Morgan Interns at Spire Advertising

Morgan Mirtes has a summer internship at Spire Advertising in Ashland, Ohio as a Programming Intern.  The main responsibility for this position is assisting the lead programmer in web programming projects.  She gives credit to the AU courses in Programming I & II, and Web Design that have helped her succeed at this internship.  Morgan has enjoyed the opportunities to learn new things and put them into practice.  “Everything I do makes the company’s operations all that much better!”

Congrats Emma!

Emma Vandeberg is a recent Ashland University graduate and double major in Integrated Mathematics and Mathematics. In the spring she completed student teaching at Celebration K-8 School in Celebration, Florida. While there, she helped with Mathletes (their middle school math team) and attended a calculator training put on by Texas Instruments. In the fall she will be teaching at Saint Cloud High School in Saint Cloud, Florida. They currently plan on having her teach Geometry and an Intensive Geometry class for the students who need extra assistance with this subject. Emma is super excited for this opportunity! 

Congrats Marissa!

May 2013 grad, Marissa Abram, has accepted a position at Western Harnett High School in Lillington, NC. She will be teaching Algebra 2 and Geometry.

Marissa graduated with a double major in Integrated Mathematics and Mathematics. She will reside in Chapel Hill, NC.

Congratulations and good luck, Marissa!

Congrats Larissa!

Larissa Berry, May 2013 grad, has accepted a teaching position at Rootstown High School, in Rootstown, Ohio. Larissa earned a Bachelor of Science in Education with a major in Integrated Mathematics (Grades 7-12).

Congratulations and good luck, Larrisa, as you begin your career in education!

Dr. Swain Presents at Association for Christians in the Mathematical Sciences

Dr. Gordon Swain, Professor of Mathematics, attended the Biennial Conference of the Association for Christians in the Mathematical Sciences, May 29-June 1, at Bethel University, St. Paul, Minnesota. He gave a talk titled, "Calculus methods from the early 1600s." In this talk he showed some of the creative mathematics involved in solving calculus problems (like finding the area between curves) that was used before the discovery of Calculus (late 1600s). About the conference he said, "While mathematics is neither Christian nor non-Christian, when mathematicians who are Christians get together there is an extra element of wonder at God's creation. Plus it is very cool to be able to talk about mathematical problems and your Bible study in the same conversation; typically we have to separate these parts of our lives. One speaker at the conference spoke about grace in teaching, another talked about the ethics of autonomous robots (robotic weapons and robotic caregivers); this last topic was very scary."

Dr. Rupasinghe Pushlishes Paper

Dr. Rupasinghe, assistant professor of Mathematics, had a paper titled "Obtaining prediction intervals for FARIMA processes using the sieve bootstrap" published in the Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation with two co-authors; Dr. P. Mukhopadhyay of Arbor Research Collaborative for Health, Ann Arbor, MI and Dr. V.A. Samaranayake of Missouri University of Science & Technology, Rolla, MO.

 

Dr. Rupasinghe was the first and corresponding author of this article.

MAA Conference

Faculty members and students from the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science recently attended the Spring Meeting of the Ohio Section of the Mathematical Association of America at Denison University. 

The faculty members attending were 

• Dr. Cathy Stoffer, Dr. Chris Swanson, Dr. Vickie Van Dresar and Dr. Darren Wick.

Six students participated in the annual Leo Schneider Student Team Mathematics Competition

• Joey Ciaccia, Kate Fleming, Stacee King, Anna Payne, Megan Raber, and Rob Woodward

Three students presented contributed talks at the meeting

• Kate Fleming – “Variations on the Monty Hall Problem”
• Stacee King – “Subtriangles and Their Implications for Creating Subrectangles” 
• Megan Raber – “Decimal Expansions Involving Fibonacci Numbers”