Simmons math students inducted into prestigious honor society
Beatriz Datangel
Issue date: 2/4/10 Section: Features
Six Simmons students are now distinguished as the newest members of the National Mathematics Honor Society, Pi Mu Epsilon. As they received their distinction on Dec. 3, Simmons College became the eighth member of the Massachusetts Theta Chapter.
Seniors Ananya Dave, Nicole Gallant, Sarah Faulkner, and Sarah Wetherbee, along with juniors Gabrielle Rossetti and Whitney Andrews, each received the honor from math professors Donna Beers and David Browder and the past President of Pi Mu Epsilon (PME) Joan Weiss.
Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Diane Raymond, and Mathematics and Statistics Department Chair David Novak, started the ceremony with celebratory words to the newest members, and their family, peers, and other faculty members on the significance of the charter. After the keynote by Professor Joan Weiss of Fairfield University and the induction of the students, Professor and PME Chapter Adviser Donna Beers officially accepted the Simmons Charter of the Massachusetts Theta Chapter.
A very impressive record was required not only of the students, but also of the activities promoted by the math department.
Weiss stated that the Simmons petition submitted by Beers exemplified an accomplished record of undergraduate mathematics research and internship opportunities covering a period of several years. Activities involving the promotion of scholarly activity involving mathematics and the Simmons Student Chapter Campus of Math Association of America (MAA) were both on and off campus. Presentations by Simmons students at the prestigious Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, and their attendance at regional MAA meetings, showed some of the students' further intellectual growth.
Beers described a vibrant program of monthly events sponsored by the Simmons Student Chapter of the MAA including field trips, invited lecturers, and research discussions by Simmons alumnae in mathematics.
"This past fall, for example, clinical researcher Tracy Antonelli, '95, presented her current work at Children's Hospital Boston on a randomized trial of sugar-sweetened beverage consumption in overweight adolescents," Beers said. "Another mathematics alumna, Estella Kanevsky, '07, discussed her thesis on the association between breast ductal carcinoma in situ and breastfeeding."
Seniors Ananya Dave, Nicole Gallant, Sarah Faulkner, and Sarah Wetherbee, along with juniors Gabrielle Rossetti and Whitney Andrews, each received the honor from math professors Donna Beers and David Browder and the past President of Pi Mu Epsilon (PME) Joan Weiss.
Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Diane Raymond, and Mathematics and Statistics Department Chair David Novak, started the ceremony with celebratory words to the newest members, and their family, peers, and other faculty members on the significance of the charter. After the keynote by Professor Joan Weiss of Fairfield University and the induction of the students, Professor and PME Chapter Adviser Donna Beers officially accepted the Simmons Charter of the Massachusetts Theta Chapter.
A very impressive record was required not only of the students, but also of the activities promoted by the math department.
Weiss stated that the Simmons petition submitted by Beers exemplified an accomplished record of undergraduate mathematics research and internship opportunities covering a period of several years. Activities involving the promotion of scholarly activity involving mathematics and the Simmons Student Chapter Campus of Math Association of America (MAA) were both on and off campus. Presentations by Simmons students at the prestigious Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, and their attendance at regional MAA meetings, showed some of the students' further intellectual growth.
Beers described a vibrant program of monthly events sponsored by the Simmons Student Chapter of the MAA including field trips, invited lecturers, and research discussions by Simmons alumnae in mathematics.
"This past fall, for example, clinical researcher Tracy Antonelli, '95, presented her current work at Children's Hospital Boston on a randomized trial of sugar-sweetened beverage consumption in overweight adolescents," Beers said. "Another mathematics alumna, Estella Kanevsky, '07, discussed her thesis on the association between breast ductal carcinoma in situ and breastfeeding."
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