Lauren Bratslavsky, Shelley Clevenger, Lea Cline, Tracy Mainieri, and Amanda Miller are the recipients of the 2016 Outstanding University Teaching Initiative Awards.
University teaching initiative awards announced
Unit: Mathematics
Illinois State University Actuarial Program scholarships
Fall 2016: Scholarships in the Actuarial Program at Illinois State University Actuarial Scholars Country Scholars in Actuarial Science at Illinois State University Matthew Charboneau, freshman, of Batavia, Illinois Jiasui Ding, sophomore, of Morris, Illinois Noah Du, sophomore, of Hilliard, Ohio Payton Ebelherr, sophomore, of Lincoln, Illinois Sarah Halt, junior, of Bloomington, Illinois Mitchell Morris, junior,
CAS boasts eight Bone Scholars
Eight students with majors in the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) have been named 2016-2017 Robert G. Bone Scholars at Illinois State University. They are William Darrow, chemistry and mathematics; Jackie Durnil, communication sciences and disorders; Alexis Econie, sociology and communication; Nora Fredstrom, health sciences and chemistry; Adrianne Howe, psychology; Lauren Koszyk, music and
Six win 2015-2016 CAS Excellence Awards
Six members of the College of Arts and Sciences were presented with 2015-2016 Excellence Awards at the Dean’s Fall Address and Awards Ceremony on September 13. Professor Maria Schmeeckle, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, won the John A. Dossey Award for Outstanding Teaching by a tenured faculty member. Professor Allison Harris, Department of Physics, won
Measuring a student’s understanding of math concepts
Two Department of Mathematics faculty members are working with the Children’s Measurement Project in the hopes of understanding how students catch on to math concepts.
Actuarial Program bestowed international honor
Illinois State University is one of only four institutions in the world to be honored with the 2016 Casualty Actuarial Society University Award.
Biomathematics workshop scheduled for June
Intercollegiate Biomathematics Alliance (IBA) is hosting an undergraduate research workshop in June 2016. The workshop, named “Pre-Conference Workshop for Future Researchers” is organized by Professor of Biomathematics Olcay Akman. It is designed to gather the faculty and the undergraduate students of the IBA member institutions to initiate cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional research projects. During the workshop, faculty
Video: Research (and some B.E.E.R.) fuels ISU’s biomath program
One day last fall, Stacy Mowry, M.S. ’15, stood in front of the best and brightest minds in her chosen field—biomathematics—and talked about her own research into baffling behavior seen in mongooses.
Redbird media: New works by ISU scholars
Redbird Scholars published novels, math books, textbooks, and other works in 2015.
Reactions: A new prime is born
Prime numbers are those positive integers whose only divisors are 1 and itself. (The first few primes are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, ….) Recently, a computer discovered a new prime number. Illinois State’s Sunil Chebolu of the Department of Mathematics explains the race to find large prime numbers. Chebolu: Prime numbers
