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Volume 6: 2007-08 Academic Year

Date	Issue
Sept 5, 2007	Vol. 6, No. 1: Root Beer Floats, Stephanie Edwards, Barber's Kids Problem, Tales from the South Pacific
Sept 19, 2007	Vol. 6, No. 2: Polynomial Colloquium, Pascal, Page Folding Problem, Janet Andersen Award
Oct 2, 2007	Vol. 6, No. 3: Army Worm and Volleyball Colloquia, MATH Challenge, Putnam, MUMC, Tetrahedron Problem, Mathematics on Campus
Oct 24, 2007	Vol. 6, No. 4: Mathematical Games and Referendum Elections Colloquia, Changes to Math 310, Three Roots Problem
Nov 7, 2007	Vol. 6, No. 5: Algebraic Geometry and Basal Problem Colloquia, Travels with Elvis, MUMC and MATH Challenge Recap, MAA-You Tube Challenge, Sequence POTF
Nov 28, 2007	Vol. 6, No. 6: Integration Bee, Summer Research, Ripley's Believe it or Not!. Science and Ethics, Slips of Paper POTF
Jan 16, 2008	Vol. 6, No. 7: Statistical Genetics and Pi Colloquia, Integration Bee and MATH Challenge results, Summer Research, Bowlizza, Math Club, Daly wins award, Parallelogram POTF
Jan 31, 2008	Vol. 6, No. 8: Statistics and Career Colloquia, Summer Research, Bowlizza, Math Club t-shirt contest, A very integrating POTF, A letter for Elvis
Feb 20, 2008	Vol. 6, No. 9: Mathematical Philosophy and Mime-matics Colloquia, Scholorship Opportunity, Memorizing Pi, Math t-shirt announcement, Special challenge problem, and Log equation POTF, Another letter for Elvis
Mar 5, 2008	Vol. 6, No. 10: Better slide colloquium, LMMC announcment, pdf POTF, Greetings from Ryan Johnson
Mar 26, 2008	Vol. 6, No. 11 : Actuarial and Outer Billiards Colloquia, LMMC Announcment, an exponentially hard POTF, Tim turns 50
April 1, 2008	Vol. 6, No. 12: Students win prestigious award, Math Prof has PhD revoked, Where are the Math Club T-shirts?
April 9 , 2008	Vol. 6, No. 13: Philosophy, Quaternions, Sodoku, and Painting Complex Numbers Colloquia, LMMC and Putnam recap, a counting POTF, Elvis answers a trig question.
April 25 , 2008	Vol. 6, No. 14: Congratulation Seniors, Mathematics Awards, Pi Mu Epsilon, Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa

Volume 5: 2006-07 Academic Year

Date	Issue
Sept 6, 2006	Vol. 5, No. 1: Root Beer Floats, Grigory Perelman, High IQ Society, Adding Problem
Sept 20, 2006	Vol. 5, No. 2: Tiling and Class Number Colloquia, Art of Math at GVSU, Bridge Problem, Root Beer Floats wrap up
Oct 4, 2006	Vol. 5, No. 3: Bifurcation and Math Stories from the Hill Colloquia, MUMC, MATH Challenge, Polynomial Problem, Soccer questions
Oct 18, 2006	Vol. 5, No. 4: Dropping Scores and Math Stories from the Hill Colloquia, MUMC, MATH Challenge, Welcome Dorian, Real Root Problem, Ig Nobel
Nov 1, 2006	Vol. 5, No. 5: Student Research Colloquia, MUMC and MATH Challenge Recap, Triangle Path Problem, Pi and 300! questions
Nov 15, 2006	Vol. 5, No. 6: Actuary Colloquium, Students publish papers, Andersen Memorial, Chomp Problem
Nov 29, 2006	Vol. 5, No. 7: Random Polygon Colloquium, Golf Team Problem, Maggie the Mathematical Dog
Jan 17, 2007	Vol. 5, No. 8: Mapping Genes Colloquium, Sudoku Puzzle Problem, Bowling and Pizza Extravaganza
Jan 31, 2007	Vol. 5, No. 9: New book in Mathematical Statistics, Problem Inspired by a Red-tailed Hawk, Bowlizza
Feb 14, 2007	Vol. 5, No. 10: Statistics Showcase, Research Celebration, Math Teaching Opportunity in Ecuador
Feb 28, 2007	Vol. 5, No. 11: Hope Awarded 5-year REU Grant, Graduate School Panel.
Mar 14, 2007	Vol. 5, No. 12: Pi Day Celebration, Lower Michigan Math Competition, Infinitesimal Calculus Colloquium
Mar 28, 2007	Vol. 5, No. 13: Hyperreal number system, GVSU Art and Mathematics Lecture, LMMC
April 11, 2007	Vol. 5, No. 14: Problems, Puzzles and Pizza, Goldwater scholarship and Sigma Xi, Math Semester in Budapest.
April 25, 2007	Vol. 5, No. 15: Math Seniors and their plans after graduation

Volume 4: 2005-06 Academic Year

Date	Issue
Sept 8, 2005	Vol. 4, No. 1: Root Beer Floats, Nathan Tintle, Faculty Vacations Archimedes
Sept 21, 2005	Vol. 4, No. 2: Stat. Career Day, Math Challenge, New Trig., Mt. Baldhead Challenge, GEMS book, Math in Media, Puns in Headlines
Oct 5, 2005	Vol. 4, No. 3: Poincare Colloquium, Jeopardy, Stat. Career Day, Math Challenge, Putnam, MUMC, Supreme Court
Oct 19, 2005	Vol. 4, No. 4: Jeopardy, 100 digit problem, REU, Ant problem, Skiing Magazine
Nov 2, 2005	Vol. 4, No. 5: MUMC, MATH Challenge, Student Colloquium, AIDS Colloquium, Jeopardy Results, Genesis, Triangle problem
Nov 16, 2005	Vol. 4, No. 6: Pew Conference, REU, Bug problem, Shannon Limit, The Klein Four Group
Jan 18, 2006	Vol. 4, No. 7: Undergrad Research Celebration, REU, Chaos talk, Math Modeling Comp., Largest Prime, Sudoku.
Feb 1, 2006	Vol. 4, No. 8: Undergrad Research Celebration, REU, Stats Showcase, Math in Action, Polynomial talk, Ground Hog Day
Feb 22, 2006	Vol. 4, No. 9: Pebbling and Escher Colloquia, REU, Bowling & Pizza, Math Major Musings, Paths on Box Problem
Mar 8 , 2006	Vol. 4, No. 10: Dynamical Systems Colloquium, LMMC, Math Major Musings, Tiling Problem, Pi Day
Mar 29 , 2006	Vol. 4, No. 11: Actuary, Math Ecology, Yoda, Biostatistics, and Marketing Research Colloquia, Math Major Musings, GRE Prep
Apr 12 , 2006	Vol. 4, No. 12: Fundamental Theorem of Algebra, Algebraic Topology, and RCA Research Colloquia, Klein Four, LMMC, Poem
Apr 26 , 2006	Vol. 4, No. 13: Graduating Seniors, Student Awards, Math Major Musings, Statistics Research Colloquium

Volume 3: 2004-05 Academic Year

Date	Issue
Sept 8, 2004	Vol. 3, No. 1: Students attend conference: win award, LMMC results, Matt Boelkins, Gauss
Sept 22, 2004	Vol. 3, No. 2: 2004 Summer research student reports, MATH Challenge-Putnam, Poincaré
Oct 6, 2004	Vol. 3, No. 3: Math Ed summer research, MUMC, MATH Challenge, Len Adleman
Oct 20, 2004	Vol. 3, No. 4: Problems & Pizza, Statistical Genetics, Pi on a computer, Ramanujan
Nov 3, 2004	Vol. 3, No. 5: Ice cream, MUMC, Tutors needed, Garfield, parabola picture
Nov 17, 2004	Vol. 3, No. 6: Ice cream, Pew, Oak Ridge, bisecting a triangle, MathDL website
Dec 1, 2004	Vol. 3, No. 7: Statistics colloquia, Murphy’s Law, periodic table, Lobachevsy & Hardy
Jan 19, 2005	Vol. 3, No. 8: Math in Action, NUMB3RS, Google calculator, Baseball & Hausdorff colloquia
Feb 2, 2005	Vol. 3, No. 9: Undergraduate Research, Bowling Pizza, Venus Flytrap, Stats showcase
Feb 23, 2005	Vol. 3, No. 10: Summer Research Opportunities, Path Length and Binomial Colloquia, Shigefumi Mori
Mar 9, 2005	Vol. 3, No. 11: LMMC sign up, GRE info, Max Zorn, Sprialing Colloquium
Mar 30, 2005	Vol. 3, No. 12: Penrose and icosahedron colloquia, Grad School Info, Stefan Banach
April 13, 2005	Vol. 3, No. 13: Escher and elliptical curves colloquia, Math Forum POTW, LMMC saga, Francesco Severi, phi, book sale
April 29, 2005	Vol. 3, No. 14: Graduates, senior, sophomore, and other awards, Prob. & Stat. book published, book sale

Volume 2: 2003-04 Academic Year

Date	Issue
Sept 10, 2003	Vol. 2, No. 1: New Faculty, Cut the Knot, Undergrad Conferences, MATH Challenge, Lunes
Sept 24, 2003	Vol. 2, No. 2: GRE, Wikipedia, Undergrad Conferences, Famous Nonmathematicians
Oct 8, 2003	Vol. 2, No. 3: 100 digit problem, Math Jeopardy!, Penrose Tilings, Rubiks, NSF Fellowships
Oct 22, 2003	Vol. 2, No. 4: Tessellation and Derivative Colloquia, Jeopardy winners, 4-Color Problem
Nov 5, 2003	Vol. 2, No. 5: REU and Polynomial Colloquia, Interesting Numbers, Fibonacci Problem
Nov 19, 2003	Vol. 2, No. 6: MATH Challenge Champs, Turkey Surgery Problem, Archimedes' Laboratory
Jan 14, 2004	Vol. 2, No. 7: Faculty Awards, REU, Bowling-Pizza, Budapest Semester, Plus Magazine
Jan 28, 2004	Vol. 2, No. 8: Bowling results, Stats showcase, Elvis, REU, MMPC, Mathwright Library
Feb 11, 2004	Vol. 2, No. 9: Julia-Google, Pop-up Colloquium, Cardiods, Gibbs, Hankel, Hilbert
Feb 25, 2004	Vol. 2, No. 10: Minesweeper Colloquium, Packing M&M's, 7 UP, Cantor, Catenary
Mar 10, 2004	Vol. 2, No. 11: LMMC, Pi Day, Chomp Problem, Trifolium, Daniel Bernoulli
Mar 31, 2004	Vol. 2, No. 12: Putnam Results, Summer Research, Math Forum, GRE, Graph Pebbling
Apr 14, 2004	Vol. 2, No. 13: Alleman in Budapest, Math Awareness Month, Pi Mu Epsilon etc, LMMC
Apr 28, 2004	Vol. 2, No. 14: Senior and Sophomore Awards, Senior plans, Graduate Award

Volume 1: 2002-03 Academic Year

Date	Issue
Sept 11, 2002	Vol. 1, No. 1: Welcome back, faculty summer activities, GRE information, art exhibit
Sept 25, 2002	Vol. 1, No. 2: Math week, Math poetry, MATH Challenge, sabbatical projects, Kate Vance
Oct 10, 2002	Vol. 1, No. 3: Math week, Math in the Movies, National Curve Bank, REU
Oct 23, 2002	Vol. 1, No. 4: Math week, Statistics Colloquium, Geometry Junkyard
Nov 6, 2002	Vol. 1, No. 5: Winning poems, Math Inverse Problems Colloquium, MacTutor History
Nov 20, 2002	Vol. 1, No. 6: Escher Colloquium, Shirt Sale, Math World, MATH Challenge Results
Jan 15, 2003	Vol. 1, No. 7: REU Funded, Virtual Polyhedra, Where's my Prof?
Jan 29, 2003	Vol. 1, No. 8: Rininger to go to Budapest, Summer research opportunities, Math Modeling Competition
Feb 19, 2003	Vol. 1, No. 9: Math Modeling Competition, Problems from the History of Math, MUMC
Mar 5, 2003	Vol. 1, No. 10: LMMC, Torus and Klein Bottle Games, Calculus of Variations Colloquium
Mar 26, 2003	Vol. 1, No. 11: Fall 2003 classes, LEGO sculptures, New faculty, Putnam results
Apr 9, 2003	Vol. 1, No. 12: Dogs & Calculus, Math Awareness Month, Twin Primes, Pi Mu Epsilon Luncheon
Apr 23, 2003	Vol. 1, No. 13: Congrats Seniors, Award Winners, LMMC Champs, Poincare Conj., Math Puzzles