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  • Building a Custom PC for the UX Lab

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    anienow2

    Erin Kock, Peacebridge Osei, and Andreas Xu joined me in what was an incredible experience. We got together on a Friday afternoon to assemble the machine and from the moment we started assembling the components, it was clear that we were working with a team of highly skilled individuals.

  • MCS Scholarship: Dr. Jeff Ford

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    anienow2

      Since Summer of 2021 Dr. Jeff Ford has been a Team-based Inquiry Learning fellow at the NSF-funded TBIL institute at University of South Alabama. This is a group of faculty who work to write open-source textbooks using the TBIL pedagogy and conduct research on the effectiveness of this teaching method, In Summer 2023 Dr.…

  • Patricia Lindell Scholarship Application Now Open!

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    jpeter13

    Every other year, the Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library awards a junior or senior student the Patricia Lindell Scholarship, established through the generosity of the Friends of the Library – Gustavus Library Associates. The recipient will be awarded $1,200 to undertake a research project of value to the Library and/or the wider Gustavus community. The scholarship…

  • MCS Scholarship

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    anienow2

     Dr. Jacob Siehler published an article the College Math Journal titled New Problems in Port-and-Sweep Solitaire. You can read a copy of the article here. You can learn more about Port-and-Sweep Solitaire along with Dr. Siehler’s other research interests by visiting his homepage.

  • MCS Scholarship

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    anienow2

        Dr. Ella Burnham co-lead a breakout session titled “How to communicate in an online statistics course“. The session was part of the summer meeting of the United States Conference on Teaching Statistics at State College in Pennsylvania.

  • MCS Scholarship

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    anienow2

      Congratulations to Dr. Jillian Downey. Her paper titled Implementation of Alternative Grading Methods in a Mathematical Statistics Course has been accepted into the Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education. An advanced copy of the article can be found here.

  • MCS Scholarship

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    anienow2

    Congratulations to Dr. Laura Hildreth for her article entitled Writing Workshops to Foster Written Communication Skills in Statistics Graduate Students  in The Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education.  

  • MCS Summer Scholarship: Fun and Games

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    anienow2

    How far can a model army advance into a one-dimensional desert, using only finite resources and prescribed types of movement?