Math and Dual-degree Engineering News
Ariel Brown (electrical engineering) and Azekah Griffiths (mechanical engineering) have completed their dual degree requirements at Georgia Tech and were awarded their Wesleyan degrees at graduation on May 12. Ariel has a summer internship with Lockheed-Martin, and both she and Azekah will be starting graduate studies at Tech in the fall.
Mathematics majors Connie (Yi) Kang (2008) and Amanda Wilson (2007), along with faculty member Dr. Joe Iskra, attended the national American Mathematical Society - Mathematical Association of America joint meeting in New Orleans Jan. 4 - 8, 2007. The students, besides getting to sample some real Cajun food, attended talks on a variety of mathematical topics and gained information on career paths and graduate schools. A highlight was meeting up with Hannah Callender (Class of 2001), who is finishing her PhD studies at Vanderbilt University. Hannah presented a short talk on her research, "Purinergic Receptor Signaling in the RAW 264.7 Macrophage", in which she uses a system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations to model the functions of a type of white blood cell.
Hannah Callender will be defending her PhD thesis at Vanderbilt University on May 23, 2007. Hannah was recently awarded by Vanderbilt the 12th Annual Bjarni Jonsson Prize for Research in Mathematics. She has accepted a post-doctoral position with the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, located on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota.
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