Penn College Names Director of Mathematics, General Education
July 25, 2011 - 11:56 a.m.
Penn College recently appointed a director of mathematics and general education in the School of Integrated Studies. Paul Watson II began his duties on July 1. Among his responsibilities, Watson coordinates the math-placement process for incoming students, oversees operations of the Test Center and supervises its staff, and evaluates and develops full- and part-time faculty. He also coordinates department and School of Integrated Studies general-education assessment efforts with the Office of Assessment, Research and Planning.
Study-Abroad's First Math Class Has Fantastic Time in Guatemala
Jan. 21, 2011 - 1:50 p.m.
Eight students and two Penn College faculty members – Curt E. Vander Vere, assistant professor of mathematics, and Rob Cooley, assistant professor of anthropology and environmental science – along with Maya Exploration Center instructor Christopher Powell, studied Maya mathematics and culture in Flores, Tikal, Seibal, Yaxha and Lake Peten Itza, Guatemala, from Dec. 28-Jan. 4.
Photos provided by Rob R. Cooley
Penn College Courses to Be Offered at SUN Area Technical Institute
April 28, 2010 - 4:02 p.m.
Penn College recently approved an agreement with SUN Area Technical Institute in New Berlin to provide selected developmental and first-year college courses at the SUN ATI campus. The courses are available to high school students enrolled at SUN ATI or its sending districts, adult education students, and currently enrolled or prospective Penn College students. Instruction will be delivered by Penn College faculty during the early-evening hours following regular summer, fall and spring semester schedules at the college.
College Names Mathematics and General Education Director
March 24, 2010 - 4:14 p.m.
Penn College recently appointed a director of mathematics and general education in the School of Integrated Studies. Joanna K. Pruden, an assistant professor of mathematics and previously the mathematics department head, began the new duties on March 15. Among her responsibilities, she will coordinate the math-placement process for incoming students; oversee the operations of the Test Center, as well as supervise its staff; and evaluate and develop full- and part-time faculty. She will also coordinate department and School of Integrated Studies general-education assessment efforts with the Office of Assessment, Research and Planning.
Mathematics Professor Has Paper Published
Jan. 19, 2009 - 4:52 p.m.
William Ma, professor of mathematics at Penn College, co-authored a paper that was published recently in a scholarly journal. The paper, titled “Möbius Invariant Metrics Bilipschitz Equivalent to the Hyperbolic Metric,” was published in June in Conformal Geometry and Dynamics, an electronic journal of the American Mathematical Society.
Mathematics Faculty Present at National Conference
Dec. 11, 2008 - 4:15 p.m.
Six members of Penn College’s mathematics faculty – Edwin G. Owens, Joanna K. Pruden, Sandy Carlson, Lauren Gordon, LeAnn M. Henry and Diana L. Kuhns – recently offered presentations at the annual conference of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges. The conference, held in Washington, D.C., Nov. 20-23, featured more than 200 workshops and presentations for approximately 1,200 mathematics educators from the United States and Canada.
Retired Math Faculty Member Granted ‘Emeritus’ Honor
June 26, 2008 - 4:55 p.m.
Robert G. Bowers, retired professor of mathematics at Penn College, has been granted “professor emeritus” status by the college’s board of directors. The board voted unanimously Thursday to award the designation to Bowers, who was the 2007 recipient of the Veronica M. Muzic Master Teacher Award − the college’s highest level of recognition for a faculty member.
Math Professor’s Research Published in Journal of Analysis
Jan. 30, 2008 - 2:20 p.m.
William Ma, professor of mathematics at Penn College, has published two research papers jointly with a University of Cincinnati professor. The papers by Ma and David Minda, who is the Charles Phelps Taft professor of mathematics at the University of Cincinnati, appeared in The Journal of Analysis, Volume 15 (2007). This is a special volume containing the proceedings of the International Conference on Geometric Function Theory, Special Functions and Applications, held Jan. 2-5, 2006.
Math Professor Earns Student Nomination to ‘Who’s Who’
Sept. 28, 2007 - 8:00 a.m.
William Ma, a professor of mathematics at Penn College, was recently nominated by a former student for inclusion in “Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers and Educators.”
Math Professor Presents Invited Talks in China
Aug. 24, 2007 - 1:40 p.m.
A mathematics professor at Penn College was invited by two Chinese institutes of higher education to give presentations this summer. On June 27, William Ma offered a talk titled “Hyperbolic metric in geometric function theory” at Beihang University in Beijing. On July 22, he presented “Hyperbolic metric and convex functions” at Yulin College in Yulin.
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