Several of the faculty in the Department of Mathematics & Computer Science attended the Joint Mathematics Meeting in San Francisco in January.  Lara Pudwell presented a short invited talk on "Pattern-Avoiding Colored Partitions".  Shane Drew continued his participation in the activities of Project NExT, a national professional development program for new faculty.  Melissa Desjarlais spent an entire day in committee work helping to construct this coming November’s edition of the AMC 8, a national mathematics exam for seventh and eighth grade students.  Daniel Maxin gave a talk “Why do we need intervals for the First Derivative Test?" in a session on Using Computer Algebra Systems in the Calculus Sequence, organized by Bill Marion.  Rick Gillman reported on the mathematics expected of meteorology majors as part of a panel on discussion mathematics and its partner disciplines.