Executive Committee
Chair (2024-2025): Deborah Moore-Russo, University of Oklahoma
Chair-Elect (2025): Samuel Cook, Boston University
Conference Executive Coordinator (2025-2026): Adi Adiredja, University of Arizona
Programming Coordinator (2024-2025): Kaitlyn Serbin, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Secretary (2024-2025): Kate Melhuish, Texas State University
Treasurer (2025-2026): Keith Gallagher, University of Nebraska, Omaha
Appointed Roles (2025):
• Communications Coordinator: Brian Katz, California State University Long Beach
• Archivist: Shandy Hauk, San Francisco State University
Terms begin and end at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, so a two-year term “2024-2025” term begins at the 2024 JMM and ends at the 2026 JMM.
Title changes in 2024:
• Chair (was Coordinator),
• Conference Executive Coordinator (was Organizational Director),
• Programming Coordinator (was Program Chair)
History
This organization was initially founded as ARUME (Association for Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education) on January 14, 1999 at the Annual Joint Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, AMS, and Mathematical Association of America, MAA, in San Antonio, Texas. Its formation was in response to the growing interest in research on undergraduate mathematics education (RUME).
At the January 2000 Annual Joint Meeting of AMS/MAA in Washington, DC, ARUME became the first SIGMAA (Special Interest Group of the MAA). As a consequence, the MAA subsequently requested a name change. The name changed to the SIGMAA on RUME, along with charter and bylaws changes, at the business meeting on Friday, January 12, 2001 at the Annual Joint Meeting of AMS/MAA in New Orleans, Louisiana.
As outlined in its Charter, the purpose of the group is to foster research on learning and teaching undergraduate mathematics and to provide a support network for those who participate in this area of research. This SIGMAA also welcomes members who teach post secondary mathematics or are interested in the findings of RUME; such members often provide critical assistance in the grounding of research efforts in the realities of the classroom. The founding of the organization was partially supported by a grant from the ExxonMobil Foundation.
A history of the first 12 years of this organization and its academic community has been compliled by Annie Selden, and is available as “A Home for RUME: The Story of the Formation of the Mathematical Association of America's Special Interest Group of Research in Mathematical Education", Annie Selden, New Mexico State University, Tech Report No. 2012-6, downloadable file 690KB