News of the Section

This issue marks the inauguration of the News of the Section column. It is our intention to share all the news that’s fit to print. Do you have new faculty in your department? Have you had retirements? Are you offering a seminar or workshop? Have your faculty or students received special honors? Tell the Southern California Section about it!

FYI: Only 9 of the 29 regional MAA sections have 2 meetings a year and the Southern California Section is one of them! We are fortunate to work in such an active Section.

Congratulations go out to recently promoted Associate Professors:

Lisette de Pillis, Harvey Mudd
Hajrudi Fejzic, CSUSB
Ran Libeskind-Hadas, Harvey Mudd
Mickey McDonald, Occidental Coll.
Jennifer Quinn, Occidental Coll.
Ami Radunskaya, Pomona Coll.
Rollie Trapp, CSUSB
Wenxiang Wang, CSUSB

Welcome some recently hired mathematicians to the Section:

Jorge Aarao, Claremont McKenna Coll.
Carolyn Ervin, Loyola Marymount U.
Carol Fan, Loyola Marymount U.
Lily Khadjavi, Loyola Marymount U.
Tom Lofaro, Harvey Mudd Coll.
Jamie Pommersheim, Pomona Coll.
Michael Raugh, Harvey Mudd Coll.
Christopher Towse, Pomona Coll.

Congratulations to Karrolyne Fogel of California Luthern University on being named a national Project NExT Fellow for 1999-2000.

Paul Vicknair of CSUSB has been named Associate Vice President for Academic Personnel.

Susan Addington is on leave from CSUSB for the year and is working in Boston with Curriculum Development Associates.

Lisette dePillis of Harvey Mudd College was named the Argonne 2000 Maria Goeppert-Mayer Distinguished Scholar. She will spend her sabbatical at Argonne National Labs.

Send news from your institution to Jennifer Quinn, jquinn@oxy.edu or Occidental College, Dept. of Mathematics, 1600 Campus Road, Los Angeles, CA 90041. Let us publicize your honors, events, and milestones.

On-line

There are some great mathematics resources available on the World Wide Web. Hopefully this column can be a forum for sharing our favorite and most useful sites.

MAA On-line <http://www.maa.org/> is a tremendous resource. There are informative, student accessible columns by Ivars Peterson, Keith Devlin, Frank Morgan, and Alex Bogomolny. There are teaching and professional development resources for faculty. If you haven’t visited for a while, it’s time to browse the site again.

Swarthmore’s The Math Forum <http://forum.swarthmore.edu/> is an award winning site dedicated to building an on-line community of teachers, students, researchers, parents, educators, and citizens at all levels who have an interest in math and math education.

Looking for a way to capture the interest of your students? Mudd Math Fun Facts <http://www.math.hmc.edu/funfacts/> or the Furman University Mathematical Quotation Server <http://math.furman.edu/~mwoodard/mquot.html> may give you some ideas.

Please, share your favorite web sites with the Southern California Mathematical Community. Send a brief description and the URL to jquinn@oxy.edu.

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