| Alan Frazier’s daughter, Air Force Lieutenant Erin Frazier, was
selected to serve as an associate professor at the United States Air
Force Academy. Erin is scheduled to report to the Academy in January
2012, when she will begin teaching English (creative writing). Erin
is a 2006 graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and has
served in Iraq. Sid Kolpas reports a personal milestone: “Martin Gardner is one of the greatest living recreational mathematicians; for many years he was editor of the mathematics column in Scientific American. He is the author of dozens of mathematics books, and an honored member of the Mathematics Association of America. Now in his 90s, he has published yet another book: Sphere Packing, Lewis Carroll, and Reversi (Cambridge University Press, 2009). In that book, he quotes me! I am also in the index! What an honor to be quoted by a mathematician I've admired my entire professional life.” Dr. Allison Kolpas, daughter of Sid Kolpas, has had a research article accepted for publication in the Journal of Mathematical Biology. Her co-author is Dr. Roger Nesbit, Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Theoretical Ecology, UCSB. Allison is currently teaching in the Mathematics Department of the University of Delaware. In the spring, she'll teach her first graduate level mathematics course, Numerical Analysis.
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