Mathematics and secondary ed major Brianna Wiseman '15 began her first year at Emmanuel with her mind set on becoming a teacher. So how, five years later, did her path lead to Fidelity Investments and her current position as a Deployment Analyst? "Attending a liberal arts school, I was exposed to so many new ideas outside of my major that I wanted to explore further," she said.

James Withers '16, Darren Parke '16, Niko Townsend '17 and Mikayla Werzanski '17 worked on campus with EC faculty. Jessica LeClair '17 took part in the Summer Institute for Training in Biostatistics at Emory, Katherine Fazioli '17 was enrolled in the Synthetic Biology Research boot camp at Simmons , and Jill Rossi '16 was part of the Summer Institute for Training in Biostatistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Lecturer in Mathematics Brendan Sullivan and Emmanuel students Niko Townsend '17 and Mikayla Werzanski '17 presented their summer research, "Lazy Cops and Robbers on Chess and Product Graphs," at the Young Mathematicians Conference at Ohio State University in Columbus in August 2015.

The Department of Mathematics welcomed a new Lecturer, Heather Pierce. Heather holds a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Texas at Taylor (2010) and M.S. in Mathematics from Tufts University (2015). Her research interests are in the Knot Theory and Geometric Group Theory.

Four faculty members (Yulia Dementieva, Christine Sample, Brendan Sullivan and Heather Pierce) and four Emmanuel students (Niko Townsend '17, Mikayla Werzanski '17, Darren Parke '16 and James Withers '16) attended and presented at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Seattle, Wash., on January 6-9, 2016.

Assistant Professor of Mathematics Benjamin Allen gave a talk, "Death-Birth Dynamics on Heterogeneous Graphs," at the Workshop on Conflict, Competition, Cooperation and Complexity at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Ploen, Germany, in January 2016.

Two mathematics students presented their Senior Distinction in the Field projects in April 2016. Candidates for Distinction and their projects include: Darren Parke, "Generalizations of multi-toned tilings," and James Withers, "The death-birth process on graphs with weakly advantageous mutants."

Mathematics major Darren Parke was accepted to Harvard University's Ph.D. program in statistics, biostatistics major Katilin Todd was accepted to the M.S. in biostatistics program at Washington University in St. Louis and mathematics/philosophy double major James Withers was accepted to the M.A. in philosophy programs at Boston University and at Tufts University.

Biostatistics and biology double major Jessica LeClair '17, will spend her summer doing research at the University of Pittsburgh through their REU in Computational Biology. Mathematics major Julia Bujalski '18 was accepted and is planning to attend the SUMMER@ICERM 2016 undergraduate summer research program at Brown University. Congrats!