Trevor Gionet '12 has been selected to receive a Fulbright Teaching Assistant grant to Vietnam. This highly competitive program selected just 10 students to receive a position in Vietnam. In addition to teaching English at a collegiate level, Gionet will learn to teach math - in Vietnamese.
"You often think of math as a universal language, but it's not necessarily true; learning mathematical term... More >>
Although Cape Cod is a vacation destination for most, Rachel Carnahan '12 spent her summer on Cape Cod hard at work. An economics major and math and environmental studies minor, Carnahan interned at the Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (WBNERR) in East Falmouth, Mass.
One of 27 national estuarine research reserves in the country, WBNERR studies the estuary at Waquoit Bay, hosts ca... More >>
Rachel Carnahan '12 is interning this summer with Margaret Munro, E.A. in Essex Junction, Vermont. A junior from Montpelier, Carnahan is working with Munro on a number of projects the tax preparer has planned.
As an Enrolled Agent, Munro is certified by the Internal Revenue Service to represent taxpayers before the agency. She currently runs her own boutique tax practice, after having previously... More >>
On Monday, March 22, Debra Boutin, associate professor of mathematics at Hamilton College, will deliver a talk about graphs and symmetry at 4:45 p.m. in the Sanford Room in the Warren Hunting Smith Library. Sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Boutin's talk will cover some of the following questions: - Can a given graph be embedded in Euclidean space (of some dimension) so that its Euclidean symmetries are precisely its graph symmetr... More >>
This semester, five William Smith students attended the 12th annual Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics. Recently, the women gathered in Napier Hall and presented a talk on campus "Between Complexity and Real Life Mathematics" that gave them the chance to share with other Hobart and William Smith students what they learned at the conference. The group discussed the benefits... More >>
With grants from the National Science Foundation and National Institute of Health, degrees from prestigious universities like Brown, Yale and Princeton, and participation in a wide range of community endeavors, eight HWS faculty members were recently granted tenure by the HWS Board of Trustees and given the rank of associate professor, effective July 1, 2010. Additionally, retired HWS librarian P... More >>
Two HWS teams recently travelled to SUNY Fredonia to compete in the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) computer programming contest. The annual ACM contest required student teams to design and write computer programs to solve nine problems in five hours. The regional programming competition leads to the World finals held in Harbin, China, in the spring.
The HWS team, consisting of seniors ... More >>
"No time like the present" says it all for David Casey '10 and Katie Michalek '10, who are both on the hub of the financial and economic world this summer, with internships at JP Morgan, one of the oldest financial services firms in the world.
An economics major and mathematics and international relations minor, Casey is working as a summer analyst in the Special Credits Group, which, he says, "i... More >>
Gary Roberts '81 isn't spending his summer like an average home rehab and real estate investor. The former math and physics major from Seattle, W.A. is currently on an adventure traveling cross country with his wife, Ellen Caise, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington, and his 15- yr. old dog, Brindil.
Robert's journey began on May 16 to visit his sister in Old Town, Maine, and ... More >>
William Smith student Laura Valdmanis '10 from Minnesota is working on a Community Based Research project with the Geneva Recreation Department to improve the farmer's market this summer. A German major and mathematics and international relations minor, Valdmanis embraces a plethora of interests, including a passion for community affairs and enthusiasm for locally-grown foods. Among her goals for ... More >>
