Pennsylvania College of Technology recently appointed a director of mathematics and general education in the School of Integrated Studies. Paul Watson II began his duties on July 1.
Eight students and two Penn College faculty members Curt E. Vander Vere, assistant professor of mathematics, and D. Robert 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.
Pennsylvania College of Technology 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.
Pennsylvania College of Technology 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.
William Ma, professor of mathematics at Pennsylvania College of Technology, 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. Co-authors of the paper are David A.
Six members of Pennsylvania College of Technology's mathematics faculty 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. Edwin G.
Robert G. Bowers, retired professor of mathematics at Pennsylvania College of Technology, 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 â the college's highest level of recognition for a faculty member.
William Ma, professor of mathematics at Pennsylvania College of Technology, 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).
William Ma, a professor of mathematics at Pennsylvania College of Technology, was recently nominated by a former student for inclusion in "Who's Who Among America's Teachers and Educators." His biography will appear in the 11th edition of the book, which honors about 5 percent of the nation's teachers.
A mathematics professor at Pennsylvania College of Technology 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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