Class of '09 graduates
Today's commencement ceremonies included an unusually large class of
14 students majoring in mathematics or computer science.
These included: Don Bennett, Josh Franklin, Wheeler
Gnat, Kyaw Soe Han, Richard Hinson, Adam Jacobs, Aditya Oza,
Adrian Parreiras Horta, Brad Payne, Eric Robbins, Christopher
Schulze, Joseph Utecht, Justin Vance, and Justin Whorton. We
congratulate our newest alumni and wish them well!
Class photo…
9 May 2009
Student awards presented
At Honors Day today, the college presented our
departmental awards.
Don Bennett received the Eslinger Computer Science Award,
Henry Wang received the Parker Undergraduate Mathematics Research Award,
and Fido Bingwa, Ross Crocker, and Michael Gardner received the
McHenry-Lane Freshman Mathematics Award.
Departmental distinction went to Don Bennett, Adam Jacobs, and
Justin Whorton. Congratulations to all recipients!
23 Apr 2009
Seniors present projects April 24
Two computer science seniors will give
presentations about their senior projects
on April 24 in MCRey 315.
Full schedule. 21 Apr 2009
Department hosts undergraduate research symposium
The 32nd annual Hendrix-Rhodes-Sewanee Undergraduate Symposium
will be held at Hendrix College April 17–18, 2009.
On Friday evening, 6:30pm, there will be an invited speaker
presenting in Mills B: The talk is entitled Journeys
Down Short Paths,
by Kevin Hutson,
Hendrix 1995 alum and now a professor at Furman University in
South Carolina.
Saturday morning will feature a number of talks by mathematics
and computer science students at all three represented
colleges.
More information.
16 Apr 2009
Hendrix participates and competes at regional computer
science conference
We took nine students to the CCSC:MS computing conference in
Martin, Tennessee. The conference incuded two student papers
from Hendrix: Don Bennett spoke about his senior thesis,
Four-dimensional Tetris,
and
by Brett Geren and Whitney Maguffee spoke about their summer
research with Dr. Gabe Ferrer,
Creating fuzzy logic programs for robot controllers.
Additionally, Drs. Carl Burch and Gabe Ferrer each
presented papers on their own work.
The conference also hosted a programming contest, where
Hendrix's three teams placed first, third, and sixth among the
22 teams competing. The first place team included Don Bennett, Colby
Christopher, and Joseph Utecht; the third-place team had Brett Geren,
Alex Koeppel, Whitney Maguffee; and in sixth place
were Matt Demmler, Claire Luikart, and Katie Wright.
3 Apr 2009
Teams place first and eighth at state mathematics contest
Results are in from the Arkansas Undergraduate Mathematics
Competition held this year in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, on February 28.
One team, including Matt Demmler, Domingo Galdos, William Rawlinson,
and Henry Wang, achieved a perfect score of 100 and placed first among
the 12 competing teams. Dana Callahan, Whitney Maguffee, and Pierre
Urisanga, all first- and second-year students, placed eighth.
25 Mar 2009