In the college football bowl season, Dr. Maggie Rahmoeller offers the following alternative bowling experience.. Math Club got a little crazy one Friday night in December. Oh, it started out normal enough- I mean, how crazy can bowling be? Well, when you get a seasoned Math faculty member to bowl like this, I’d say things…
The Palm Pipe Orchestra of Jan Minton’s Honors 301 class sends greetings from the class and the MCSP department for a wonderful holiday season. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9riI5tSpYPk&w=560&h=315]
If you think that math and art are opposites, you will be surprised by Upcycled Theorems, the gallery created by Jan Minton’s “Mathematics and Art” class, HNRS 301. A wide range of connections between math and art are explored in this course. The students demonstrated three of them in an open house in New Hall…
The Roanoke Maroon Stat Crew introduced itself to the RC campus at an MCSP Conversation Series presentation on Tuesday, December 1. The Crew is a group of students, seven strong this fall, who work with the Roanoke College athletic teams to provide useful information to the coaches. The Crew worked with both the men’s and…
The Roanoke Maroon Stat is a group of students who work with the Roanoke College athletic teams to provide useful information to the coaches. The seven students in the Fall 2015 Crew represent five different majors and range from freshman to senior. An interest in the statistics of sports and a willingness to be part…
The odds are that you don’t know the full significance of today’s date, November 13, 2015. Sure, it’s another Friday the 13th . (Did you know that the 13th day of the month falls on Friday more often than any other day of the week? That’s an odd fact!) More importantly, if you write the…
What is the social atmosphere in the MCSP department like? It is epitomized by the weekly afternoon tea in Trexler 271. Before you drag out any tired old mental clichés about socially awkward or intellectually snooty people, know that the finger most commonly raised at afternoon tea is not the pinkie. (The index finger is…
What are mathematics classes like at Roanoke College? Different. Challenging. Fun. To take one example, Calculus 2 has a regular lab. What in the world is done in a calculus lab? Among other topics, we look at rabbit and fox populations, baseballs and golf balls in motion, a cube that curves, and the classic video…
The Physics Group came out in force to support its soccer players on Saturday, 10/10. The stars aligned for a day at Kerr Stadium, as both women’s and men’s teams had home games. Two of the starters on each team are Physics majors, with forward Linnea Kremer and defender Dio Beck joining goalkeepers Sarah Dvorak…
Phillip Barbolla explains his research to an interested student. What is life like at Roanoke College? Busy! A full weekend got started on Friday, 10/9, at Fintel Library with the Experiential Learning Showcase. All three MCSP disciplines were well represented as Phillip Barbolla from math, Dio Beck from physics, and Natalie Wilkinson from computer science…
