‘lives’ Category
MCS Folks Take Part in Community Coven
Our photographer couldn’t help notice that all species of folk associated with the Mathematics and Computer Science Department contributed to the St. Peter community’s Harry Potter party: faculty, students, and alumni. Department Chair Carolyn Dobler was once again transfigured into her alter-ego, Professor Vector. She is shown tutoring some young witches in the ancient science [...]
Rosoff Wins Swenson/Bunn Teaching Award
The Gustavus Student Senate presented Professor of Mathematics Jeffrey Rosoff with the 2007 Swenson and Bunn Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence. This award, the only teaching award at Gustavus that is selected and presented exclusively by the student body, memorializes two Gustavus students killed in an automobile accident. Professor Rosoff was cited by [...]
Hvidsten Recognized for Meritorious Service
Prof. Holte reports: At this past weekend’s NCS-MAA [North Central Section of the Mathematical Association of America] meeting at the College of St. Catherine, our own Mike Hvidsten was honored with the North Central Section’s Meritorious Achievement Award. He certainly deserves it. To mention just a few his services, I know that he has [...]
Zupan Receives NSF Honorable Mention
Senior math major Alex Zupan added one more recognition to his growing collection with an Honorable Mention from the National Science Foundation’s prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program. (Alex already had awards from the NCAA, USA Today, and the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship program.) He will be entering graduate school in mathematics at the [...]
Dobler Named to National Statistics Committee
Gustavus Professor Carolyn Dobler has been named to a national committee addressing undergrduate instruction in statistics. Peter Lachenbruch, the president-elect of the American Statistical Association (ASA), announced this week that Dobler would serve as one of the ASA’s members of the ASA/MAA Joint Committee on Undergraduate Satistics. Dobler will serve a three-year term [...]
Zupan Wins NCAA Scholarship
Math major Alex Zupan was one of two Gustavus students named NCAA Post-Graduate Scholars (and one of only 58 nationwide).
Nienow Hired as Instructor, Tech Coordinator
Gustavus’s Department of Matheamtics and Computer Science is pleased to have hired Aaron Nienow as Instructor of Statistics and Departmental Technology Coordinator. Nienow started work in January, having received an initial one-semester contract through an expedited hiring process necessitated by a resignation. Now the department has completed a national search, resulting in the [...]
Math Majors in International Photo Contest
Two Gustavus math majors were among the students whose photos were recognized in the College’s 2006 International Photo Contest. Math major Nhung Le received honorable mention for her photo “Love and Life,” taken on July 18, 2006, at Da Lat in her home country of Vietnam. Another Honorable Mention award went to math [...]
Math Major Takes Plunge for Special Olympics
Gustavus math major Luke Audette was among 110 people taking part in Sunday’s Polar Bear Plunge at Hallett’s Pond. The fundraiser, part of St. Peter’s Winterfest, raised over twenty thousand dollars for Special Olympics Minnesota. The high temperature that day was 25 degrees F. Photos by Ed Lee courtesy of the St. [...]
Gustavus Math Student Blogs from Budapest
Budapest, the capital of Hungary, has many attractions, but for math students the number-one draw is the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics, a program that allows North American students to benefit from what Donald Knuth has called the world’s most successful educational system for pure mathematics. This year Gustavus math major Betsy Langowski is among [...]