| February 23 |
Swallow Will Take Year as Provost at Sewanee
Davidson College's Kimbrough Professor of Mathematics John Swallow will take a one-year leave to serve as a top administrator at his alma mater, The University of the South in Tennessee. |
| January 06 |
Faculty Featured in National Meeting
Several members of Davidson's mathematics faculty presented, and/or were featured in other ways, at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in New Orleans, Jan. 6-9. |
| December 31 |
2010 -- POSTS BELOW ARE FROM 2010
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| December 03 |
Want to Know Who's the Top Twitter-er?! Math Student and Prof Have Figured Out How!
A Davidson College student and professor have developed a new way to search and connect on the popular social networking site, Twitter. |
| October 30 |
Laurie Heyer wins Thomas Jefferson Award
Congratulations to Associate Professor of Mathematics, Laurie Heyer, who was awarded Davidson College's Thomas Jefferson Award at fall convocation! The annual award goes to a faculty member who has given of self, through teaching, scholarship, and service, generously and well beyond the call of duty. |
| September 06 |
Math and CS Contests Coming!
This fall, Dr. Mossinghoff is recruiting for the regional and national math contests on an October Saturday and Decemeber Saturday; and Dr. Goldmann is recruiting for the regional programming contest. |
| August 23 |
Chartier brings math to blogging and sports
Dr. Chartier has interesting short articles in his new blog called Math Movement and in the new book Mathematics and Sports published by the MAA. |
| August 01 |
Dr. Mikael Goldmann visiting from Sweden
For Fall 2010, Dr. Mikael Goldmann from KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, will be visiting the Department of Mathematics and teaching a Cryptography Seminar, Computer Science 382. |
| June 15 |
Mossinghoff named research journal editor
Professor Michael Mossinghoff has been named an associate editor of the research journal Mathematics of Computation. |
| June 01 |
Carl Yerger joins math faculty
Carl Yerger will be joining the Department of Mathematics as an Assistant Professor starting this fall 2010. |
| May 11 |
Math Class Models Solutions to Help Area Non-Profit Agencies
A class of Davidson math students recently got the opportunity to move beyond textbooks and apply their academic skills to better the community. |
| May 04 |
2010 Student Awards in Mathematics
Students excel in math problem, modeling, and Jeopardy contests as well as earning departmental awards and graduate school fellowships. |
| April 28 |
Swallow and Whitton win teaching awards
Mathematics professors received both of the faculty awards for teaching that were presented at the Spring Convocation college-wide awards ceremony. Dr. John Swallow won the ODK Teaching Award and Dr. Robert Whitton won the SGA Faculty Award. Both ODK and SGA are student organizations; ODK is Omicron Delta Kappa, a national leadership honor society, and SGA is the Student Government Association. |
| December 01 |
2009 -- POSTS BELOW ARE FROM 2009
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| September 30 |
Emeritus Professor Stroud's art & math work featured in Math Horizons
Emeritus Professor J.B. Stroud's work on "Harold and the Purple Heptagon" is discussed in this month's Math Horizons magazine after publication of Stroud's article "Crockett Johnson's Geometric Paintings" in 2008. |
| September 30 |
Mossinghoff publishes a big number!
In the journal Designs, Codes and Cryptography, Michael Mossinghoff authored a paper that includes the number n = 189 260 468 001 034 441 522 766 781 604 in an improved lower bound theorem. |
| July 27 |
Class Research Reveals Unexpected Discrepancies in Genomic Annotations
Findings will help fine-tune work for future genomics investigators |
| July 27 |
Genetically Engineered Bacteria Compute the Route
Paper from Davidson genomics lab and collaborators at Western Missouri University appears in Journal of Biological Engineering. |
| July 27 |
Genomics Program Engineers a Big Week!
Publications in top online journals demonstrate high level of undergraduate student research at Davidson. |
| April 30 |
2009 Student Awards in Mathematics
Students excel in math problem, modeling, and Jeopardy contests as well as earning departmental awards and graduate school fellowships. |
| April 13 |
Chartier tenured; Davis governor; Swallow faculty leader
Spring 2009 honors: Chartier received tenure and promotion; Davis elected as governor of the MAA; Swallow elected as Vice Chair Pro Tem of the Faculty |
| February 27 |
Mathematician Crunches Big Numbers of Netflix Fans to Predict Movie Preferences
Math professor Tim Chartier and student assistant Erich Kreutzer '10 are seeking better ways for Netflix to predict consumers' next movie selection. They also applied the methods to March madness. |
| December 31 |
2008 -- POSTS BELOW ARE FROM 2008
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| October 20 |
2008 Math Competitions
PUTNAM MATHEMATICAL COMPETITION and the VIRGINIA TECH REGIONAL MATHEMATICAL CONTEST 2008 |
| August 01 |
Molinek steps up to Professor and Chair; Neidinger reflects
As of August 2008, Donna Molinek was promoted to a new rank of Professor and new position as Chair of the department. |
| May 28 |
Dr. Klein retired in May 2008
Although some lucky Finite Math students will be taught by Professor Ben Klein this fall, he officially retired in May 2008 after 37 years on the Davidson faculty. |
| May 16 |
2008 Student Awards in Mathematics
Students excel in math problem, modeling, and Jeopardy contests as well as earning departmental awards and graduate school fellowships. |
| May 12 |
Dr. Whitton honored at Annual Athletics Banquet
Davidson athletics celebrated its successes at an annual banquet on May 6. |
| March 11 |
Smith Scholarship Winner Will Study the "Big Picture" of Mathematics
Davidson's tenth Smith Scholar will study mathematics at Cambridge University in England |
| December 31 |
2007 -- POSTS BELOW ARE FROM 2007
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| December 04 |
Davidson's Bacterial Computer Wins Gold in Synthetic Bio Competition
A team of students and faculty from Davidson and Western Missouri University collaborated remotely on a project that earned a gold medal at the International Genetically Engineered Machines exhibition at MIT. |
| October 23 |
Klein Cites Spouse and Peers for His Math Society Honor
At a recent annual meeting, the North Carolina Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCCTM) presented Davidson's Dolan Professor of Mathematics, Ben Klein, with its highest honor. |
| August 07 |
Mathematician's Solution to "$1 Problem" Wins National Award for Top Journal Articles
Davidson College mathematician Michael Mossinghoff employed that insider notion to weave a clever double entendre and win an award for publishing one of the best expository articles of the year in The American Mathematical Monthly. |
| May 20 |
Student Awards and Officers
Spring 2007 Student Awards, Honors, and Elections |
| April 11 |
Teaching Award Recognizes Chartier as Master of Both Math and Mime
Assistant Professor Tim Chartier has been honored as one of three top new mathematics teachers nationwide for his outstanding exposition in print, in classrooms, and in pantomime. |
| April 10 |
Dr. Sarah Mason joins Math Faculty
Announcement and brief information about the newest tenure-track hire in Mathematics, Sarah Mason. |
| March 09 |
MAA Conference involves Davidson Students and Professors
MAA SE Section conference at Georgia Southern University had Davidson students and faculty as speakers and a Davidson Math Jeopardy team of students. |
| March 07 |
Mathematicians Visit Campus for Major Conference
Davidson faculty showcase the college for colleagues around the world attending a regional meeting of the American Mathematical Society. |
| December 31 |
2006 -- POSTS BELOW ARE FROM 2006
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| May 01 |
Congratulations to our new Bernard Society Officers
Faris Al Mazrui, Nick Dovidio and John Helms will serve for 2006-07. |
| April 07 |
Congratulations on Tenure
Professors Laurie Heyer and Michael Mossinghoff received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor |
| April 02 |
Math Jeopardy Win and Professors Honored
At the spring 2006 meeting of the MAA SE section, the Davidson team of students won the Math Jeopardy competition and Professors were honored with the Distinguished Service Award and as Section Lecturer. |
