UAS Mathematics Program
2009 - 2010 Newsletter
May , 2010
2010 Mathematics Graduates
Fall 2009 graduates include Nick Axmaker and Tara Greenwood, Spring 2010 graduates included Erin Rausch, Alicia Hughes-Skandijs, Lai Hinckle, Tony Gaussoin and Sean O'Neil. Anthony received the "Outstanding Mathematics Graduate Award" and Lai received the "Student Employee of the Month Award for March 2010". Anticipated graduates for the 2011 academic year include Tyler Honeycutt in Fall 2010, and Stephen Ellison and Tiffany Goins in Spring 2011. Sean and Lai will get right back into school this summer when they begin their Secondary School MAT program at UAS. Both have been placed with mathematics teachers at Thunder Mountain High School for their practicum.
2011 PNW MAA Annual Section Meeting
The 2011 Annual Meeting of the Pacific Northwest Section of the
Mathematical Association of America will be held at the Auke Bay Campus
of UAS in Juneau on June 23 - 25. A meeting webpage has been
posted on the Mathematics Program Website. This webpage will be updated
as details become available. Confirmed invited speakers to date are Dr.
David Bressoud of Macalester College and Dr. John Adam of Old Dominion
University. Brief biographies of these and other invited speakers will
be posted on the PNW MAA website. To find out more about Dr. Bressoud go
to http://www.macalester.edu/~bressoud/,
and to find out more about Dr. Adam go to http://www.odu.edu/~jadam/index.html.
Past Graduates
Of past graduates, what is known is that Dustin Raymond is wrapping
up his Secondary School MAT at UAS, James Bauman is wrapping up Law
School down South, Kevin Schriver has been working as a CAD Technician
in Juneau and Micaela (formerly Ponce) who double-majored in biology and
mathematics has begun an NSF Doctoral Fellowhip with the Department of
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Center for the Study of Complex
Systems at University of Michigan. Auguste Stiehr has come back
to to UAS after completing his MAT (from UAS) and has worked as the Math
Specialist at the Learning Center while Nick Axmaker took time off from
studies in the Spring to work at the Learning Center. Past
graduates, let us know where you are and what you are doing these days.
Other News
Our new faculty members, Andrzej and Megan, have been busy getting accustomed to life in Juneau and at UAS. Both attended the 2010 Joint Meeting of the Mathematical Sciences in San Fransisco in January where Andrzej presented a talk in his research area. Jill, Brian, Megan and Chris attended the 2010 PNW MAA Section meeting in Seattle in April where Megan presented a talk, “An introduction and analysis of birth-death probability models,” her area of interest. Megan was also awarded a PNW MAA Section NExT Fellowship for 2010 - 2011. More recently, May 13 - 15, Megan went to "a pretty good" leadership conference in Sitka: "Emerging Leaders Dialogue", sponsored by The Institute of the North. The dialogue was directed toward young professionals in Alaska and included discussions of a variety of relevant topics in government, AK industry and sustainability, and education. She joined the group that discussed ways to improve the access to quality education, in particular for small remote villages, while maintaining the cultural ties and family responsibilities for the students and communities.