Iowa Section News

October 31, 2006 - The section will be starting a Section NExT organization at the Fall 2007 section meeting.  For more information about this, go to the Iowa-NExT web page or contact Brian Birgen.

January 13, 2006 - The section had two members receive awards at the Joint Meetings in San Antonio.  Keith Stroyan from the University of Iowa was one of three recipients of the national Haimo Award for Distinguished Teaching.  As a part of this award, Keith gave a talk during the awards ceremony.  Cal Van Niewaal from Coe College received the Certificate for Meritorious Service for the Iowa Section.  Congratulation to Keith and Cal!

    (Thanks to Abbi Swanson for the photos.)

April 8, 2004 - The section had a number of teams who competed successfully in the 2004 Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) in early February.  A team from Wartburg College received the Meritorious ranking.

April 7, 2004 - The section had a large number of students who participated in the 2003 Putnam Exam.  The following is an (incomplete) listing of students who scored at least one (1) point on the exam, with their score in parentheses.

Dordt College
Timothy Vis (19)
Kyle Fey (4)
Sam Dokter (1)
Kevin Herdegen (1)
Jeremy Nelson (1)

Central College
Vasyl Zhabotynsky (6)
Stephanie Kleven (4)
Andrew Larson (2)
Tyler Sandersfeld (2)
Rusty From (1)
Eric Miller (1)
Team of Zhabotynsky, Kleven, and Larson received ranking of 121

Cornell College
Amy Winter (1)
Joshua Reiher (1)

Maharishi University of Management
Bryce Allen (10)
Michael Koren (1)

Wartburg College
Angela Kohlhaas (10)
Justin Peters (8)
Tomoko Shibuya (2)
Elizabeth Luett (2)
Christine Scarlett (1)
Nick Kuennen (1)
Jon Schmidt (1)
Jesse Sathre (1)
Team of Kohlhaas, Shibuya, and Luett received ranking of 124

February 15, 2004 - Scott Herriott from Maharishi University of Management recently had his book College Algebra Through Functions and Models published by Brooks-Cole.  It was classroom tested at the University of Northern Iowa.  If you would like to receive a review copy, please contact Scott (herriott@mum.edu).

June 17, 2003 - The section had a number of people who participated as Readers at the reading of the Advanced Placement (AP) Calculus exam on June 2-8 at Colorado State University.  Among the 630 readers this year were:  Al Hibbard and Mark Mills from Central College; Monica Meissen from Clarke College; Susan Harthun and Kory Swart from Kirkwood Community College; Robert Keller from Loras College; Doug Shaw from Northern Iowa University; Rebecca Hannasch from Ankeny High School; Linda Muhly from Iowa City West High School; and Wesley Day from Norwalk High School.  This year, around 208,000 exams were graded during the seven-day reading.  With each exam having six questions, that meant that almost 1.25 million questions were graded by the 630 participants.

AP is regularly seeking college faculty to participate in the Calculus reading.  Their goal is to have 60% of the readers being college faculty and the other 40% being high school teachers.  This year, the ratio was approximately 50/50.  If you are a college faculty member who may be interested in participating in the Calculus reading, feel free to contact one of the people mentioned above, or look at the AP web site www.apcentral.collegeboard.com.

April 8, 2003 - The section had a number of teams who successfully competed in the 2003 Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) in early February.  One team from Luther College and one team from Simpson College received the Meritorious ranking.  One team each from Grinnell College, Luther College, Simpson College, and Wartburg College received Honorable Mention.  Two teams from Grand View College, three teams from Grinnell College, and one team from Simpson College each received Successful Participant.  A complete listing of the results (in PDF) is available.  For more information about the MCM, go to www.comap.com/undergraduate/contests/.  (Contributed by Murphy Waggoner, Simpson College)

April 8, 2003 - The section had a large number of students who participated in the 2002 Putnam Exam.  The following is an (incomplete) listing of students who scored at least one (1) point on the exam, with their score in parentheses.

Central College
Andrew Larson (20)
Jake Knepper (12)
Stephanie Kleven (11)
Vasyl Zhabotynsky (10)
Betsy Knipfer (2)
Matt Hanawalt (1)

Dordt College
Chris Wyenberg (11)
Jonathan Huizingh (10)
Matt Visker (3)
Kyle Fey (2)
Brandon Karlsgodt (2)
Colin Attema (1)

Grinnell College
Jonathan Wellons (40)
Matthew Bond (39)
Devdatta Kulkarni (12)
Raz Magar (12)
Theo Beasley-Henderson (12)
Raicho Bojilov 12 Paul Heider (11)
Steve Fenigstein (11)
Doug Babcock (11)
Christine Oehlert (9)
Choedpong Khannabha (8)
Logan Axon (3)
John Wray (3)
Desi Dimova (2)
Zelealem Yilma (2)
Ji-hyun Seo (2)
Timothy Lin (2)
Dawa Sherpa (1)
Avran Lyon (1)
Team of Wellons, Bond, and Kulkarni was ranked 33.

Maharishi University of Management
Byron Deans (10)
Michael Koren (10)
Bryce Allen (9)
Emily Marcus (1)

University of Northern Iowa
James Brito (32)
Adam Hoefer (10)
Curtis Martinek (10)
James Mills (10)
Scott Herschman (9)
Eric Portratz (4)
Andrew Scott (4)
Shawn Kmetz (2)
Melissa Potter (2)
Team of Brito, Herschman, and Martinek was ranked 122.

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