Math Department News
- Austin Peay was well represented at the poster sessions at the national MathFest conference in Cincinnati in August. Professors and students that presented their research include Jackie Vogel, Rachel Balthrop, and Kassi Rye: "Mathematical Misconceptions and Teaching Implications at the Secondary Level," Jackie Vogel and Jillian Honea: "Pythagoras and Music Theory," and Brad Fox: "Neighborhood-Prime Labelings of Hamiltonian Graphs."
- A large class of 25 APSU students earned the honor of being inducted in April into the Pi Mu Epsilon national mathematics honor society. Congratulations to Tatiana Alonso, Lakorria Bates, Conner Black, Taylor Brentari, Isaiah Carmichael, Luke Cecil, Darby Del Duca, Austin Harnage, Michael Harris, Shannon Harrison, Codie Hill, Derrick Jator, Susan Kersten, Zach Marlow, Megan McCracken, Curtis Mickens, Payton Nicoll, Angeline Rinehart, Lance Schneider, Kenneth Shipley, JoLynn Tyner, Kara Underwood (pictured below), Tate Williams, Claudia Yanes Garcia, and Lydia Yanes Garcia.
- Multiple groups of students presented posters at the 14th Annual APSU Research and Creativity Forum in April. Taylor Brentari, Ryan Cain, and Benjamin Meadows; Zach Marlow (pictured below); and Darby Del Duca and Courtney Frazier presented the results of projects from their Linear Algebra class, representing our department well at the campus-wide event.
- Professor Jackie Vogel and her daughter Jill, a recent graduate of APSU's music program, presented on connections between the Pythagorean Theorem and Music. Their interdisciplinary presentation was made at the TMATYC Conference at Roane State Community College.
- Four of our math majors competed at the 2019 MAA Southeast Section Conference's Math Jeopardy competition. Erin Sherman, Katherine Kreuser, Isamar Rachal, and Angeline Rinehart (shown left to right below) did a great job representing our university!
- Mathematics professors Ben Ntatin and Brad Fox presented their research at the 2019 MAA Southeast Section Conference at Lee University in March. Dr. Ntatin presented on Group Actions of Lie Groups on Flag Manifolds, and Dr. Fox presented on Neighborhood-Prime Labelings of Graphs.
- The 2019 Middle Tennessee Mathematics Conference featured several APSU Math Ed majors and faculty as presenters. Students included Isamar Rachal, Chelsea McCall, and Caleb Marston (pictured below), and faculty presenters included Audrey Bullock (shown below), Sam Ligo, Jackie Vogel, and Rebecca Darrough. They represented our Math Education program well!
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Recent graduate alumni John Kennedy, along with his co-author Professor Jackie Vogel, wrote an article published by the TX Forum of Teacher Education. Their work is titled "Does Exposure to Higher Level Mathematics Affect Problem Solving?" Congratulations to John for this accomplishment!
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First-year Math Major Dejah Reed was selected as a Finalist for the APSU 1000 Creative Response Competition. Her response (shown below) to Just Mercy shows the love, strength, and support the main character received from others in the novel. Great work Dejah!
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Many APSU students presented at the 2018 Tennessee Academy of Science Conference, hosted at APSU in November. Student presenters included Mutiu Samiyu and Wasiu Shittu, Amarachi Mbakwe, Emmanuel Akoja, Stevye Tinchie, Scott Howard, Israel Olugbade and Kehinde Ajibade, Lance Schneider, Joseph Mathews, and Matt Watkins. Congratulations in particular to Joseph, Matt, and Scott who were awarded as the top three presenters in the math section!
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Also presenting posters at the TAS Conference were LaQuinton Dunn and Latoria Brown, Tamara Niccum and Michael Harris, and Lance Schneider. Congrats to LaQuinton and Latoria (pictured below) for being selected as the best poster!
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Congratulations to Malori Cloys, a current graduate student at APSU and recent undergraduate alumnus, and her research advisor Dr. Brad Fox who had their paper "Neighborhood-Prime Labelings of Trees and Other Classes of Graphs" accepted to be published in the Pi Mu Epsilon Journal.
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At the Tennessee Mathematics Teachers Association Conference in September, several APSU students and faculty presented their research and served on a panel discussion about our annual math contest. Student presenters included Tabitha Michael, Ali Brumfield, Samantha Broadhurst and Chelsea McCall, and Josh McMillan and Carrie Hudgins. The panel members were Dr.'s Audrey Bullock, Jennifer Yantz, Becky Darrough, and Ellen Smyth. Great job by everyone representing our Math Education program.
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Dr. Brad Fox presented his graph labeling research at the 10th International Workshop on Graph Labeling in September at Ball State University.
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Kindyl King and her advisor Dr. Samuel Jator published a research paper entitled "Integrating Oscillatory General Second-Order Initial Value Problems Using a Block Hybrid Method of Order 11" in the journal Mathematical Problems in Engineering. Great work Kindyl!
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Congratulations to our department's 2018 recipients of the Outstanding Senior and Outstanding Sophomore Awards - Kindyl King and Payton Nicoll!
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Sixteen students were given the honor of being inducted into APSU's Pi Mu Epsilon mathematics honor society in April 2018: Malori Cloys, Jake Crews, Rickey Cupp, Jonathan Gunner, Tyler Hagemann, Denver Hall, Cassie Hobbs, Caleb Marston, Chelsea McCall, Megan McCracken, Rhett Newton, Isamar Rachal, Kayla Richards, Joseph Spear, Christopher Tuncap, and Harrison Welch.
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Three of our department's faculty presented their research at the 2018 MAA Southeast Section Conference at Clemson University in March: Brad Fox in the area of Graph Theory, Nick Kirby in the area of Differential Equations, and Ben Ntatin in the area of Geometry and Analysis. Dr. Fox also presented his work at the AMS Southeast Sectional Conference at Vanderbilt in April.
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Many of our faculty members, along with current and former undergraduate and Master's level students presented at the Middle Tennessee Mathematics Teachers Annual Conference in February. Presenters included current undergraduate Jessica Elliott in our Math Education concentration; current EdS students specializing in Mathematics Jeremy Cecil and Sarah Cecil; current MAED Math specialization student Frances Ford; current MS Math Instruction students Rachel Balthrop and Justin Owens; recent MAED alumni John Garwood and Lea Keith; and APSU faculty Audrey Bullock, Rebecca Darrough, Sam Ligo, Jackie Vogel, and Jennifer Yantz. Great job representing our department and graduate programs!
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Senior Math Major Malori Cloys was one of 48 undergraduates selected to present at the 2018 Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics in January, where she presented her research on neighborhood-prime labelings of graphs that was conducted with Dr. Brad Fox.
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Katherine Kreuser, a math major within the actuarial science concentration, passed the first of the Society of Actuaries tests, Exam P, in January 2018. These exams give our graduates a great advantage on the job market in the actuarial field. Congratulations to Katherine!
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Congratulations to our very successful undergraduate researchers for their recent conference presentations. Kindyl King, Malori Cloys, and Menique Brewer earned the top 3 awards for mathematics presentations at the 2017 TAS Conference. Joseph Mathews also presented research at the UNC-Greensboro Regional Math and Stats Conference. Great work by our math major and their research mentors: Dr. Sam Jator, Dr. Brad Fox, Dr. Vajira Manathunga, and Dr. Sumen Sen.
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Dr. Jennifer Yantz was selected as the recipient of the 2017 Socrates Award for Excellence in Teaching. It is a well-deserved honor for Dr. Yantz's success in the classroom and her commitment to her students.
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Junior math major Katherine Kreuser has been accepted into the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics summer program. She will spend eight weeks studying math in the highly acclaimed study abroad program.
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Graduating math major Emily Stark was selected as the 2017 recipient of the William McClue Drane Award for her terrific character, scholarship, leadership, and service to APSU! Congratulations to Emily, who will be pursuing a Ph.D. degree this fall at Florida Atlantic University.
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Congratulations to the Math Department recipients of our Outstanding Senior Award - Emily Stark and Outstanding Sophomore Award - Tyler Hagemann!
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14 accomplished students were inducted in the Pi Mu Epsilon Honor Society in the Spring 2017 semester: Amy Berg, Laura Daniels, Marc Douty, Beverly Jean-Baptiste, Kaleb Kemp, Kindyl King, Joseph Mathews, Christopher McDonald, Jordan Lynn Miller, Tamara Niccum, Sabrina Nieves, Ryan Swanson, Breanna Vanden Berg, and Konstantin Yakshin.
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Students Kindyl King, Katherine Kreuser, and Nathan Nickelson presented their undergraduate research at the 2017 MAA Southeast Section Jeopardy at Mercer University. Professor Brad Fox also presented his research in graph theory and permutations at the conference.
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Congratulations to the APSU Jeopardy Team - Travis Collard, Scott Howard, Kindyl King, and Emily Stark, along with their mentors Dr. Kirby and Dr. Ntatin, for winning the 2017 MAA Southeast Section Jeopardy Competition.
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Professor Ben Ntatin has been selected to serve as the State Director for Tennesse for the Southeastern Section of the Mathematical Association of America.
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Math professors Dr. Brad Fox, Dr. Raman Sahi, and Dr. Jennifer Yantz represented our department at the 2017 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Atlanta through presenting their research at the largest annual national math conference.
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Math Professor Dr. Nell Rayburn was elected by the APSU faculty for the honor of serving on the university new Board of Trustees.
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APSU's Pi Mu Epsilon Math Honor Society inducted 18 outstanding new members in the Fall 2016 semester: Josh Allen, Paul Bagley, Jessica Boettner, Travis Collard, Kirsten Edwards, Jessica Elliott, Alison Flowers, Jesse Guy, Marquize Hill, Jennifer Jones, Katherine Kreuser, Gary Larson, Kaitlyn McCollum, Nathan Nickelson, Antonio Ramos, Jeremiah Simmons, Michael Vu, and Bradley Wilcox.
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Six of our top math majors showed the strength of women in mathematics by attending the 2016 Southeastern Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics at Duke University: Jessica Boettner, Malori Cloys, Alison Flowers, Kindyl King, Katherine Kreuser, and Emily Stark, with Kindyl and Emily also giving research presentations at the conference.
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The Pi Mu Epsilon Spring 2016 spring induction honored four well-deserving inductees: Thomas Bau, Jessica Kenny, Thomas Ruland, and Logan Varney.
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Twelve APSU students were honored through their induction into the Pi Mu Epsilon Honor Society during the Fall 2015 semester: Austin Bishop, Jonathan Bunton, Dominic Critchlow, Kelsey Hill, Travis Hodge, Laura Judy, Lea Keith, Sydney Litchfield, Ryan Ponder, Bryan Tidwell, Paul Watkins, and Austin Wilson, along with Professors Rebecca Darrough, Brad Fox, and Sumen Sen
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Congratulations to Dr. Ntatin (Mentor) and the Jeopardy Team - David Zhang, Mathew Rayburn, Ryan Honea, and Thomas Clayborn for winning the 2015 MAA-SE Jeopardy Championship.