Announcements

• Fall 2019 Newsletter

  The Fall 2019 Newsletter is now available here.

• Call for Nominations

  Every year at the Spring meeting, the Section awards the Meritorious Serivce Award and the Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics.  We have many deserving individuals in our section and would like your help to identify them!

  NOTE: The deadline for nominations February 15, 2020.

  For the Meritorious Service Award please follow this (link).
  For the Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics, follow this (link).

• Fall 2019 Section Meeting

  Concordia College, Moorhead, MN   October 18-19, 2019

  Complete information may be found here.

  

What's happening in our section, Region, and the MAA?

• MUDAC 2020 (The Ninth Annual Midwest Undergraduate Data Analytics Competition)

  This competition will be held on March 28 - 29, 2020 at Minnesota State University, Mankato. More information here.

• Apply for MAA Funding

  Applications are now open for Dolciani, Tensor-SUMMA, Tensor Women, and PIC Math Grants. More Information here.  

• Register for a Summer StatPREP Workshop (unfortunately none are in our section) 

  StatPREP will host four regional workshops in summer 2020 focused on helping faculty learn to teach modern methods of data analytics in introductory statistics courses. For more information on the content of these workshops please click here. 

  These workshops are open to any faculty member teaching post-secondary intro stats over the next academic year. There is no registration fee for the workshop and all workshop expenses are covered through support from the National Science Foundation. Funds up to $100 are available for each participant to offset local travel expenses.

  • May 29-30, 2020: Florida Southwestern State College, Fort Myers, FL
  • June 3-4, 2020: Tarrant County College, Fort Worth, TX
  • June 5-6, 2020: Essex County College, Newark, NJ
  • June 12-13, 2020: Howard Community College, Columbia, MD

  To register for a workshop, please click here. 

• MinneMUDAC 2019 (MinneAnalytics' Fall Student Data Science Challenge) took place November 9, 2019. 

  Congratulations to teams from our section who earned recognition!  More information can be found here.

• The MAA-NCS Team Competition is over for 2019!

  The contest took place Saturday, November 16 from 9:00 am to noon.  Winners as available will be found here.

• Consider administering the American Mathematics Competitions (AMC) for Middle School and High School

For more information:  https://amc-reg.maa.org/?code=1920HP

Registration deadlines are: October 29, 2019 - AMC 8  (middle school),  December 2, 2019- AMC 10/12 A  (high school) , and January 3, 2020, AMC 10/12 B

• Accolades

  Congratulations to Augsburg University's, Su Dorée, for receiving one of three MAA Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Awards given in 2019. More information about the award can be found here.