Description: Article describes accomplishments as Chair during the year. Four accomplishments are mentioned: i) Actuarial Research Conference ii) Early Career Award, iii) Establishment of Outstanding Educator Award, iv) Push to create surveys from the section containing a reservoir of ideas that can be used for webinars, podcasts, etc.

Description: Book review of Anthony Asher’s "Working Ethically in Finance: Clarifying our Vocation".

Description: A description of a new award for outstanding educators in actuarial science.

Description: The incoming E&R chair for the coming year reflects on past accomplishments of the E&R council, acknowledges with thanks contributors, and looks forward to continuation in the coming year.

Description: We discuss a teaching program for new actuarial science and risk management & insurance educators at Georgia State University that includes the following topics: - Introducing insurance - Syllabus construction - Creating content and actively engaging students - Student motivation and career paths - Assessment and grading rubrics - Professional ethics and other

Description: This month, Expanding Horizons had the opportunity to interview Tim Boonen, the winner of the Society of Actuaries’ (SOA’s) second Actuarial Science Early Career Award.

Description: This article studies the syllabus as a dynamic, interactive teaching tool that informs and is informed by both solutions of complex course problems and student difficulties with these problems.

Description: In this article, I give a few notes as the outgoing chair of the Education and Research Section Council.

Description: This is an interview that Professor Colin M. Ramsay, Editor of Expanding Horizons, had with Professor John Beekman, Ph.D., ASA, MAAA. It was conducted on Thursday, August 15, 2019, while both were attending the Actuarial Research Conference at Indiana University—Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) in Indianapolis. The interview is a part of the Distinguished Academic Actuaries Series and is intended to highlight the journey these actuaries took through their career inside and outside of academia.