| “What are some problems facing the world today?” |
This provocative question has become the standard opening gambit in my math teaching. Students’ responses include: climate change, terrorism, HIV/AIDS, Asian flu, energy dependence, over population, animal extinctions and pollution. I go on to explain that a major goal of our math course will be to see how mathematics can be used to address these important societal issues. All to often, mathematics courses focus exclusively on the mathematical content without making linkages to such larger issues. |
 Victor J. Donnay Professor of Mathematics, Bryn Mawr College |
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The Love's Baked In |
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Presidential Teaching Award for Innovative Math Instruction While teaching third grade, Tapp Hancock (Converse
College '80) grew tired of half of her students not being able to
master basic mathematics. “I knew there had to be a better way,”
says Tapp, who has taught in California elementary schools for the last
twenty years. “Kids want to succeed, but educators need to teach
them according to their appropriate learning style and give them the right
tools to achieve.” |
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Observing the Struggle of Traditional Progress Chelsea Jaccard '03 double majored in politics and art
at Converse. She was a three-year award-winning member of the Converse
Model Arab League program and during her undergraduate years studied Arabic
at the Arabic Language Institute of Fez in Morocco and through independent
correspondence study at Converse. She continued her Arabic study during
her masters degree program in International Peace and Conflict Resolution
with a Middle East emphasis at American University in Washington, DC. |
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Builders & Titans: Robin Chase |
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« Barnard Alumna, LizBeth Neumark, shares her recipe for business and philanthropy. LizBeth Neumark is sitting at a makeshift table in a
temporary staging kitchen at the landmark New York Public Library on Fifth
Avenue. Neumark, who prefers to be called Liz, takes a sip of red wine
and nibbles smidgens of dinner. A morsel of gravlax. A bite of arctic
char. A taste of New York-raised lamb. Slender with refined good looks,
she exudes none of the frantic energy or inflated ego typically associated
with high-end catering. |
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Kate Baker, 27 » Development liaison and campaign
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Converse College
graduate and current high school chemistry teacher Dianne Earle recently
won the 2008 Southeastern Region Award for Excellence in High School Teaching
for the Southeast Region of the American Chemical Society. Earle was selected
for the honor over 18 other teachers from the 10-state region. She is
now in the mix for the National American Chemical Society Teacher Award,
which will be presented in September 2009. |
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After earning her bachelor's degree in psychology at
Agnes Scott College, 2008
graduate Lies van Bekkum returned to campus almost immediately as the
college's first sustainability fellow. van Bekkum’s recent college
experience on campus at Agnes Scott is key to her new role in helping
to build a "green" culture among the college’s community
of about 900 students. . |
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Since graduating from Wellesley College less than six
years ago, Katie Johnson - KJ to some - has been on a rocket ride to the
pinnacle of American politics, most recently as a key aide to the manager
of Barack Obama's campaign and now as the personal secretary to the 44th
president of the United States. |
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Political candidates aren't the only ones benefiting
from women's increased financial clout. According to U.S. News &
World Report, in 2005 women surpassed men in their “civic generosity”
by giving $21.7 billion in donations and philanthropic contributions compared
with $16.8 billion given by men.. |
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A dress by New York fashion designer and Mount Mary alumna
Donna Ricco made its way to national television twice during the week
of June 16... The dress was purchased “off the rack” by Michelle
Obama, according to Vieira. Ricco said she was surprised and pleased that
Obama had chosen her dress to wear for her TV appearance... |
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When she chose a small women's college in Baltimore, Jennifer E. Hale never imagined how the next four years would broaden her horizons and transform her outlook on life from bashful to bold. "In high school, I was a homebody, always afraid to branch out," said the North Harford High graduate. Her attitude changed on a pre-admission tour of the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. MORE » |
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The opportunity to work for Gap, Inc., one of the
world’s largest specialty retailers, happened by chance for Camille
Palmer ’04. While working late one evening at Jones Apparel Group in
New York, she received a call from a recruiter and soon found herself
as the newest member of the Gap International Technical Design Department
in New York. |
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When NASA astronauts first walked on the moon in 1969,
eight-year-old Pamela Melroy was watching. Very few people who saw the
Eagle land have forgotten the sight, but for Pam, the experience was
more than awe-inspiring-it changed the course of her life. |
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When they graduated from Smith College in May, Kirby
Capen ’07 of Washington D.C., and Neema Scott ’07 of Newton, Massachusetts,
both had money in the bank and Africa in their sights. Before long,
they were roving in far-flung places, urban and frontier, Capen in Ghana
and Scott in Kenya. |
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When Katie White applied to PhD programs in chemistry, she was nervous but hopeful about the process. How many graduate schools should she apply to? Were the programs she dreamed of too elite to accept her? If she got in, could she compete with the best? That was then, this is now... |
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Aghion, an Emmy Award winning documentary filmmaker, spent four months
in Antarctica last fall documenting what that extraordinary place does
to the people who live and study there. "Some people feel obliterated
by it. Others feel enlarged." |
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Academy award winning team member and 1997 Agnes Scott College alumna Amy S. Kim credits her alma mater with at least some of the leadership skills she now possesses. “I loved the part where we went to orientation when someone brought up the statistics about how males dominate coeducational schools and how I could actually become a leader at this school,” MORE » |
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Hollins graduate and Roanoke native Stephanie Via’s “True Story” was selected for the Short Film Program at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, which was held January 19-29 in Park City, Utah. |
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Soon after arriving in Africa, Trish Anderson '98 visited the home of a woman whose husband had died recently of AIDS and who herself had AIDS. The woman warmly invited Anderson in for tea and corn on the cob by the fire. |
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Senior year, Miner worked as a mentor in the Speaking, Arguing, and Writing Program, helping students hone their arguments and write and edit their work. "It made my own writing better. As you critique their work, it gives you a sharper eye for your own." |
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“I chose St. Kate's because I wanted to go to a women’s college,” says Cassie. “I visited the Twin Cities area and really liked what I saw. And once I got to school I discovered that St. Kate's had a really open atmosphere. My parents liked it because it was less expensive than going to the in-state school in Montana.” MORE » |
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What would happen if someone combined the hit television shows “Survivor” and “Trading Spaces”? Ask Nicole Facciuto, Cottey Class of 1995. She was one of the professional designers on USA Network’s series “House Wars.” |
