The relationship between mathematics and strategy games was among the topics when the Department of Mathematics at Misericordia University held its inaugural "Conference on Mathematics and Games" in April. The conference was a collaboration of mathematics faculty members from colleges and universities in Northeastern Pennsylvania.
More than 60 faculty members and students were in attendance, including, first row from left, Dr. Janine Janoski, assistant professor, mathematics, King's College; Dr. Maureen T. Carroll, professor, mathematics, and Kateri Sternberg and Sara Myers, students, University of Scranton; and Taylor Rupp, student, Misericordia University; second row, Dr. Steven Dougherty, professor, mathematics, and Matthew Owens, student, University of Scranton; Dr. Gary Gordon, professor, mathematics, Lafayette College; Noah Riggenbach, student, University of Scranton; Dr. David Perkins, assistant professor, mathematics, Misericordia University; Michael Engling, professor, computer science, Stevens Institute of Technology; Dr. Reza Noubary, professor, mathematics, Bloomsburg University, and Dr. Elizabeth McMahon, professor, mathematics, Lafayette College.
For more information about the Department of Mathematics at Misericordia University, please call (570) 674-6400 or log on to www.misericordia.edu/mathematics. Founded and Sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy in 1924, Misericordia University is Luzerne County's first four-year college and offers degree programs on the graduate and undergraduate levels in full- and part-time formats. Misericordia University ranks in the top tier of the Best Regional Universities – North category of U.S. News and World Report's 2016 edition of Best Colleges and was designated a 2016 Best Northeastern College by the Princeton Review.