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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 30th, 2009
Eileen McGraw received her Bachelor’s degree in mathematics and economics from the College of William and Mary. She earned a Master’s degree in applied economics from the University of Michigan. Eileen’s academic interests are in mathematical applications in economics. She recently mentored several students in independent research projects that used GIS and census data to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 25th, 2009
Chris Barat received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Notre Dame and his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Brown University. His academic interests include statistical analysis of and model building for biological data. He has included several undergraduate students in his research program. Chris is the faculty mentor for SU’s chapter of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 20th, 2009
Tim Potter, an applied math major who is graduating in May, had a phone interview with Northrup Grumman on Thursday. At the end of the interview, Tim was invited to travel to Northrup Grumman headquarters in Arizona in April for an on-site interview. Congratulations, Tim, and good luck!
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 19th, 2009
Joan Beemer received her Bachelor’s degree from Towson State University and her Master’s in Education degree from Johns Hopkins. Joan’s academic interests are in teacher preparation in mathematics at both the elementary and middle school levels. Recently, Joan helped develop and will teach a new geometry course that is required for students in the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 17th, 2009
Twenty-three students accepted for fall 2009 declared an interest in majoring in applied mathematics. This is the largest group of accepted students the math department has ever seen!
The entire fall 2009 freshman class will be officially welcomed by President Manning at a celebration on Saturday, April 4. Festivities begin at 1:30pm. Incoming students who register [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 11th, 2009
Tim Potter, a senior applied math major, works on his senior capstone project. Tim is working with Dr. Hildy Sanders of the Department of Biological Sciences at SU. He is using a variety of software tools to analyze microarray data Dr. Sanders and her Biology research students have collected. Tim is just one more example [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 9th, 2009
Dr. Christopher Barat is a co-author on the paper “Comparison of Side Effects Between Buprenorphine and Meloxicam Used Postoperatively in Dutch Belted Rabbits” which has been accepted for publication in the Journal of the American Association of Laboratory Animal Science. Dr. Barat is an applied statistician in the Math Department who conducts research with laboratory faculty [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 6th, 2009
Sixth and ninth grade students from the REACH! school visited SU for a day of activities in science and math. Here, students engage in an engineering challenge sponsored by the Math Department. Students had to build a straw tower with a cup at the top that would support a tennis ball. Discussions centered around constraints – time, [...]