Welcome to the Spring 2023 issue of the Integral! This year we welcome four new colleagues – statistician Colton Gearhart and mathematics educators Josh Mannix, Jenna Menke, and Bima Sapkota.  Each brings a wealth of experience, and we are excited to have them join us!

Congratulations to Dr. Mir Masoom Ali and Holly Dickin for their efforts to advance scholarship and teaching excellence. Mir served as Guest Editor of a special issue of the MDPI journal PROCESSES and, together with colleagues, Holly presented “Practical Tips for Student Success” at Ball State’s inaugural Student Success Summit.

Please see details on each of these, as well as other departmental events and accomplishments of alumnus Chris Leininger (Mathematics, 1997).

Our department continues to publish the Mathematics Exchange - our peer-reviewed undergraduate research journal. If you haven’t had a chance to read the latest articles, I encourage you to do so—a link to all the issues (available in pdf format) can be found in this newsletter.

Sincerely,
Michael A. Karls
Chairperson
Department of Mathematical Sciences

Please join us in welcoming our new Mathematical Sciences Faculty, who began teaching in Fall 2022! Visit the following links for more information about our new faculty.

Colton Gearhart

Josh Mannix

Jenna Menke

Bima Sapkota

The Ball State Council of Teachers of Mathematics (BSCTM) hosted four major events over the semester for students in mathematics education. Check out the following link to explore the memories made by our math teaching students.

Dr. Mir Masoom Ali received a certificate of service for serving as Guest Editor of the Special Issue “Data Modeling with an Advanced Probabilistic Approach for Engineering and Bioscience Related Fields,” in the MDPI Journal PROCESSES, based in Basel, Switzerland, for December 2022.

Holly Dickin co-presented “Practical Tips for Student Success” (focusing on the first six weeks) with Kristen McCauliff and Lisa Beck at the Ball State Student Success Summit. They presented four sessions, two on Thursday, September 15, and two on Friday, September 16. Several faculty from our department (and Dean McCarthy) attended, and the speakers appreciate their support and participation. Read More

Check out our interview with Christopher Leininger from the class of 1997! Chris has just been named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and is a professor at Rice University. Read More

The Mathematics Exchange is a journal for undergraduate research in the mathematical sciences, including pure mathematics, mathematics education, statistics, and actuarial science. Often the articles are written by undergraduates individually, working in teams, or working with faculty. On occasion, we also include articles written solely by faculty as long as they are accessible to undergraduates. All issues of the journal are freely available online at
https://digitalresearch.bsu.edu/mathexchange/.

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