Tue 21 Apr 2009
The following Mathematics Department TAs are recognized this month as part of the 2009 Purdue Celebration of Graduate Student Teaching:
Graduate School Excellence in Teaching Award
Purdue University Graduate Student Award for Outstanding Teaching
Tue 21 Apr 2009
The 2008-2009 Ruth and Joel Spira Teaching Award recipients were honored on April 16. This award recognizes professors who excel in teaching and inspiring students
This years’ awardees are:
Thu 2 Apr 2009
Artists Scott Frankenberger and Linda Vanderkolk will talk about non-repeating tile patterns — “Penrose tilings” — at a Math Club sponsored talk Thursday, April 9, at 6 pm in Armstrong 1010.
Frankenberger and Vanderkolk were top math students in their high schools and started college as math majors before switching to art. Frankenberger is a Purdue alumnus and former visiting ceramics instructor. Vanderkolk is a continuing lecturer in the Patti and Rusty Rueff Department of Visual and Performing Arts.
They worked together to create the mural “Tesselation Tango” at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkley, California and a mural at Ivy Tech’s main hall. Frankenberger has also created murals for Purdue’s Food Science Building and Caterpillar in Lafayette.