Searchable Databases Expanded (fall 1999 newsletter)

The searchable database of articles published in Mathematics Magazine has been expanded to include articles from the College Mathematics Journal. One hundred years of the American Mathematical Monthly are also now available for searching and browsing on JSTOR. For more information, visit http://www.maa.org/news/news.html.

1999-2016 Newsletter Information

• Burton W. Jones Award for Distinguish Teaching of College or University Mathematics
  • citation (fall)
  • nomination material
• Section Officers (except information spring 2000 through spring 2004)
• Governor's report
• Chair's report
• Nominating Committee Report
• Colorado Mathematics Awards report(fall)
• Longtime members announced
• Math through the ages (introduction to meeting report) 1999-2003
• MAA-RMS meeting report (fall)
  • keynote addresses
  • panels
  • workshops
  • contributed papers/talks (identification of student papers)
  • business meeting minutes ($5k in 2000 to $13.3K in 2015 )
  • executive committee minutes
  • meeting registration and banquet cost (range)
  • school news
  
   
  

  Year	School	Total Contributed Papers	Student Papers	Participants	Students
  1999	ASC	31	10	100	22
  2000	CSU	48	15	208	59
  2001	WSC	26	9	135	42
  2002	UW	46	11	142	40
  2003	USAFA	54	29	165	45
  2004	CC	38	14	175
  2005	UNC	32	8	164	57
  2006	Mesa	56	30
  2007	CSUP	66	22
  2008	BHSU
  2009	CSM	68	31	110	50
  2010	CSU	77	43(speakers)	204	91
  2011	UCB	52	17
  2012	UCD/MSCD/CCD	70	45	200	80
  2013	ASU	33	14	100	30
  2014	UW	37	4
  2015	CC	70	17
  2016	CMU	88	29	188

  
   
  
• Student Activities

  Pikes Peak Regional Undergraduate Mathematics Conference

  • announcement
  • meeting report (2004–2009, 2014, 2016(thirteenth))
  • participants (76 in 2004 - 180 in 2014 - 120 in 2016)
  • contributed papers (18 in 2004 , 23 in 2014 , 16 in 2016)

  (SIAM)Front Range Undergraduate Mathematics Conference announcement - 2005, 2008, 2010-2016

• School News (updated through spring 2017)

  Adams State College	f03
  Arapahoe Community College	f00,s02,f03,f04,f06,s07,f07,f08,f09,f10,f13
  Black Hills State University	f09,f10,s11,f11,f13,f15
  Community College of Aurora	s03,s04
  Colorado College	s03,f03,f04.s05,f05
  Colorado Mesa University	f15, s17
  Colorado School of Mines	f03,f08,f09,f10,f11,f12,s13,f13,s14,f14,s15,f15,s16,f16
  Colorado State University — Ft. Collins	f99,f01,f02,s12,f13
  Colorado State University — Pueblo	f03,f04,f05,f06,s09,f11,f15,f17
  University of Denver	f02, f10, f14
  Fort Lewis College	f99,f00,s06,s07
  Mesa State College	f00,s02,f03,s06,f06
  Metropolitan State College of Denver	s99,f00,f01,s03,f03,s04,f04,s05,f05,f07,s08,f09,s10,f10,f11,s12,f12
  Metropolitan State University of Denver	f13,f14,s15,f15,f16
  Otero Junior College	s01
  Red Rocks Community College	s04,f06
  Regis University	f05,f06,s14,f14,f15
  South Dakota School of Mines and Technology	s02,s04,f06,s07,f07,f08,s09,s10,f10,f11,f12,s13,f13,f14,f15,f16,s17
  Trinidad State Junior College	f02
  United States Air Force Academy	f03,f12,f13
  University of Colorado at Boulder	f99,f00,f01,s03,f03,f04,f05,f06,f07,f08,f09,f11,s12,f12,s13,f13,s14,s15,f15,s16,f16
  University of Colorado at Colorado Springs	f11,f12,f13,f15,s16
  University of Colorado at Denver	s01,f01,s02,f08,f10,s11,f11,f12,s14,f14,f16
  University of Northern Colorado	f99,s02,f02,f05,s07,f07,s08,f08,s09,f09,s10,f10,s11,s12,f12,s14,f14,s17
  University of Southern Colorado	f99,f00,f01,s02,f02
  University of Wyoming	f05,s07,f07,s08,f08,s09,f09,f12,f15,f16
  Western State College	f99,f11
  Western State Colorado University	f12

  
   
  
• Section Activity Grant (since fall 2000, initiated April 1995)
• Student Recognition Grant (since fall 2003)
• Voluntary Section Dues (since fall 2000)
• Upcoming Meeting (since spring 2000)
• Section Mission statement
• About the MAA-RMS LOGO

Selected Observations from Newsletter 1999-present

• University of Northern Colorado $100K grant k-12 education
• University of Southern Colorado Math Camp for young women

• Meeting keynote speakers - Briggs, Gallian, Tatersall
• Metropolitan State College=100 elementary aged girls summer camp

• MAA-RMS Logo
• MAA guidelines for Programs on Departments in Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences
• AKAMAI supports Colorado Mathematics Awards

• Electronic newsletter considered

• Colorado State University - Pueblo

• Four pictures in newsletter
• Pikes Peak Regional Undergraduate Mathematic Conference
  • participants (76 in 2004 - 180 in 2014 - 120 in 2016)
  • contributed papers (18 in 2004 - 23 in 2014 - 16 in 2016)
• Project ACCCESS
• Plans for MAA 100 years
• CUPM Curriculum Guide
• ColoMATYC separate conference
• Undergraduate poster session (Riley) ; student activities become increasing part of section meeting hereafter

• SIAM Front Range Undergraduate Mathematic Conferences
• University of Wyoming Summer Institute for Wyoming High School and Middle School Teacher (since 1989)

• HTML version of newsletter (main newsletter beginning spring 2007)

• MAA-RMS endorses AAUP statement of academic freedom
• Graduate Student contributed paper session

• Exxon Mobile sponsors section meeting at Colorado School of Mines
• 25th Colorado Mathematics Olympiad at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
• Section members at national meetings in Washington DC (left to right Jeff Berg, Janet Heine Barnett, Daluss Siewert, Hortensia Soto-Johnson, Kyle Riley, Mike Brilleslyper)
• Picture of section brick - fundraising for carriage house

• The University of Colorado at Boulder meeting program highlights talks from MAA President David Bressoud (Macalister College), and Polya Lecturer, Judy Walker (University of Nebraska.
• Registration is now open for the MAA's 2010 series of Professional Enhancement Program (PREP) workshops (continuing). There are both online workshop and onsite workshops. For more information, visit http://www.maa.org/prep/.
• MAA institutes Polya Lecture series (each section every 5 years)
• Soto-Johnson elected as Governor at large for Minority interses

• Section activity grants awarded to Pikes Peak Regional Undergraduate Mathematics Conference and Rocky Mountain Math Teachers' Circles.
• Candidate biographies
  • Chair Elect: Alexander Hulpke, William Cherowitzo
  • Secretary: Lynne Ipina, Heidi Keck
  • Governor: Mike Brilleslyper, Curtis Card, John Watkins
• Hortensia Soto-Johnson receives Rocky Mountain Section Certificate of Meritorious Service award
• 9th Annual Pikes Peak Regional undergraduate conference at Colorado College
• Rocky Mountain Section NExT News.
• Message from CCTM Liaison
• Rocky Mountain Math Teacher Circle

• MAA centennial celebration anticipated
• 8th Annual SIAM Front Range Conference at the University of Colorado at Denver
• 17th Colorado Mathematics Award Ceremony/Reception
• Metropolitan Sate College of Denver, The University of Colorado at Denver, and the Community College of Denver meeting on April 13-14, 2012 Features invited speakers, Mr Rich Bogdanovich, Dr. Robin Wilson, Dr. Douglas Easley, Dr. Walter Stromquist, and Dr. Michael Dorff
• Featured Workshop Using Webwork in Mathematics Courses
• Denver Teaching Fellows Program announced
• 25 undergraduate talks and 19 graduate student talks at 2012 meeting
• Rockies baseball game event at 2012 meeting

• RUME Conference February 11-13, 2013
• Declining membership at the national level
• CCTM news
• Pictures more prominent in school news

• National Membership down to 12000
• Colorado School of Mines and Denver Public Schools STEM collaborations

• MAA 100th Anniversary
• Section meeting at Colorado College April 17, 2015 features
  • three plenary speakers: William Dunham (George Polya Lecture), Karen Saxe, and Anne Dougherty (the 2014-15 Burton W. Jones Award winner)
  • Special sessions on the following topics:
    • The History of Mathematics
    • Numerical Algebraic Geometry
    • Research in Mathematics Education
    • Innovations in the Classroom
    • Graduate Student paper session
    • Undergraduate Student paper session
  • Workshop on Friday morning, demonstrating ways to incorporate the fitting of models to data in courses across the undergraduate mathematics curriculum.
• Proposed By-laws revisions
• Section historical documents to section website
• 2015 George Púlya Award for Mike Brilleslyper and Beth Schaubroeck
• Transforming Instruction in Undergraduate Mathematics via Primary Historical Sources - TRIUMPHS
• Mathematical Association of America - Rocky Mountain Section banner

• Joint Meeting with Intermountain Section Colorado Mesa University April 8-9, 2016 features plenary speakers; Janet Heine Barnett, Robert Devaney, Robin Wilson, Robert Palais
• Big Data on the Great Plains South Dakota State University June 22-24, 2016
• Section accepts donations in support of Pikes Peak Regional Undergraduate Mathematics Conference
• Section survey
• Jeopardy! added to student activities
• Rebecca Swanson from the Colorado School of Mines awarded the first annual 2016 Early Career Teaching Award
• Active Learning Day (national government initiative) takes place on Tuesday, October 25, 2016.

• Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award awarded to Janet Heine Barnett CSU - Pueblo
• MAA-RMS 100th Anniversary meeting features planary speaker's Hortensia Soto Johnson, Brian Hopkins, and Timothy Chartier
• Pre-conference workshop "Active Learning Boot Camp" with UCD's RaKissa Manzanares and Gary Olson