Grants, Fellowships, Professional Affiliations & Service

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Grants

Collaborative Research: Adaptation and Implementation of Activity and Web-Based Materials into Post-Calculus Introductory Probability and Statistics Courses,  National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement Program, Award Number:  DUE-0126716, Effective June 1 , 2002, Expires August 31, 2004.  You can learn more about this grant at the project website:  http://www.mathspace.com/NSF_ProbStat/index.htm. 


Fellowships and Other Endeavors

NASA Summer Faculty Fellow, Summers 1997 and 1998, Marshal Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL.  Developed and analyzed virtual reality simulations in the Army NASA Virtual Innovations Laboratory in order to enhance human factors engineering and operations analysis. 

Fellow in the National Project NExT, Academic Year 1997-1998. Project NExT (New Experiences in Teaching) is a program for new or recent Ph.D.s in the mathematical sciences who are interested in improving the teaching and learning of undergraduate mathematics.  I'm a Peach Dot.

Fellow in the Southeastern Project NExT, Academic Year 1996-1997. A regional version of the National Project NExT.

Professional Affiliations and Service

Mathematical Association of America (1996 - Present)

  • Member of the Mathematical and Computational Biology Special Interest Group of the MAA, BIO SIGMAA (Fall 2007 - present)

  • Elected "Member at Large" (in charge of the Section NExT Program) of the MD/DC/VA Section of the MAA, Spring 2007 and Spring 2008.

    • Attended MathFest 2007 as MD/DC/VA Section representative at the Section Officers Meeting (August 2007)

    • Member of the Nominating Committee for Section Officers, Spring 2009

  • Co-Organizer of the Panel Discussion "Mathematics and Mathematicians in Emerging Nations" at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans, LA, Jan. 5, 2007

  • Member of the Statistics Education Special Interest Group of the MAA, STAT-ED SIGMAA  (2004-Present)

    • Nominated to run for the office of Secretary of the SIGMAA (October, 2006)

  • As a correspondent for the Media Highlights column of The College Mathematics Journal published by the MAA, I have written reviews of the following articles:

    • In Vol. 38, No. 2, March 2007:

    • In Vol. 38, No. 1, January 2007:

      • "The Efficacy of Collaborative Learning Groups in an Undergraduate Statistics Course," Michael Delucchi.  College Teaching 54:2 (2006).

    • In Vol. 37, No. 4, September 2006:

      • "Innate Sex Differences Supported by Untypical Traffic Fatalities,”  Leonard Evans.  CHANCE 19:1 (Winter 2006) 10-21.

    • In Vol. 37, No.3, May 2006:

      • "Increasing Math and Science Achievement:  The Best and Worst of the East and West," Yong Zhao, Phi Delta Kappan, November 2005, 219-222

      • "Where Else to Publish," Paul J. Campbell and Kunio Mitsumi, UMAP Journal, Vol. 26, No.2 (Summer 2005), 93-114.

  • Departmental Liaison for the Longwood University Mathematics Department (Summer 2006-present)

  • Organizer and Moderator for a "Grant Writing Workshop" presented to the Section Project NExT at the MAA MD-DC-VA Spring 2005 Section Meeting, April 2, 2005, Charlottesville, VA.

  • Organizer and Moderator for a Panel Discussion on "No Child Left Behind" at the 83rd Annual Southeastern MAA Section Meeting, March, 2004.

  • Alabama State Director for the Southeastern Section of the MAA (2003/04 Academic Year)

  • Departmental Liaison for the ASU Mathematics Department (Fall 2000-Spring 2003)

  • Member of the ad hoc Committee on Teaching Awards for Beginning Faculty (11/01-8/02)

  • Co-organized and Moderated a Panel Discussion on "What is Project NExT" for the  80th Annual MAA Southeastern Section meeting, March 2001.

  • Co-organized a Special Session on "Real-Life Applications Used in the Teaching of Mathematics" for the MAA Southeastern Section meeting, March 1998.

  • Co-organized a Panel Discussion on "Professional Development Issues for Young and Future Faculty" sponsored by the Young Mathematics Network and Project NExT for the January 1998 Joint Mathematics Meetings.

The College Board Advanced Placement Program (2005 - Present)

Association for Women in Mathematics (2000 - Present)

 

American Statistical Association (2005 - Present)

 

Huntsville Simulation Conference (2002 - 2003)

  • 2003 Session Chair for the Simulation in Education Session

  • Member of the 2002 HSC Organizing Committee

  • 2002 Session Chair for the Simulation in Education Session

Board member of the Young Mathematicians Network (1995 – 2002)

Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications (COMAP) (2000-Present)

Alabama Association of College Teachers of Mathematics (AACTM) (Fall 2001 - Spring 2004)

Alabama Council of Teachers of Mathematics (Fall 2000-Spring 2003)

North Alabama Council of Teachers of Mathematics (Fall 2000 - Spring 2003)

Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO) (2000-2001)

American Mathematical Society (1995-1999)

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