{"id":793,"date":"2025-03-25T18:21:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T18:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/newmath2025\/?p=793"},"modified":"2025-04-24T13:47:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T13:47:55","slug":"math-hosts-first-annual-pi-your-professor-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/2025\/03\/25\/math-hosts-first-annual-pi-your-professor-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Math Hosts First Annual Pi Your Professor Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 20, 2025, the Department of Mathematics hosted the first annual Pi Your Professor Event. This was a belated celebration of Pi Day, which is March 14 and generally falls over spring break.<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"right wp-post-image alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2025\/04\/22144940\/pi-pie-01.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"363\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The format of Pi Your Professor is quite simple. Undergraduate students are welcome to come to Stevenson Center 1, grab a pie (a paper plate with a healthy serving of Reddi Wip), and throw the pie in the face of a professor. This year\u2019s participants included Prof. Maddie Brandt (the architect of the event), Prof. Spencer Dowdall, Sam Sehayek, Sean McAfee, Fawaz Jimoh, and Prof. Dan Margalit.<\/p>\n<p>Liz Chagnon from the College of Arts &amp; Science communications team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DHeA3dYMiPS\/?igsh=dWc1bHVwYmk2dGZ1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">produced a superb social media post about the event<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to all the faculty and students who made this event such a success. \u00a0See you next year!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2025\/04\/22144935\/pi-pie-02.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"435\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2025\/04\/22144926\/pi-pie-03.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"435\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2025\/04\/22144919\/pi-pie-04.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 20, 2025, the Department of Mathematics hosted the first annual Pi Your Professor Event. This was a belated celebration of Pi Day, which is March 14 and generally falls over spring break. The format of Pi Your Professor is quite simple. Undergraduate students are welcome to come to Stevenson Center 1, grab a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2025\/04\/22144940\/pi-pie-01.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":915,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions\/915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}