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A Fortnightly Electronic Newsletter from the Hope College Department of Mathematics
  April 27, 2012 Vol. 10, No. 13
http://www.math.hope.edu/newsletter.html


Congratulations Graduates!

This year there are eleven mathematics majors graduating from Hope.  As they head out to jobs, graduate schools, and places yet unknown, we wish them all the best in their future endeavors.  The graduates are shown below. 












 


Students honored for outstanding work in mathematics

 

During last night's honors convocation a number of awards were given to mathematics students.  This year's winner of the Albert E. Lampen Award in Mathematics is Jessalyn Bolkema.  This award is given each year to the graduating senior in recognition of his or her outstanding achievement in the study of mathematics at Hope.  Jessalyn also received the Dorothy Grace Renzema Moore Award for excellence in mathematics and music.
The John H. Kleinheksel Awards in Mathematics were given to Alexandra Benson, Nicholas DeJongh, Caitlin Kozack, Melanie Leonard, David McMorris, and Ploch.  These awards are given each year to students taking sophomore level courses for their outstanding achievement in mathematics and promise for future success. 

Congratulations go out to all these students for a job well done!


Hope students take part in LMMC

On April 14th, two teams of Hope students traveled over to Calvin College to participate in the 36th annual Lower Michigan Mathematics Competition.  This year, 19 teams from 10 schools competed.  Congratulations go out to Jessalyn Bolkema, Patrick Malley and Tim Cooke for their fourth place finish and  to Michael Bowerman, Bobby Nash, and Joshua Kammeraad for their fifth place finish.  Well done!


I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

Robert Frost

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