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2005

12 December 2005: Our Department is pleased to host a visit from
- Interim Chancellor Stephen Lehmkuhle, and
- Interim Dean of Arts and Sciences Charles Wurrey.
We showcase our department with an online Presentation (Microsoft PowerPoint).
1 December 2005: Both Kamel Rekab and Liana Sega are approved as Doctoral Faculty in the Department,
while Richard Delaware is approved as (Adjunct) Graduate Faculty.
29 November 2005: Our Department Graduate Faculty decide that effective immediately
No comprehensive Master's Examination will be required
to earn a Master's Degree with concentration in Mathematics or Statistics.
17 November 2005: Our Chair Kamel Rekab nominates Richard Delaware as MAA Department Liaison (Mathematical Association of America).
November 2005: We hear the good news that the expository mathematics paper "Eratosthenes and the Mystery of the Stades" written by undergraduate mathematics major Newlyn Walkup, will now also be published in the MAA's online History of Mathematics magazine Convergence: Where Mathematics, History and Teaching Interact. This paper won 1^st place in the 2005 second annual HOMSIGMAA (History of Mathematics Special Interest Group of the Mathematical Association of America) contest for papers written in History of Mathematics courses across the country and was already published on the HOMSIGMAA website. Congratulations again, Newlyn! The paper was written during Winter 2005 for Math 464 WI (History of Mathematics, Writing Intensive) taught by Richard Delaware.
11 November 2005: In the Expository Talks Series,
undergraduate mathematics (and chemistry) major Pinar Tulay gives a 20 minute talk,
"Leonhard Euler's 1770 'Proof' that:
It is impossible to find any two cubes,
whose sum or difference is a cube",
[See picture at right -->.]
and undergraduate mathematics (and secondary education) major David Jackson gives a second 20 minute talk,
"Joseph Liouville's 1851 Exhibition of the First Transcendental Number".
[See picture at right -->. Photographer: Graduate Student Sarah Vaughn.]
For both students, the talk was an assignment for Math 402 (Advanced Analysis I), taught by Richard Delaware.
28 October 2005: We hosted a visit from 3 faculty members and 8 students of the Emporia State University Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, who drove up to see David Bitters of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in Leavenworth, Kansas, speak on "Explosive Mathematics" in our Expository Talks Series, eat dinner at Ghengis Khan Mongolian Barbeque, and lastly see the mathematical movie "Proof" (see three MAA reviews) at the Screenland Theatre downtown. From our department, Liana Sega and Richard Delaware joined the group.
October 2005: Our new Chair Dr. Rekab has recently been invited to be a Coordinating Editor for the Journal of Probability and Statistical Science (A Comprehensive Journal of Probability and Statistics for Theorists, Methodologists, Practitioners, Teachers, and Others). Dr. Chen is already an Associate Editor for this journal.
6 October 2005: We present undergraduate mathematics major Melanie Meyer with the Waldemar J. Trjitzinsky Scholarship for 2005-2006.
Each year the AMS (American Mathematical Society) randomly selects a mathematics department which is an institutional member of the AMS, and asks them to select a student for the award. Our department is among those selected for 2005-2006. The scholarships are funded by a 1988 bequest in memory of Waldemar J. Trjitzinsky, and are intended to help needy, talented students pursue their undergraduate studies in mathematics. [You can read about the 2005 Awards.] Congratulations, Melanie! [See picture at right -->. Photographer: Graduate Student Sarah Vaughn.]
5 October 2005: ATTENTION! Mathematics Majors & possible Majors!
The first Fall 2005 gathering of our MAA (Mathematical Association of America) Student Chapter will be on:

Friday October 14
3:00-4:00 pm
Haag Hall Room 109
with Pizza and Soft Drinks!
Followed by
4:00-4:50 pm
Haag Hall Room 309
Expository Mathematics Talk
Mayumi Sakata of William Jewell College
Title: "Subsonic to Supersonic: What's in Between?"
September 2005: To celebrate the open status of our Graduate Program, we announce a new Graduate Seminar Series, featuring (this semester) faculty from within our department. Everyone is welcome.
August 2005: We are now accepting I.Ph.D. applications as both a Coordinating Discipline, and as a Co-Discipline. For more information, contact our Graduate Advisor/Coordinator Dr. Chen.
Fall 2005: In the UMKC Sosland Journal, Mathematics major Samantha Reynolds publishes an expository paper,
"Maria Gaetana Agnesi: Female Mathematician and Brilliant Expositor of the 18th Century",
winning the Advanced Level Essay prize, and mathematics major Newlyn Walkup also publishes an expository paper,
"The Perspective of Girard Desargues".
The two papers were written during Winter 2005 for Math 464 WI (History of Mathematics, Writing Intensive) taught by Richard Delaware.
27 July 2005: We hold our second annual gathering for all Part-time Lecturers and Graduate Teaching Assistants teaching in the department during Fall 2005. Of the 17 Part-time Lecturers hired for Fall, 13 are able to attend, along with some full-time faculty of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, 5 of our 6 Graduate Teaching Assistants, our Interim Chair Bruce Bubacz, and Administrative Assistant Tanya Henderson. In addition to distributing to our Part-time Lecturers and GTAs general and specific information about department policies and the courses they will teach, and just getting to know them, we invite guests from the Math Resource Center, Supplemental Instruction, and Arts & Sciences Academic Advising to address them. For a complete listing of mathematics courses and instructor assignments for Fall 2005 see Current Semester Course Schedules. As a department we continue this annual meeting to encourage from our entire "extended" faculty consistency and a high quality of teaching in all our courses.
July 2005: We launch the first set of Mathematics Entrance Tests in the history of our department. These tests are offered online through the Blackboard program for any student admitted to UMKC. We are still working out details with academic advisors on campus, but generally intend these tests, starting with the Summer 2006 semester, to be a requirement for enrollment in any of the courses: Math 110 (College Algebra), Math 160 (Brief Calculus & Matrix Algebra), and Math 210 (Calculus I). For complete information see Mathematics Entrance Tests. These tests continue to be designed, written, and implemented by the department Mathematics Entrance Test Committee: Richard Delaware, Eric Hall, and Becky Roberts. We thank Mary Crosson of the UMKC Blackboard Support Team for her exceptional assistance as we continue to learn to work with Blackboard. We also thank as well everyone who reviewed and offered valuable comments about the tests and their associated webpages.
9 May 2005: We hear the good news that undergraduate mathematics major Newlyn Walkup has won 1^st place (!) in the second annual HOMSIGMAA (History of Mathematics Special Interest Group of the Mathematical Association of America) contest for papers written in History of Mathematics courses across the country. [Last year on 24 April 2004 we heard that undergraduate mathematics major Heath Yates tied for 1^st place in the first such annual contest.] Newlyn's paper is titled
"Eratosthenes and the Mystery of the Stades."
He will receive a certificate from the MAA, a free MAA student membership for next year, and $25 worth of books from the MAA online bookstore. His paper will also be published on the HOMSIGMAA website. Congratulations, Newlyn! The paper was written during Winter 2005 for Math 464 WI (History of Mathematics, Writing Intensive) taught by Richard Delaware.
28 April 2005: We hear the good news that statistician Yong Zeng has earned tenure and promotion to the rank of Associate Professor beginning September 2005. Congratulations, Yong!
22 April 2005: In the Expository Talks Series, undergraduate mathematics major Melanie Meyer gives a 20 minute talk,
"A 1779 Theorem of 72 year old Leonhard Euler:
The Solution of a Curious Question: Given any series of n letters�, to find how many ways they can be rearranged so that none returns to the position it initially occupied",
and undergraduate mathematics major Joel Hess gives a second 20 minute talk,
"An 1881 Theorem of 21 year old Vito Volterra:
No continuous function on the real numbers takes rationals to irrationals and irrationals to rationals".
For Melanie, the talk was an assignment for Math 464 WI (History of Mathematics), and for Joel, the talk was an assignment for Math 412 (Advanced Analysis II), both taught by Richard Delaware.
6 April 2005: We are pleased to announce that we have chosen undergraduate mathematics major Melanie Meyer to receive a Waldemar J. Trjitzinsky Scholarship for 2005-2006. Each year the AMS (American Mathematical Society) randomly selects a mathematics department which is an institutional member of the AMS, and asks them to select a student for the award. Our department is among those selected for 2005-2006. The scholarships are funded by a 1988 bequest in memory of Waldemar J. Trjitzinsky, and are intended to help needy, talented students pursue their undergraduate studies in mathematics. [You can read about the 2004 Awards.] Congratulations, Melanie!
30 March 2005: With the signing of our two new full-time faculty members, Liana Sega and Kamel Rekab, our Graduate Program is now OPEN for Fall 2005! Applications for graduate school as well as for GTAs (Graduate Teaching Assistant) positions will now be accepted for Fall 2005.
30 March 2005: We hear the good news that Kamel Rekab has accepted our offer to join the Department of Mathematics and Statistics as a Professor, starting Fall 2005. His field is Statistics, with many interdisciplinary connections, and he will initially serve a 3-year term as Department Chair. Kamel is enthusiastic about joining us and will be a welcome addition to our faculty, as well as a strong advocate for our growing Department. Welcome, Kamel! Now, we are nine.
24 March 2005: Richard Delaware is honored at the 2nd Annual Activity & Program Council's UMKC Faculty and Staff Appreciation Day luncheon, having been nominated by one or more students he teaches, advises, or mentors, for having made a positive impact in their lives. On 23 April 2004, both Jie Chen and Rebecca Roberts were so honored.
11 March 2005: We hear the good news that Liana Sega has accepted our offer to join the Department of Mathematics and Statistics as a new Assistant Professor, starting Fall 2005. She will bring her enthusiasm and impressive expertise in Algebra, making us now a group of eight. Welcome, Liana!
13 January 2005: We distribute to all students of Math 160 ("Business Calculus"), a Letter (WORD document) written by the Bloch School of Business and Public Administration to encourage students that this course is essential to their future education, especially in business.
11 January 2005: We distribute the first edition of our Advisor Information Document (WORD document) to Advisors in the School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Biological Sciences, the School of Education, the School of Computing and Engineering, the School of Pharmacy, and the Bloch School of Business and Public Administration. This is part of our continuing effort to provide the UMKC community information about our courses beyond brief catalog descriptions.

2004

13 December 2004: We submit a 2004 Progress Report to the Dean of Arts and Sciences.
7 December 2004: We hear that full-time faculty member and statistician Jie Chen has been awarded an NSF grant for the Winter 2005 semester and beyond: "The National Science Foundation hereby awards a grant of $90,548 to the PI (Principal Investigator): Jie Chen with this project entitled "Statistical Approaches to the Analysis of Genome-wide Measurements: Significance of Periodic Gene Expression and Correlations of Gene Content in Completely Sequenced Genomes." This award is effective December 15, 2004 and expires November 30, 2005. During the Fall 2004 semester Jie has been spending her time at the Stowers Institute in Kansas City on a Development Leave.
3 December 2004: The Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee approves many changes and improvements to our undergraduate mathematics courses, and in particular approves 2 more new courses for the mathematical education of teachers to be gradually offered starting in 2006: Math 234 (Mathematics for Teachers: Probability and Statistics), and Math 244 (Mathematics for Teachers: Calculus). For current offerings, see Current Semester Course Schedules.
19 November 2004: In the Expository Talks Series, mathematics major Carol Hanson gives a 20 minute talk,
"A Proof of Darboux's Theorem: Every Derivative has the Intermediate Value Property",
and mathematics major John Nangle gives a second 20 minute talk,
"The Compactness Theorem: You Too can Color an Infinite Map with Only 4 Crayons".
For Carol, the talk was an assignment for Math 402 (Advanced Analysis I) taught by Richard Delaware, and for John, the talk was an assignment for Math 490 (Set Theory and Models) an individual study course taught by Eric Hall.
15 November 2004: The new Mathematics Advisory Board formed by invitation from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics meets for the first time. The Board's purpose is to be a conduit to other Schools and Departments of UMKC, and to be available to provide valuable advice when requested. We are very pleased they agreed to participate. The present Board consists of:

Rita Barger, School of Education
Deb Chatterjee, School of Computing and Engineering
Stephen DeLurgio, Bloch School of Business and Public Administration
Richard Murphy, Department of Physics, School of Arts and Sciences
Charles Wurrey, Associate Dean, School of Arts and Sciences
Marilyn Yoder, School of Biological Sciences
5 November 2004: The Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee approves many changes and improvements to our undergraduate mathematics courses, and in particular approves 5 new courses for the mathematical education of teachers to be gradually offered starting in 2006: Math 204 (Mathematics for Teachers: Mathematical Immersion), Math 214 (Mathematics for Teachers: Algebra), Math 224 (Mathematics for Teachers: Geometry), Math 414 (Mathematics for Secondary Teachers: Algebra and Analysis), and Math 424 (Mathematics for Secondary Teachers: Geometry). For current offerings, see Current Semester Course Schedules.
30 October 2004: Full-time faculty member and statistician Yong Zeng is quoted in a Kansas City Star article by James A. Fussell on page A-1, about whether the winning record of the Washington professional football team in its last home game before the election accurately predicts the presidential winner, especially since it has done so since 1936. The article goes on to say: "The odds of one team correctly predicting the winner 17 times in a row? Not good, said Yong Zeng, a statistics professor at the University of Missouri - Kansas City. Try less than eight in a million. "Of course, this has no bearing on the current election," Yong cautioned. "We're just having fun." ".
October 2004: Mathematics education major Carrie Andersen publishes an expository paper about the famous Konigsberg Bridge problem,
"The Origination of Euler's Path",
and mathematics major Heath Yates also publishes an expository paper,
"An Emanji Temple Geometry Tablet",
in the UMKC Sosland Journal, now published online. The two papers were written during Winter 2004 for Math 464 WI (History of Mathematics, Writing Intensive) taught by Richard Delaware.
September 2004: We receive approval to hire two new full-time faculty members to start employment in Fall 2005, one of whom will begin with a 3-year term as Chair. We plan to form a search committee, gather applications this Fall and eventually invite some candidates to speak here during Winter 2005, by the end of which a decision will be made. These two new hires would bring us up to 9 full-time members of the department.
28 July 2004: We hold our first ever gathering for all Part-time Lecturers teaching in the department during Fall 2004. Of the 16 Part-time Lecturers hired for Fall, 14 are able to attend, and all members of the "new" Department of Mathematics and Statistics (consisting of the remaining 7 of us full-time faculty) as well as our Interim Chair Bruce Bubacz, administrative assistant Tanya Henderson, and 5 Graduate Teaching Assistants are also present. In addition to distributing to our Part-time Lecturers general and specific information about department policies and the courses they will teach, and just getting to know them, we invite guests from the Math Resource Center, Supplemental Instruction, and Arts & Sciences Academic Advising to address them. For a complete listing of mathematics courses and instructor assignments for Fall 2004 see Current Semester Course Schedules. As a department we initiated this meeting to encourage from our entire "extended" faculty consistency and a high quality of teaching in all our courses.
8 July 2004: Members of the "new" Department of Mathematics and Statistics (consisting of the remaining 7 of us full-time faculty) meet with faculty, advisors, an associate Dean, and an assistant Dean from the Bloch School of Business and Public Administration to discuss Math 160 ("Business Calculus") and our other undergraduate course offerings, and how we might modify old courses or create new ones, re-arrange our scheduling, and so on, in order to better meet their needs. The meeting is welcomed and generates many ideas.
30 June 2004: Full-time faculty member Rebecca Roberts takes on the role of GTA (Graduate Teaching Assistant) Supervisor. She will supervise, train, and mentor our 5 current GTAs. Becky is the recent recipient of the 2004 Dean's Outstanding Teaching Award for Non-Regular Faculty.
June 2004: Full-time faculty member and senior statistician Jie Chen has been granted a Development Leave for the 2004-2005 academic year. During the Fall 2004 semester she will be spending her time at the Stowers Institute in Kansas City. The purpose of such a leave is "to free faculty members from their normal University duties to pursue scholarly interests full-time and maintain their professional standing so that they may return to the University with renewed vigor, perspectives, and insights."
24 June 2004: We hear that full-time faculty member Richard Delaware has been appointed Associate Clinical Professor in the Dept.
22 June 2004: We hear the good news that full-time faculty member Rebecca Roberts is the recipient of the 2004 Dean's Outstanding Teaching Award for Non-Regular Faculty. She will be honored at the College of Arts & Sciences Convocation on August 26. For her 20+ years of dedicated and exemplary teaching we say congratulations, Becky!
18 June 2004: Members of the "new" Department of Mathematics and Statistics (consisting of the remaining 7 of us full-time faculty) meet with faculty from Business, Computer Science, and Civil Engineering to discuss our undergraduate statistics offerings (Math 235, Math 436, Math 441) and how we might modify old courses or create new ones, re-arrange our scheduling, and so on, in order to better meet their needs. The meeting is welcomed and generates many ideas.
10 June 2004: Members of the "new" Department of Mathematics and Statistics (consisting of the remaining 7 of us full-time faculty) meet with the Dean and faculty from the School of Computing and Engineering to discuss our undergraduate course offerings and how we might modify old courses or create new ones, re-arrange our scheduling, and so on, in order to better meet their needs. The meeting is welcomed and generates many ideas.
21 May 2004: Members of the "new" Department of Mathematics and Statistics (consisting of the remaining 7 of us full-time faculty) meet with the staff of the Center for Academic Development to discuss a closer relationship with the Math Resource Center, how we might work together more efficiently and expand our tutorial support for undergraduate students of mathematics. The meeting is welcomed and generates many ideas.
7 May 2004: Members of the "new" Department of Mathematics and Statistics (consisting of the remaining 7 of us full-time faculty) meet with many of our mathematics High School Adjunct Faculty at the annual High School/College Program mathematics dinner. The meeting is welcomed and generates much enthusiasm for a closer relationship between us.
30 April 2004: Mathematics majors, mathematics graduate students, and potential majors and minors gather for the first time with the members of the "new" Department of Mathematics and Statistics (consisting of the remaining 7 of us full-time faculty) to eat pizza and learn about the establishment of a UMKC MAA Student Chapter (Mathematical Association of America). The MAA Student Chapter sponsor/advisor will be Hristo Voulov.
29 April 2004: Members of the "new" Department of Mathematics and Statistics (consisting of the remaining 7 of us full-time faculty) meet with faculty from Economics, Nursing, and Psychology to discuss our undergraduate statistics offerings (Math 235, Math 436, Math 441) and how we might modify old courses or create new ones, re-arrange our scheduling, and so on, in order to better meet their needs. The meeting is welcomed and generates many ideas.
24 April 2004: We hear the good news that undergraduate mathematics major Heath Yates has tied for 1^st place (!) in the first annual HOMSIGMAA (History of Mathematics Special Interest Group of the Mathematical Association of America) contest for papers written in History of Mathematics courses across the country. His paper is titled
"An Emanji Temple Geometry Tablet."
He will receive a certificate from the MAA, a free MAA student membership for next year, and a $25 shopping spree on MAA Online. His paper will also be published on the HOMSIGMAA website. Congratulations, Heath! The paper was written during Winter 2004 for Math 464 WI (History of Mathematics, Writing Intensive) taught by Richard Delaware.
23 April 2004: Two Mathematics faculty members, Jie Chen and Rebecca Roberts are honored at the 1st Annual Activity & Program Council's UMKC Faculty and Staff Appreciation Day luncheon, having been nominated by the students they teach, advise, or mentor, for having made a positive impact in their lives. Congratulations, Jie and Becky!
19 April 2004: Members of the "new" Department of Mathematics and Statistics (consisting of the remaining 7 of us full-time faculty) meet with faculty from Mathematics Education to discuss our course offerings (Math 130, Math 140) for teachers and how we might modify old courses or create new ones, re-arrange our scheduling, and so on, in order to better meet their needs. The meeting is welcomed and generates many ideas.
April 2004: Statistics Doctoral student Steven Shattuck is awarded one of only three 3-year Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) Fellowships from the UMKC School of Graduate Studies. His Ph.D advisor is Jie Chen.
16 April 2004: The Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee approves many changes and improvements to our undergraduate mathematics courses, and in particular approves a new course, Math 105 (The Language of Mathematics), to be first offered in Winter 2005. See Current Semester Course Schedules.
16 April 2004: In the Expository Talks Series, mathematics education graduate student Karla Childs gives a 20 minute talk,
"A Lesson from Fibonacci: Leonardo Pisano's Liber Abaci (Book of Calculation) 1202",
and mathematics graduate student Louis Schenck gives a second 20 minute talk,
"Erdos' Simple 1932 Proof of Bertrand's Postulate: For any integer n > 2 there is a prime p such that n < p < 2n".
For Karla, the talk was an assignment for Math 464 WI (History of Mathematics, Writing Intensive) taught by Richard Delaware.
16 April 2004: Mathematics major and secondary education major senior Dion McNeal is named the UMKC recipient of the Coca-Cola Community All-American award as the student-athlete who has helped make the biggest difference in the community. See UMKC Announcements.
5 April 2004: The College of Arts and Sciences Provost and Dean appoints, as new Interim Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Bruce Bubacz, former Chair of the Department of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy and Law, University Distinguished Professor, and former Interim Dean of Arts and Sciences. This follows a recommendation of the Math Committee which submitted its Final Report to the Provost on February 4.
2 April 2004: The Chancellor's Fund for Innovation announces 18 awardees, including a proposal of the Center for Academic Development in partnership with the Department of Mathematics and Statistics to produce a series of 50 minute Calculus I video tapes similar to the VSI College Algebra video tapes created in 1998. These Calculus I video tapes will be designed by and feature Richard Delaware.
20 March 2004: In the MAA Kansas Section Meeting held at Benedictine College in Atchison, KS, mathematics education graduate student Karla Childs gives a talk titled
"The Rise of Algebra",
winning an "Outstanding Paper Award" (and $50!) in the Graduate Student Paper Competition. This talk was first written as an expository paper during Winter 2004 for Math 464 WI (History of Mathematics, Writing Intensive) taught by Richard Delaware.
March 2004: Both Eric Hall and Hristo Voulov are approved as Doctoral Faculty in the Department.
February 2004: Yong Zeng receives an award of $10,155 from the University of Missouri Research Board. See the UM System newsletter Spectrum, February 2004, Vol. 31, No. 1, p. 3.
4 February 2004: The Math Committee submits its Final Report to the Provost. This committee was appointed by the Provost, held eight meetings from September 24, 2003, to February 4, 2004, and was charged in particular with making recommendations regarding "a strategic plan for" and "the mission and structure of the Department".
12 January 2004: The Department launches its new website, designed and to be maintained by Richard Delaware and Eric Hall.

2003

3 December 2003: Frank Mader and Linda Smitka, two students of statistician Yong Zeng in Math 235 (Elementary Statistics), report on their count of the crowd at the Plaza Lighting Ceremony. See Kansas City Star article, p. F-1, Cowtown Confidential Column by Hearne Christopher, Jr., "Salon owner shoots down Plaza's crowd count." The owner Gary Evert of the salon Persona asked Zeng to arrange this experiment. In the end, the estimated counts are: Evert - 31,603, Mader - 34,700, and Smitka - 31,513. These are a far cry from the 250,000-300,000 estimates mentioned by the media.
Fall 2003: Eric Hall and Hristo Voulov join the faculty as new hires.
Fall 2003: Mathematics graduate student Melissa Menning publishes an expository paper about Kepler,
"A Revolution in Astronomy",
in the UMKC Sosland Journal, and wins 3^rd place prize in the UMKC Ilus W. Davis Writing Competition, WI Division. The paper was written during Winter 2003 for Math 464 WI (History of Mathematics, Writing Intensive) taught by Richard Delaware.
11 April 2003: In the Expository Talks Series, mathematics major Sarah Vaughn gives a 20 minute talk,
"Falling Down: The Proof of Galileo's Nearly Correct Path of Quickest Descent",
and mathematics graduate student Christina Miller gives a second 20 minute talk,
"Albert Girard 1629: The First Statement of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra".
The talks were assignments during Winter 2003 for Math 464 WI (History of Mathematics, Writing Intensive) taught by Richard Delaware.

2002

Fall 2002: Undergraduate mathematics major Kristin DeBolt publishes a book review essay,
"Fermat's Enigma: The Book that Proves Mathematics is Anything but Boring",
in the UMKC Sosland Journal, and wins 2^nd place prize in the UMKC Ilus W. Davis Writing Competition, WI Division. The paper was written during Winter 2002 for Math 464 WI (History of Mathematics, Writing Intensive) taught by Richard Delaware.
July 2002: Graduate student Alietia Caughron (whose advisor was James Foran, professor emeritus) travels to Ischia, Italy to present research results in measure theory to members of the European mathematical community attending the tenth biannual "Meeting on Real Analysis and Measure Theory." See Perspectives: The Newsmagazine of the University of Missouri - Kansas City, Vol. 11, No. 1, Winter 2003 issue, p. 3.

2001

16 April 2001: Graduate student Allison Hartnett is favorably featured in a University News article on p.6, titled "Algebra 110 Review".