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Current Events:
۞ Austin Peay will host
the 2009 TMTA Mathematics Contests in April! The
high school
contest will be Tuesday, April 21 and the
middle
school contest will be Thursday, April 30. Click the links for
registration.
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Congratulations to the APSU Math Jeopardy team
for finishing first place out of twenty four teams at the Mathematical
Association of America Southeastern Section conference!!! Sponsored by
Assistant Professor Yuriy Bulka, our team consisted of Jonathan Fisher,
Casey McKnight, Michael
Northington, and Emily Stone.
The team's final score was 2700, and second place had a score of 0.
Pictured below is our team. Left to right they are Emily Stone, Casey
McKnight, Jonathan Fisher, and Michael Northington. Way to go!!!!!!!!
۞ Recitation
Sessions for MATH 1920 are available during the Spring 2009 semester.
Click here for
further information.
۞ Apply NOW for
Mathematics Department Scholarships for 2009-2010! Click
here for details.
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APSU represented at
the Tennessee Academy of Science: Faculty and students from APSU
Department of Mathematics presented at a meeting at the Tennessee Academy of
Science on Nov. 22, 2008, in Nashville. Click below to see the presenters
and the titles of their work.
http://www.apsu.edu/News/show_news.asp?id=3814
۞ Caleb Wherry has accepted a summer REU with Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory. In the fall semester he will intern with NASA studying the
evolution of polar stratospheric clouds. Click
here for the full story!
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Congratulations to our students and faculty!
· Amy
Dexter received the award for the Outstanding Graduating Senior in
Mathematics, the Drane Award, and the Award for Distinguished Academic
Achievement. Read about her here:
http://www.theleafchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008804230374
· Diane
Whitson received the Harvill Civitan Citizenship Award and the Outstanding
Senior in Secondary Education Award. Read about her here:
http://www.theleafchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008804230374
· Robert
French received the award for the Outstanding Sophomore Majoring in
Mathematics.
· Daniel
Mayo, a spring 2007 graduate in mathematics, received the Robert Sears award
in Physics.
· Jackie
Vogel and Nancy Smithfield each received an award for Outstanding Advisor.
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Congratulations to Amy Dexter for winning the Patterson Prize
for outstanding undergraduate paper presentation at the annual Southeast
Section meetings of the MAA!
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The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant of $582,740 to fund
scholarships in mathematics and physics at Austin Peay! Click
here for application materials.
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Take the right math
courses at the right times! Click
here for the
multi-year math course schedule.
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