Mathematical Sciences Department > News
| June 2006. David Holl
retires from Otterbein and is honored at the Faculty Celebration.
Congratulations
Dave; your colleagues and students will miss you and your enthusiasm and love of mathematics!
Department chair Susan Thompson presents Dave Holl with a
commemorative plaque (photo right).
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| April 2006.
The Otterbein student team of
Kevin Mugo, Larsa Ramsini, Youyou Tao, and Alana Moczydlowski finished third at
the Annual ECC Undergraduate Mathematics Competition held at Mount Union College.
Congratulations and well done!
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| March 2006. Rich Pattis,
computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University and inventor of Karel the Robot,
describes Duane Buck's JKarelRobot software as "by far" the best current implementation
of his original Karel. He said this as part of his keynote address at SIGCSE, the national
Computer Science Education conference.
Otterbein Computer Science professor Duane Buck with Rich Pattis at the SIGCSE conference
(photo right).
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| January 2006. Kevin Mugo
presents "In Search of an 8: Rank Computations on a Family of Quartic Curves", a paper he
co-authored as part of his summer 2005 NSF-REU (National Science Foundation Research
Experience for Undergraduates) research at Miami University.
It was one of the winning posters in the undergraduate poster session at the
Joint Meeting of the American Mathematical Society and Mathematics Association of America in San Antonio, TX.
Kevin will graduate from
Otterbein in June and pursue a mathematics PhD at Purdue University this fall.
Otterbein Mathematics senior Kevin Mugo presents his paper at a departmental
colloquium (photo right).
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