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Governor’s Report, continued from page 15…Krista Leal from California State University, San Bernardino, presented a poster during theStudent Poster Session at the JMM in San Diego in January of this year. Leal’s project advisorwas current MAA Southern California-Nevada Section Chair Min-Lin Lo.(Photo by Magnhild Lien)As always, the JMM program was rich and full of interesting talks, panels and funactivities, and the Southern California-Nevada Section was well represented. The onlyproblem with such an extensive program is that it isimpossible to get to see and hear everyone.I attended the Joint Prize Session where Francis Su (left)of Harvey Mudd College was presented with the MAAHaimo Teaching Award; Perci Diaconis and RonGraham, UC San Diego, were presented with the MAAEuler Book Prize for their book Magical Mathematics:The Mathematical Ideas that Animate Great MagicTricks; and John Baez, UC Riverside, with co-authorJohn Huerta, was presented with the AMS Levi L. ConantPrize for the article “The algebra of grand unifiedtheories” (Bulletin Amer. Math. Soc. 47 (2010), no. 3).Above: Francis Su at the Joint Prize Session, where he received the MAA Franklin and DeborahTepper Haimo Distinguished Teaching Award. Su was the Southern California-Nevada Section’snominee for the 2013 award.Governor’s Report, continued on page 17…16
Governor’s Report, continued from page 16…CSU Bakersfield, Channel Islands, Fresno, Fullerton, Long Beach, San Bernardino, SanDiego State and Cal Poly Pomona all had students presenting posters at the StudentPoster Session, as did Harvey Mudd College, Loyola Marymount University, PepperdineUniversity, Pitzer College, Pomona College, UCI, UCLA, UCSB, University of Redlandsand University of San Diego.I conclude with a couple of announcements from MAA headquarters. A new andimproved MAA website is scheduled to be launched this spring. MathFest in Hartfordbegins a day early, July 31 with a Grand Opening Reception, which is included in theconference registration. A final plug: Membership is aging – please help recruit theyounger generation of mathematicians as MAA members!News from the Campuses of the Southern California–Nevada SectionConcordia University Irvinewelcomes Amanda Croll, Ph.D.candidate at the University ofNebraska – Lincoln, to itsmathematics faculty beginning inJuly, 2013. The future Dr. Crollwill defend her Ph.D. inMathematics this April at theUniversity of Nebraska – Lincolnbefore joining the CUI faculty.The title of her dissertation is“Periodic modules overGorenstein local rings.” A nativeTexan, Amanda did herundergraduate work at SamHouston State University. She andher husband Nick will relocate to the Irvine area this summer. Amanda joins CUIfull‐time faculty members Dr. Melinda Schulteis (CUI ’95), Professor Julie Melberg,Professor Ken Clavir, and Dr. Bret Taylor, department chair.The inaugural class of AMS Fellows includes Arthur Benjamin, Maria Klawe, andNicholas Pippenger of Harvey Mudd College; Judith Grabiner of Pitzer College; andErica Flapan of Pomona College. Klawe is president of Harvey Mudd College.At Pomona College, “Seeing Symmetry,” an exhibition of mathematical art, will be ondisplay on the second floor of Millikan Hall (home of the mathematics department)through Summer 2013. The artist is Frank Farris of Santa Clara University.New hires, promotions, honors, awards, grants? Let us know!Please send news from your institution to janet_beery@redlands.edu17
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