The Department of Mathematics and Statistics held a dinner in Johnston Hall on April 29 to celebrate its graduating seniors, scholarship recipients, award winners and honor society inductees.
The following students received departmental awards:
- Outstanding Academic Achievement Award in Mathematics: Nicole Elizabeth Miles and Mary Gardner Macdonald
- Outstanding Academic Achievement Award in Statistics: Erin Donahue
- Outstanding Experiential Learning Award in Statistics: Stephanie Lobaugh
Departmental Scholarships were awarded to the following outstanding students:
- Alonzo Cee
- Jaclyn DeVincent
- Alexis Goslen
- Peter Jakes
- Stephanie Lobaugh
- Erin Murnane
- Nathan Pool
- Kelly Reagan
The department also held its Pi Mu Epsilon inductions at the dinner. Pi Mu Epsilon is the nation’s most prestigious mathematics honorary society, chartered at Elon University on Oct. 23, 2003. The purpose of the society is to promote scholarly activity in mathematics among the students in academic institutions.
The following students were inducted: Taylor Christine Cesarski, Erin Kathleen Clough, Erin Elizabeth Donahue, Robin Baldwin French, Eric James Goding, Alexis Marie Goslen, Amy Joann Heaton, Peter Lawrence Jakes, Benjamin Charles Kaiser, Paul C. Kantlehner, Jacob B. Kelner, Ann H. Le Houillier, Stephanie Marie Lobaugh, Jaime Noelle Morin, Timothy Galen Pattison and Sara Elizabeth Rodgers.
At the event, the Pi Mu Epsilon Research Award for Outstanding achievement in dissemination of mathematics research was awarded to the following students from the class of 2015:
- Madeline Edwards
- Robin French
- Mary (Maggie) Gardner Macdonald
- Nicole Miles