Kutztown
University of Pennsylvania
Department of
Mathematics
Spotlight Student
Spotlight Students for March
of 2011
Ms. Ashley Dougherty was born in San Diego, California and moved to Pennsylvania
to pursue a secondary education mathematics degree at Kutztown University. She
is currently a junior and will graduate in May, 2012 with honors and a Spanish
minor. At some point in the future she intends to pursue further education.
Mr. David Blisard was born in Chester, Pennsylvania and began his undergraduate
degree as a secondary education mathematics major in 2007. He intends to
graduate in May, 2012. Mr. Blisard is very involved on and off campus with three
part time jobs, and holding the president’s position of multiple organizations.
Mr. Blisard prefers applied mathematics. Upon graduation he plans to
spend some time teaching abroad in a third world country.
These three students have studied together ever since Dr. Deb’s Calculus III
class. Now they enjoy spending long weekends in math modeling competitions. Over
the past 2 years they have taken seven classes together. In the fall semester of
2010 the team competed at the Cumberland Valley Math Modeling Competition and
went home with first place. In spring 2011 the team competed in the COMAP
international math modeling competition. While results have not yet been
returned the team is proud of their efforts. While the group is extremely
unconventional with Ashley and Dave constantly fighting and Danielle playing
mom, they continue to succeed and excel in all they do.
Spotlight Student for November 2010
She was originally accepted to Kutztown University of Pennsylvania as a fine arts
major--complete with portfolio--but switched to mathematics partway through her
first semester! She is a very creative person: some her hobbies include
drawing, writing, and knitting.
May 2010
Upon returning to the United States, he plans on continuing his education and hopes to attend Cornell University to study mathematics, concentrating in geometry. Currently his research is in self-intersecting polygons (directed by Dr. Anke Walz). His work is an attempt to generate the first comprehensive overview of the topic.
He has presented his work at Moravian College’s undergraduate mathematics conference, will be presenting at the Eastern Pennsylvania - Delaware Section (EPaDel) of the Mathematical Association of America Conference at Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA. in April of this year, and plans to presnt his work in August at the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Mathfest in Pittsburgh as well.
April 2010
Ms. Bongco (class of 2010) is a mathematics major and music
minor. She had presented, “An Apercus Study of Cardinality and
Ordinality,” at the Conference on Undergraduate Research in Mathematics (CURM)
at the Pennsylvania State University in State College, PA. in the fall of 2009
and continues her research in Set Theory.
She is to present another paper at the Eastern Pennsylvania -
Delaware Section (EPaDel) of the Mathematical Association of
America Conference at Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA. in April of
this year.
She is interested also in analysis, cryptography, and topology. She has already been accepted to graduate
school (Wake Forest, Villanova, and the University of Delaware); but, is weighing her options and might decide to work for the National
Security Agency (NSA) rather than go directly into graduate school.
Last updated: 18 April 2010
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