of a Sequenced Game of Chance
	1	David Nash	Santa Clara University	Cayley Graphs of Symmetric Groups Generated by Reversals
	1	Jared Williams	Hendrix College	Extending Wilson's Theorem
2004	1	Stephen W. Hruska	Wheaton College	An Alternating Series Expansion for (ln(2))^2
	1	Rebekah B. Johnson	Wheaton College	An Alternating Series Expansion for (ln(2))^2
	1	Ryan L. Yates	Wheaton College	An Alternating Series Expansion for (ln(2))^2
	1	Molly McGinty	Washington & Lee University	Geometric Probability for the Space-Time Plane
	1	Peter Horn	Hendrix College	Modelling the Impact of Forest Fragmentation on Predator-Prey Populations
	1	Ryan D. Westbrook	Texas A&M University	Modelling the Impact of Forest Fragmentation on Predator-Prey Populations
2003	1	Patrick Hummel	California Institute of Technology	Solid constructions using ellipses
	2	John M. Zobitz	St. John's University	Pascal matrices and particular solutions to differential equations
	3	Stephanie Libera	St. Olaf College	Some Perfect Order Subset Groups
	3	Paul Tlucek	St. Olaf College	Some Perfect Order Subset Groups
2002	1	Andrea Douglas	Hope College	Expected Areas of Randomly Generated Triangles
	1	Courtney Fitzgerald	Niagara University	Expected Areas of Randomly Generated Triangles
	1	Scott Mihailik	University of Michigan	Expected Areas of Randomly Generated Triangles
	1	Kimberly L. Patti	Saint Louis University	Randomly Generating a Finite Group
2001	1	Emilia Huerta-Sanchez	Mills College	Iteration of an Even-Odd Splitting Map
	1	Aida Navarro-Lopez	University of Puerto Rico in Humacao	Iteration of an Even-Odd Splitting Map
	1	David Uminsky	Harvey Mudd College	Iteration of an Even-Odd Splitting Map
	1	John Griesmer	Miami University	Results Involving Continuity of the Derivative
2000	1	Nitish Dass	St. Olaf College	The Determinant of a (m,n) Pretzel
	1	Jonathan McGrath	St. Olaf College	The Determinant of a (m,n) Pretzel
	1	Erin Urbanski	St. Olaf College	The Determinant of a (m,n) Pretzel
	1	Brett Alan Enge	James Madison University	The Search for Tri-Operate Fields
	1	Matthew J. Hale	St. Xavier High School	Circular Functions of Multiple Integral Angles
1999	1	Xiaolong Ron Yu	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Curious Numbers
	2	Jack Samuel Calcut III	Michigan State University	Single Rational Arctangent Identities for Pi
	3	Gina Garza	Western Michigan University	Which Graphs Have Planar Shadow Graphs?
	3	Natascha Shinkel	Western Michigan University	Which Graphs Have Planar Shadow Graphs?
1998	1	Johanna Miller	Duke University	Mauldin-Williams Graphs with Unique Dimension
	1	C. Ryan Vinroot	North Carolina State University	Mauldin-Williams Graphs with Unique Dimension
	1	Tricia Stone	John Carroll University	Where Do My Sequences Lead?
	1	Loi Nguyen	University of North Florida	Seeing is Not Always Believing
	1	Tu Tran	University of North Florida	Seeing is Not Always Believing
1997	1	Marc Fusaro	University of Scranton	A Visual Representation of the Sequence Space
	1	Danica A. Nowosielski	Russell Sage College	Change Ringing: A Connection Between Mathematics and Music
	1	Kerry Smith	Seton Hall University	Rearrangement of Series
1996	1	Rick Mohr	Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology	Nearness of Normals
	2	Ryan Bennink	Hope College	Red Light, Green Light: A Model of Traffic Signal Systems
	3	Carolyn Farruggia	University of Scranton	The Elimination of a Family of Periodic Parity Vectors in the 3x+1 Problem
	3	Michael Lawrence	University of Scranton	The Elimination of a Family of Periodic Parity Vectors in the 3x+1 Problem
	3	Brian Waterhouse	University of Scranton	The Elimination of a Family of Periodic Parity Vectors in the 3x+1 Problem
	3	Mark Tomforde	Gustavus Adolphus College	Self-Similarity and Fractal Dimension of Certain Generalized Arthimetical Triangles
1995	1	Scott M. Wagner	Hendrix College	Group Generators and Subgroup Lattices
	2	Kevin Dennis	Michigan State University	Sierpinski n-Gons
	2	Julie Varbalow	University of Kentucky	An Application of Partitions to the Factorization of Polynomials over Finite Fields
	2	Lars Seme	Hendrix College	Automorphisms of Hasse Subgroup Diagrams for Cyclic Groups
1994	1	Gina Aurello	Seton Hall University	On the Rearrangement of Infinite Series
	2	Rychard J. Bouwens	Hope College	Who Gets the Washers? A Problem in Dividing Resources
	3	Michael J. Reske	Carthage College	The Secret Santa Problem
1993	1	Jennifer DeBoer	Michigan Technological University	Non-Existence of Certain Unitary Perfect Numbers
	2	James R. Murphy	Michigan State University	Uniform Embeddings of Graphs
	2	Mohammad P. Shaikh	Western Michigan University	Uniform Embeddings of Graphs
	3	Carol Clifton	Middle Tennessee State University	Some Operations on Matrix-Valued Expressions
	3	Jeremy M. Dover	Worcester Polytechinic Institute and The University of Delaware	Outerplanar Graphs and Matroid Isomorphism
1992	1	Nataniel S. Greene	Yeshiva University	Fractorial!
	2	Michael H. Lin	Stanford University	Rings of Small Order
	3	Mark J. Lancaster	Hendrix College	On the Number of Invertible Matrices Over Zpe
1991	1	Amy Pinegar	Middle Tennessee State University	Inversions and Adjacent Transpositions
	2	Shannon Spittler	Miami University	A Math Problem Within an Antique Clock Label
	3	Judy Marie Kenney	College of St. Benedict	Turning Triangles into Circles
1990	1	Amy Dykstra	Western Michigan University	A Generalization of Odd and Even Vertices in Graphs
	1	Michelle Shultz	Western Michigan University	A Generalization of Odd and Even Vertices in Graphs
	2	Eric Berg	A Family of Fields
	3	Joel Atkins	Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology	Regular Polygon Targets
1988	1	James E. Georges	California Polytechnic State University	Maximal Polygons for Equitransitive Periodic Tilings
	1	Annette M. Matthews	Portland State University	Maximal Polygons for Equitransitive Periodic Tilings
	2	Melanie L. Butt	Middle Tennessee State University	Automorphism Groups of Hasse Subgroup Diagrams for Groups of Low Order
	3	Robert A. Coury	University of Washington	A Continued Fraction Approach for Factoring Large Numbers
1987	1	Wah Keung Chan	McGill University	On the Largest RAT-Free Subset of a Finite Set of Points
	2	Jennifer Zobitz	College of St. Benedict	Fractals: Mathematical Monsters
	3	Kelley Ann Chambers	University of Dayton	The Isomorphism of the Lattice of Congruence Relations on a Group and the Lattice of Normal Subgroups of a Group
1986	1	Kirk Weller	Hope College	Lattices of Periodic Functions
	2	John Reid Perkins	Oakland University	The Adequacy of { ~ , Æ,?} for Gödel Many-Valued Logics
	3	Janet Eckoff	Albion College	Random Cantor Sets
1985	1	Donald John Nicholson	Iowa State University	A Ubiquitous Partition of Subsets of Rn
	2	Ruth Brisbin	Plant H.S.	Taxicab Trigonometry
	2	Paul Artola	University of South Florida	Taxicab Trigonometry
	3	Julie Yancey	Fort Lewis College	Edge-Labelled Trees
1982	1	Bradley D. Strand	Carleton College	Vector Subspaces of Magic Squares
	2	Karen Cunningham	University of Texas at Arlington	A Simple Model for Two Interacting Species and the Principle of Competitive Exclusion
	3	Ravi Salgia	Loyola University of Chicago	Volume of An n-Dimensional Unit Sphere
1981	1	Gary Ricard	South Dakota School of Mines and Technology	A Comparison of Computer Algorithms to Solve for Knight's Tour
	2	Sandra L. Cousins	Hendrix College	Singular Functions
	3	Michael L. Orrick, Jr.	Macalester College	The Area of a Triangle Formed by Three Lines
1980	1	Ziad Haddad	UCLA	Two Remarks on the Quaternions
	2	Robert C. Smith	University of Arkansas	Uniform Algebras and Scattered Spaces
	3	Alma E. Posey	Hendrix College	Rolling Cones
1979	1	Deborah L. Massari	University of Akron	The Probability of Generating A Cyclic Group
	2	Julie D. Anderson	Hendrix College	Non-linear Additive Functions
	3	Michael J. Young	Portland State University	A Matrix Model for Use in Population Ecology
1978	1	Robert Antol	Iowa State University	The Perfect Numbers and Pascal's Triangle
	2	Debra Lea Gutridge	Muskingum College	Mathematical Curiosities
	3	Jackie L. Lawrence	Western Kentucky University	Numerical Integration by Polynomial Interpolation
1976	1	Brent Hailpern	University of Denver	Continuous Non-differentiable Functions
	2	Philip D. Olivier	Texas Tech University	Two Applications of Pseudoinverses
	3	Karen M. Lesko	Central Missouri State University	A Generalization to Almost Divisible Groups
1975	1	Daniel Minoli & Robert Bear	Polytechnic Institute of New York	Hyperperfect Numbers
	2	Mary Zimmerman	Western Michigan State University	Matrix Multiplication as an Application of the Principle of Combinatorial Analysis
	3	Lonnie J. Kuss	Texas Tech University	A Conformal Group on an n-Dimensional Euclidean Space
1974	1	Charles D. Keys	Lousiana State University	Graphs Critical for Maximal Bookthickness
	2	S. Brent Morris	Duke University	The Basic Mathematics of the Faro Shuffle
	3	H. Joseph Straight	Western Michigan University	Applications of Finite Differences to the Summation of Series
1973	1	S. W. Talley	Western Kentucky University	Niceness of the Socle and a Characterization of Groups of Bounded Order
	2	Daniel Minoli	Polytechnic Institute of New York	Use of Matrices in the Four Color Problem
	3	Roseann Moriello	Seton Hall University	Partial Differentiation on a Metric Space
1972	1	Sidney Graham	The University of Oklahoma	On "Almost Unitary Perfect" Numbers
	1	Christopher Scussel	Michigan State University	Goldbach's Conjecture
	2	Joseph J. Buff	New York University	Characterization of an Analytic Function of a Quaternion Variable
	3	Lee Ratzan	Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences	Comments on the Properties of Odd Perfect Numbers
	3	Frank L. Capobianco	College of the Holy Cross	Spec (R) for a Particular R
1971	2	Martin Swiatkowski	John Carroll University	Wronskian Identities
	3	Thomas R. Bingham	State University of the New York College at Fredonia	Newton and the Development of the Calculus
1969	1	Robert L. Devaney	College of the Holy Cross	Lens Spaces as Coset Spaces
	2	Michael Kopkas	John Carroll University	Partial Sums of Certain Infinite Series of Polygonal Numbers
	3	Douglas Townsend	Ohio State University	A Generalization of Subnet with Some Resulting Improvements in Moore-Smith Convergence Theory
	3	George Benkart	Ohio State University	A Generalization of Subnet with Some Resulting Improvements in Moore-Smith Convergence Theory
1968	1	Daniel E. Putnam	University of Illinois	An Easier Condition Than Total Boundedness
	2	Jerome M. Katz	Brooklyn College	An Interesting Mapping of Two Fields
1967	3	Dennis Spellman	Temple University	On Hula Hoops
1966	1	James Williams	Carleton College	A Multiplication-Free Characterization of Reciprocal Addition