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Student News
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November 13, 2009: Brett Evans, a May 2009 graduate, accepted a
position as a statistician with the Center for Workforce Information in the PA Department of Labor and Industry. |
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October 28, 2009: Mathematics majors Karrissa King and Dennis
Pace were featured in an article in the Butler Eagle for their upcoming participation in the Putnam competition. |
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October 21, 2009: Tyler Druschel accepted a job as an actuarial
analyst at the Retirement Service Center for Mercer Consulting in Louisville, KY. |
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September 25, 2009: Samantha Corvino, Amanda Eplett, and Karissa
King were awarded one-year memberships to the Association for Women in Mathematics. Dominic Currie, Christopher
Chatham, Dennis Pace, and Kent Uber were awarded one-year memberships to the American Mathematical Society. |
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September 2009: Emily Hendrickson accepted a permanent position
teaching at a school in Mexico City. |
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August 2009: Ben Pearce passed Exam FM for the Society of
Actuaries. Make sure to congratulate Ben on passing the second exam in the sequence!!! |
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August 2009: Dominic Currie passed Exam FM for the Society of
Actuaries. This is the second exam in the sequence, and passing this exam is a major accomplishment.
Congratulations Dominic!!! |
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July 2009: Jesse Waldorf passed Exam P for the Society of Actuaries.
Make sure to congratulate Jesse on this fantastic achievement!!! |
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June-July 2009: Samantha Corvino was selected as one of twelve
participants for the research experiences for undergraduate students at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
There were over 100 applicants to this program! |
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June 2009: Alycia Butchelli, Samantha Corvino, and Karissa King had their
solutions to challenge problems posted in the Spring 2009 edition of The Pentagon. |
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May 2009: Tyler Druschel, a recent graduate of SRU, passed Exam P
for the Society of Actuaries. Congratulations Tyler!!! |
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April 16, 2009: Matt Bellala, Samantha Corvino, Nathan Leidwinger,
Djordje Petkovic, Ryan Smail, and Jesse Waldorf were inducted into KME, the math honor society. |
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April 14, 2009: Two teams from SRU received meritorious rankings
for their partication in the mathematical modeling competition. Over 1,600 teams entered the competition, and
the meritorious ranking is reserved for those in the top 18%. The members of the first team were Djordje Petkovic,
Jesse Waldorf, and Josh White; and the members of the second team were David Allen, Samantha Corvino, and Ben Pearce.
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March 26, 2009: Dr. Richard DeVeaux of Williams College
gave two presentations related to statistics. The first talk was about data mining featuring applications
of statistics, and the second talk was about teaching statistics to the general audience. |
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March 17, 2009: The students challenged the faculty to a
bowling match. It was pretty close in the end, but the best bowler was definitely a student! |
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February 21, 2009: Several SRU students attended the Pi Mu Epsilon
conference held at Youngstown State University which featured a full program of student talks. Slippery Rock's own
Samantha Corvino presented a talk on a problem she had worked on. |
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January 4-8, 2009: Andrew Archbald, Alycia Butchelli, Samantha
Corvino, and Dominic Currie, attended the Joint Meetings of the AMS and MAA in Washington, DC. |
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November 25, 2008: Christina Ehrenberger delivered a presentation on Julius Wilhelm
Richard Dedekind for the Dedekind Cuts Luncheon. |
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November 1, 2008: Alycia Butchelli, Kim Romanelli, and Danielle
St. Denis attended the MidStates Conference on Undergraduate Research in Computer Science and Mathematics at the
College of Wooster in Ohio. |
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October 24, 2008: The math club sponsored a students vs. faculty
volleyball game at the ARC. Despite their efforts, the faculty lost to the students. |
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April 18-19, 2008: Mr. Lee White and Mr. Joseph Yarzebisnki presented
talks at the State System of Higher Education Math Conference held at SRU. |
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2007-2008 Academic Year: Emily Hendrickson was names Slippery Rock
University's Outstanding Senior Woman. |
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????: Rob Rifenburgh passed the Society of Actuaries Exam P. |
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Faculty News
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November, 2009: Dr. Robert Vallin had a paper published in the
Tatra Mountains Mathematical Publications, and he was also invited to speak at the EPaDel Fall Meeting of
the MAA. |
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August 6-8, 2009: Drs. Rachelle Bouchat and Lyn Miller attending MathFest
in Portland, OR. Dr. Miller helped organize the student talks and poster session while Dr. Bouchat was a participant
in Project NExT (a national professional development program for recent PhD's). |
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May 11, 2009: Dr. Elise Grabner was promoted to full professor. |
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March 5-8, 2009: Dr. Rachelle Bouchat attended the Bluegrass Algebra
Conference at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. |
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February 2009: Dr. Rachelle Bouchat's paper entitled "Free Resolutions
of Edge Ideals of Simple Graphs" was accepted for publication in the Journal of Commutative Algebra |
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January 4-8, 2009: Drs. Rachelle Bouchat, Michael Detlefsen,
Bill Lindgren, and Richard Marchand delivered talks at the Joint Meetings of the AMS and MAA in Washtington, DC. |
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November 12-15, 2009: Dr. Rachelle Bouchat attended the Clifford Lecture
Series on Tropical Geometry at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA. |
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November 2, 2008: A reception was held to celebrate the complete funding
of the Voltz Scholarship. |
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November 2008: Dr. Robert Vallin published an expository paper entitled
"Going to Meetings" in Math Horizons. |
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October 2008: Dr. Robert Vallin had his paper "The Pointwise Limit of
Separately Continuous Functions" accepted for pulication in the Real Analysis Exchange. |
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August 16, 2008: Drs. Rachelle Bouchat and Thomas Wakefield have joined
the department from the University of Kentucky and Kent State University, respectively. |
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2008-2009 Academic Year: Dr. Jeffrey Forrest is hosting Xiaoya Ha from
the Department of Mathematics of the Wuhan University of Science and Engineering in Wuhan, China. |
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August 1, 2008: Dr. Richard Marchand was awarded tenure. |
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August 2008: Drs. Elise Grabner and Gary Grabner with co-authors Kazumi Miyazaki
and Jamal Tartir had their paper "Relative Semi-Metrizability" accepted to the International Journal of Mathematics and
Mathematical Sciences. |
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2007-2008 Academic Year: Dr. Elise Grabner worked with Mrs. Bennett,
Mr. Edwards, and Mr. Plummer at Slippery Rock Area Middle School to assess our math education curriculum versus the
needs of sixth, seventh, and eigth graders. |
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July 30-August 2, 2008: Dr. Lyn Miller co-organized the student talk
session at MathFest in Madison, WI. |
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July 2-9, 2008: Drs. Richard Marchand and Andrzej Szymanski presented
talks at the Fifth World Congress of Nonlinear Analysts. |
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April 18-19, 2008: Drs. Robert Buck and Jeffrey Forrest presented talks
at the State System of Higher Education Math Conference held at SRU. |
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April, 2008: Dr. Richard Marchand earned the Outstanding Undergraduate
Mentor Award from the Allegheny Mountain Section of the MAA. |
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April 2008: Dr. Robert Vallin published an expository paper entitled "The
Professional Master's Program" in Math Horizons. |
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March 13-15, 2008: Dr. Andrzej Szymanski presented "Non-B-Points in Compact Hausdorff
Spaces" at the 42nd Spring Topology Conference in Milwaukee, WI. |
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