Kudos to Curtis Lamp

Congratulations to Curtis Lamp who was recently selected to the highly selective, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) SURF Gaithersburg program in the Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) for this summer.  He will be working with mentors from NIST on research associated with latent fingerprint pre-processing. Way to go, Curtis!

MidSchoolMath Annual Conference

In February Dr. Tom Evitts presented the workshop entitled "Persist and Persevere? No Problem!" at the third MidSchoolMath Annual Conference in Santa Fe, NM.

AMTE's Affiliate Connections Committee Appointment

Dr. Tom Evitts was recently appointed to a three-year term on the Affiliate Connections Committee of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Education (AMTE).

Secondary Mathematics Students Attend the NCTM Regional Conference

NINE students from our Technology in the Mathematics Classroom course attended the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Regional Conference in Atlantic City October 22-23, 2015. Students were able to attend a variety of professional development sessions that will help them in their development as classroom teachers, including sessions on how to effectively incorporate technology in the classroom. Conference attendance is an excellent opportunity for our students to hear from current classroom teachers on activities and strategies that they are using with their own 7-12 math students.

Shenandoah Undergraduate Mathematics and Statistics Conference

Curtis Lamp, a sophomore math major, presented the talk "Atherosclerosis and Social Influences" recently at the Shenandoah Undergraduates Mathematics and Statistics Conference at James Madison University.  This presentation was based on his undergraduate research project with Dr. Luis Melara.

The End of an Era

After 36.5 years of service to Shippensburg's Mathematics Department, Pam McLaughlin has retired. Thank you, Pam, for all that you did for all of the faculty and students at Ship for the past three-plus decades! We wish you all the best in retirement!

Pennsylvania College of Teachers of Mathematics (PCTM)

The following Mathematics Education faculty and students attended the the PCTM annual meeting held in Lancaster, PA in August.

• Dr. Tom Evitts presented the workshop "Problems that Promote Collaborative Persistence".
• Dr. Dave Kennedy presented the workshop "Rich Tasks:  A Key to the Common Core".
• Seniors Emily Owens and Matt Christmas attended the conference's Preservice Teacher Day.