STEM subject teaching fellowship

The Woodrow Wilson Foundation is currently recruiting candidates to the Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship, for this year’s first deadline, October 23. This prestigious fellowship provides top applicants with unparalleled opportunities: a generous stipend...

on 3D printers

Linda Taalman has been teaching a 3D printer course at James Madison University http://educ.jmu.edu/~taalmala/ here is an AMS article on 3D printers http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fc-2014-03 here is a wikipedia article on 3D printing...

two recent statistics-related conferences

Here are two statistics-related conferences that Dr. Mel Crotzer attended recently. The conference at Buff State focused on Data analytics.  Presentations included how UB & Buff State are incorporating this into curricula. Industry & Erie County gave...

Guidelines for Undergraduate Statistics Programs

The American Statistical Association is updating their guidelines for undergraduate statistics programs and a draft of the guidelines is available (link below). The guide is general, but the position papers and presentations may be of interest. For example, there are...

service learning?

from an MAA blog posting: Service-Learning and Making a Difference, a guest post by Karl-Dieter Crisman, Friday, July 11, 2014.    Some math examples he is familiar with. +Analyzing energy use and sustainability practices on campus (quantitative reasoning) +Assessing...