Minute to Win It Competition – Saturday, April 2nd at 4pm, location TBA Come play Minute to Win It games against the Math and CS Professors! Watch them try to get an Oreo from their forehead to their mouth without using their hands! Or try get cotton balls from one bowl to another using only Vaseline and […]
MAA will be hosting a Q&A time about Fall Registration open to all students with questions about math and computer science questions. Tonight, March 28th at 5:30 in VH 1208.
Congratulations to Zachary Whitehouse, Charles Tomlinson, Xiang Li, Christopher Duda, Elizabeth Oliver, Ujwal Sapkota, and Joseph Palmer, who participated in the 2010 William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. There were 4296 contestants from 546 institutions in the 71st competition held December 4, 2010. The Truman Team consisting of Zachary Whitehouse, Charles Tomlinson, and Xiang Li was […]
Dr. Tim Walston from Truman’s Biology Department will be presenting “A worm that won’t destroy your PC: An interdisciplinary approach to understanding the embryo” Abstract: The early embryo of the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans provides a great system to understand the forces that act upon cells during development. The cells at the 4-cell stage change […]
Dinner starts at 6:30 at Napolis, we have the backroom reserved so there will be plenty of room. For more information contact Connie Huynh .
For those of you with talents like being able to get an Oreo from your forehead to your mouth without the use of your hands, this event is for you! Come to our Minute to Win It Competition to show us just how talented you are! The event will be Saturday, April 2nd at 4pm […]
Think you’re good at math? Then prove it at the Annual Integration Bee! Come this Saturday, March 26 to VH 1224 at 1pm to be entered in the competition. Go up against fellow students to compete for the title of “Best Integrator” (a prestigious title, to be sure!). There will be prizes for 1st, 2nd, […]
The next Math Colloquium will be held Tuesday, April 19, from 3:30-4:20 in VH1228. Mike Fitzpatrick, a graduate student at the University of Iowa, will speak on An Introduction to Knot Theory. An abstract of the talk follows. Afterward he will be able to answer questions about graduate study at the University of Iowa. Refreshments […]
Math faculty members received the following email this week, and it is included here for any interested students: I am a representative of the US Backgammon Assn and I would very much like to sponsor and coach a Backgammon team from Truman. We only need 3 players to compete at schools, but I need help […]
Poker Tournament and Game Night this Friday March 18, 2011 at 5pm in the upstairs VH commons! It is free to play, and pizza will be sold for a small price. All faculty and students welcome to attend! Top three winners receive a prize!