Liaison
Newsletter
December 2004
In this issue:
Join Us in
Atlanta
Our annual MAA/Department Liaison Breakfast is set
for Saturday,
January 8, 2005, at 7:00
a.m. in the Marriot Marquis Ballroom
III. We hope
you can join us. Discussion topics for this year’s breakfast will
include the
role of undergraduate research for students in mathematics, and ways
that MAA
can promote it.
Nominations for Alder Award due December 15
In January 2003 the MAA
established
the Henry L. Alder Award
for Distinguished Teaching by a Beginning College or University
Mathematics
Faculty Member to honor beginning college or university faculty whose
teaching
has been extra ordinarily successful and whose effectiveness in
teaching
undergraduate mathematics is shown to have influence beyond their own
classrooms. Details are available through MAA Online at
http://www.maa.org/Awards/alder.html
Nominations for this year’s Alder Awards should be sent to
Martha Siegel at Mathematics Department, Towson
University, 8000
York Road, Stephens Hall #302, Towson,
MD 21252-0001
by December 15.
Proposals to Host SUMMA REU
Sites Due January 31, 2005
The MAA and its
Strengthening Underrepresented Minority
Mathematics Achievement (SUMMA) Program invite mathematical sciences
faculty to
apply for grants to host an MAA Student Research Program on their own
campuses
for six weeks in Summer 2005. These grants will support stipends for
one
faculty researcher and a minimum of four local minority undergraduates,
as well
as costs for student room and board. The MAA will fund up to 6 grants.
Details
are available at http://www.maa.org/nreup/.
Proposals Sought for 2006 CBMS Regional Research
Conferences
The National Science
Foundation intends to support up to seven NSF-CBMS Regional Research
Conferences in 2006. Each five day conference features a distinguished
lecturer
who delivers ten lectures on a topic of important current research in
one
sharply focused area of the mathematical sciences. The lecturer
subsequently
prepares an expository monograph based upon these lectures, which is
normally
published as a part of a regional conference series.
Support is provided for about 30 participants at each conference and
the
conference organizer invites both established researchers and
interested
newcomers, including postdoctoral fellows and graduate students, to
attend. For
details visit http://www.cbmsweb.org/NSF/2006_call.htm
PREP 2005
Be
on the lookout for the 2005 program announcement for the
MAA PRofessional Enhancement Program (PREP) and Preparing
Mathematicians to
Educate Teachers (PMET) workshop series. All MAA members will receive
the 2005
program brochure, and announcements will also appear in FOCUS. Details
will
soon be available through MAA online at the PREP (www.maa.org/prep)
and PMET (www.maa.org/pmet) websites.
Nominations Sought for MAA
National
Officers
You
should have already received this call for nominations,
but we’re including it again to be sure:
The
Nominating Committee is compiling a list of candidates for MAA
President-Elect,
First Vice President, and Second Vice-President for slates to be voted
on in
the spring of 2005. Please send your
suggestions, together with a supporting paragraph, to the Chair,
Thomas_Banchoff@brown.edu,
or to one of the other Nominating Committee Members, Ann Watkins at
Ann.Watkins@csun.edu, Wade
Ellis at Wade_Ellis@westvalley.edu,
David
Bressoud at bressoud@macalester.edu,
or Aparna Higgins
at Aparna.Higgins@notes.udayton.edu.
Nominations
will be most effective if they are received by December 13, 2004.
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