Mathematics & Statistics

Assistant Professors of Statistics Laura Taylor and Kirstie Doehler attended the 7th Annual UNCG Regioinal Mathematics and Statistics conference on Nov. 5 with students Ted Berkowitz and Kileigh Browning. Senior statistics major Ted Berkowitz presented a talk on “A Comparison of Methods to Compute Confidence Intervals for Proportions.”

Jeffrey Clark's "Derivative Sign Patterns" appears in the current (November 2011) edition of The College Mathematics Journal.

Kathryn Huffman, a 2012 Middle Grades Education major with concentrations in Mathematics and Social Studies, was recognized as the Outstanding Mathematics Education Student for the Central Region of NC on Thursday, Oct. 27, at the annual conference of the NC Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

Several faculty from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics recently presented at the annual meeting of the North Carolina Council of Teachers of Mathematics in Greensboro, N.C., Oct. 27-28.

Alan Russell, associate professor of mathematics, published "Is There a Best Rectangle?" in the November 2011 issue of the Mathematics Teacher.

Chad Awtrey, assistant professor of mathematics, has published a research article in the most recent volume of the International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics.

Chad Awtrey, assistant professor of mathematics, presented a research talk on Galois theory and p-adic numbers at the Southeastern Sectional Meeting of the American Mathematical Society at Wake Forest University on Sept. 24, 2011.

A $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation will bolster the number of math and science teachers Elon University graduates in the years ahead through a partnership with the Alamance-Burlington School System.

Chad Awtrey, assistant professor of mathematics, presented three talks at MathFest, the national meeting of the Mathematical Association of America, in Lexington, Ky., from Aug. 4-6, 2011.