Entries tagged with ‘mcs’
Get ready for Pi Day
Mark your calendars for the oh-so-popular Pi Day celebration. Please join the MCS Department in celebrating Pi Day on Thursday, March 14. Slices of Pi(e) will be served in the first floor lobby of Olin at 3:30 with Pi Trivia to start shortly after in Olin 103.
MCS Scholarship: Dr. Jeff Ford
Since Summer of 2021 Dr. Jeff Ford has been a Team-based Inquiry Learning fellow at the NSF-funded TBIL institute at University of South Alabama. This is a group of faculty who work to write open-source textbooks using the TBIL pedagogy and conduct research on the effectiveness of this teaching method, In Summer 2023 Dr. […]
MCS Scholarship
Congratulations to Dr. Jillian Downey. Her paper titled Implementation of Alternative Grading Methods in a Mathematical Statistics Course has been accepted into the Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education. An advanced copy of the article can be found here.
MCS Scholarship
Congratulations to Dr. Laura Hildreth for her article entitled Writing Workshops to Foster Written Communication Skills in Statistics Graduate Students in The Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education.
Tenure Ceremony Recognizes MCS Faculty Member
Congratulations to Dr. Jillian Downey. Dr. Downey was officially tenured by the college today.
Pi Day 2023
Students, faculty, and staff gathered in the 1st floor Olin lobby to celebrate Pi Day 2023 by eating pie and participating in a pi themed trivia contest. What musical artist released a song called Pi in 2005? If you know the answer to this question you should consider joining us next year for pie and […]
MCS Faculty Member Featured on the Learning for Life @ Gustavus Podcast
Dr. Melissa Lynn of the Gustavus Mathematics Computer Science and Statistics Department was featured on the December 15 episode of the Learning for Life @ Gustavus podcast. Listen to what she had to say by clicking here.
MCS Major Crowned 2020 St. Lucia
The MCS department would like to recognize Mathematics and Computer Science Major Abbie Doran for being crowned St Lucia. Congratulations Abbie! Your title is well deserved. You can view a recording of the ceremony and learn more about Abbie and the rest of the candidates here
Upgrades
The MCS department made some upgrades over the summer. The iMacs that were in Olin 326 have been replaced with a PC that runs the latest release of Ubuntu. The hardware change was made to compliment upcoming changes to the Computer Science major. The department also added a 3rd generation Threadripper with a 3970 X […]