PI
MU EPSILON
The induction ceremony for 2006 was held on Academic Excellence Day on May 31 from 1:30p.m.-3:00 p.m in the Santiam Room, Werner University Center. Dr. Sam Hall, Willamette University, wasl be the guest speaker. He discussed the great mathematician, Edouard Lucas.
Summer 2004
the Mathematics Department at
WOU was installed as the Oregon
Delta chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon.
We are proud and honored to be
part of this great tradition.
We had a lovely installation ceremony
and everyone enjoyed Dean Jim
Chadney's PME speech, click
here to read it.
MathFest: Congratulations to Jennifer Carmichael (BS Mathematics, 2006), who won
the "Council on Undergraduate Research award for outstanding student research and exposition" this August at MAA's MathFest in Knoxville, TN. Her talk was entitled, "
When are Cayley Tables Sudoku puzzles?"
Last year, Pi Mu Epsilon awarded Jennifer with "Best Presentation" for her talk "Can You or Can't You Count Cantor...."
Alumni: Lindsey Webster (BS Mathematics, 2006) was recently hired by UPS as an Industrial Engineer Management Trainee. She says "... they told me in the last interview that while they usually look for Industrial Engineers it is clear that I have very good analytical skills and am very smart ... The best part is that I will get to think again!!! By how they describe it everyday there is a new challenge, and I'll get to problem solve a lot. So...I actually get to use the skills I spent the last 4 years developing!! "
WOU mathematics professor Michael B. Ward and mathematics major Jennifer Carmichael will be presenting a paper in New Orleans about their research on the relationship between Sudoku puzzles and Cayley tables.
WOU mathematics professor Laurie J. Burton is now a co-author, along with Albert B. Bennett, Jr. and L. Ted Nelson, on the 7th Edition of Mathematics for Elementary Teachers, an Activity Approach. For more information: Visit http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0073053708/information_center_view0/
WOU mathematics professor Cheryl Beaver was named both a Pacific Northwest and a National Project NExT Fellow. Project NExT is a
professional development program for new or recent Ph.D.s in the mathematical sciences.
