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January 15, 2003
Free Copies of MAA Notes Volume on Calculus Reform Available
Free Copies of MAA Notes Volume on Calculus Reform Available In the mid-1980s, the mathematics...
January 15, 2003
Mathematics Project Wins Siemens-Westinghouse Competition
Mathematics Project Wins Siemens-Westinghouse Competition Early in December, the Siemens Foundation announced...
January 15, 2003
Demands for Teacher Quality Spur New Initiatives
Demands for Teacher Quality Spur New Initiatives According to an article in Education Week (December 4,...
January 15, 2003
Tenth Annual Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference
Tenth Annual Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference HRUMC X, the tenth annual Hudson River...
January 13, 2003
Improving College and University Teaching
Improving College and University Teaching A recent report from the National Research Council focuses on...
January 13, 2003
NSF Beat: Opportunities at the National Science Foundation
NSF Beat: Opportunities at the National Science Foundation By Sharon Cutler Ross Scientists,...
November 19, 2002
DoE to Establish What Works Clearinghouse
DoE to Establish“What Works Clearinghouse” The US Department of Education has chosen the Campbell...
November 11, 2002
Fewer Math and Science Ph.D.s
According to an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education (Monday, November 11, 2002; online, for subscribers only,...
August 27, 2002
Major Changes Coming for the SAT
Major Changes Coming for the SAT The College Board has announced plans to introduce major changes to the...
August 27, 2002
Robert Devaney Receives NSF Director's Award
Robert Devaney Receives NSF Director's Award Robert L. Devaney Robert L. Devaney of Boston...

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MAA on the Road: At the AMATYC Annual Meeting in Minneapolis

By Michael Pearson and Candace Baumann

The American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC) held its 33rd Annual Meeting in Minneapolis on Nov. 1-4, 2007. The meeting had originally been scheduled for New Orleans, but the facility that was to host the meeting was permanently closed as a result of Hurricane Katrina. So AMATYC made the decision to move to the other end of the Mississippi River and hold "New Orleans in Minneapolis 2007."

A Swiss Legacy: Mathematician Ferdinand Hassler and the U.S. Coast Survey

This year, mathematicians have been celebrating the 300th anniversary of the birth of Leonhard Euler. At the same time, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has been commemorating the 200th anniversary of its oldest ancestor agency, the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. The first head of the Coast Survey was a mathematician named Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler (1770–1843).

MAA FOCUS: On Being a Mathematical Citizen

By Lynn Arthur Steen

Note: This article is an excerpt from Lynn A. Steen's Leitzel Lecture given at MathFest. The full text of the lecture can be found here.

Discoveries + Breakthroughs: Programming with Alice

The demand for computer programmers remains high, yet the number of undergraduates majoring in the subject has been on a downward spiral for the past seven years. A new visual programming language, called "Alice," aims to attract kids to the field of computer science at a young age. Developed by computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University, "Alice" uses three-dimensional figures placed in a storyline instead of the usual numbers, letters, and symbols of a standard programming language.

Discoveries + Breakthroughs: Using Game Theory to Match Kidneys

In the United States, about 4,000 people in need of kidney transplants die each year because of the slow process of matching patients and donors. Now, a new computer program developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) could speed kidney exchange, saving lives.

Now Available: 2006 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (Final Report)

The last of three reports of the 2006 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences is now available. Prepared by Polly Phipps, James W. Maxwell, and Colleen A Rose, the report gives information about faculty size, departmental enrollments, majors, and graduate students for departments of mathematical sciences in four-year colleges and universities in the United States.

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