Publications & Presentations

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Refereed Publications, Conference Proceedings Papers, and Posters

  • Walker II, J., Menegoni, S, Lunsford, M. L., Morrison, J., "Taping and bracing have no effect on medial-lateral dynamic ankle stability in males and females," in preparation.

  • Donnelly, Suzanne M., Fink,  Alix D. Dowling, Fink, Mark L., Lunsford.  M. Leigh, Rhoten, Melissa C., Scheitlin, Kelsey N., “Full Immersion: The Chesapeake Bay Watershed as an Environment for Learning Science in a Civic Context,” in submission.

  • Pendergrass, M. and Lunsford, M. L., "Bayesian Inference Using Data from a Real Galton Board," a Peer-Reviewed Contributed Beyond Poster at the United States Conference on Teaching Statistics, May 19-21, 2011.

  • Abrams, William P. and Lunsford, M. Leigh, "Mathematical Vignettes in a University-Controlled Freshman Seminar, or 'Oh - That's Cool!'," PRIMUS, Volume 21, Issue 3 (2011), 274-282.

  • Lunsford, M. L. and Poplin, P., "From Research to Practice:  Basic Mathematics Skills and Success in Introductory Statistics," Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 19, Number 1 (2011), www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v19n1/lunsford.pdf

  • Lunsford, M. L. and Fink, A. D. D., "Water Taste Test Data," in the Datasets and Stories section of the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 18, Number 1 (2010), www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v18n1/lunsford.pdf

  • Fink, A. D. D. and Lunsford, M. L., "Bridging the Divides: Using a Collaborative Honors Research Experience to Link Academic Learning to Civic Issues," Honors in Practice, National Collegiate Honors Council, Volume 5, 2009, pages 97-113.

  • Lunsford, M. L., Pendergrass, M., Poplin, P., and Shoenthal, D., "The Naive Chain Rule,"  in  Classroom Capsules of The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 39, No. 2, 2008, p 142-145.

  • Lunsford, M. L., Rowell, G. H., and Goodson-Espy, T. "Assessment of Student Understanding of the Central Limit Theorem," CHANCE Magazine, Vol 21, No 1, 2008, p 27-32.

  • Lunsford, M. L., Rowell, G. H., and Goodson-Espy, T. (2006), "Classroom Research: Assessment of Student Understanding of Sampling Distributions of Means and the Central Limit Theorem in Post-Calculus Probability and Statistics Courses," Journal of Statistics Education [On line] 14(3). www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v14n3/lunsford.html

  • Goodson-Espy, T. J., Lunsford, M. L., & Rowell, G. H., "A Workshop for Grade 5-12 Probability Simulations Based on Adaptations of National Science Foundation Sponsored Curriculum Materials for University Probability & Statistics,"  Proceedings of the International Conference of the Society of Information Technology and Teacher Education (refereed proceedings), March 1-5, 2005, Phoenix, AZ, (pp.3467-3472).

  • Lunsford, M. L., "Generalized Variational and Quasi-Variational Inequalities with Discontinuous Operators", Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Vol. 214, No. 1, Oct 1997, pp. 245-263 (doi:10.1006/jmaa.1997.5625). See a review of this paper in Mathematical Reviews.

Conference Proceedings Papers (Non-Refereed)

Select Publications (Non-Refereed)

  • As a correspondent for the Media Highlights column of The College Mathematics Journal published by the Mathematical Association of America, 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.

  • Lunsford, M. L., Marano, L. E., "PTP 'Women in Mathematics Delegation' Visits China," the Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, Vol. 36, No. 5, Sept.-Oct. 2006, pp. 17-19.

  • Lunsford, M. L., "Back to Academia!," in the electronic newsletter Concerns of Young Mathematicians, Volume 9, Issue 6, September 2001, published by the Young Mathematicians Network.   You can find this article in the YMN archives.

  • Lunsford, M. L., "Enhancement of Virtual Environments to Support Human Factors Engineering and Operations Analysis in the ANVIL", Research Reports, 1998, NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship Programs, Eds. G.R. Karr, L.M. Freeman, J. Dowdy, 1998.

  • Lunsford, M. L., "Virtual Environment Computer Simulations to Support Human Factors Engineering and Operations Analysis for the RLV Program", Research Reports, 1997, NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship Programs, Eds. G.R. Karr, L.M. Freeman, J. Dowdy, p. XXX, 1997.

  • Lunsford, M. L., Existence Results for Generalized Variational Inequalities, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Alabama in Huntsville, 1995.

Select Presentations

  • Galton Meets Bayes: Prior Beliefs Inform the Scientific Method, with Dr. Marcus Pendergrass at the Spring 2011 MD-DC-VA MAA Section Meeting, April 16, 2011.

  • Introductory Statistics and Science: A Collaborative Teaching Approach,  with Alix D. Dowling Fink, at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans, LA, Jan. 9, 2011.

  • Invited Panelist for a Panel Discussion on "Undergraduate Research" in the Section Project NExT Session at the MAA MD-DC-VA Fall 2010 Section Meeting, November 5, George Mason University, Fairfaix, VA.

  • Basic Mathematics Skills and Success in Introductory Statistics (or Could You Pass Intro Stats?), with Phillip Poplin, at the Monday Blackwell Talks at LU, March 1, 2010.

  • Creating and Analyzing cDNA Microarrays: Building Collaborative Undergraduate Research Projects, with Consuelo Alvarez,  MathFest 2007, San Jose, CA, August 5, 2007.

  • Invited Panelist for a Panel Discussion on "Promotion and Tenure" in the Section Project NExT Session at the MAA MD-DC-VA Spring 2007 Section Meeting, April 14, Roanoke College, Roanoke, VA.

  • Co-organizer and co-moderator (with Lisa Marano) for the panel discussion, "Mathematics and Mathematicians in Emerging Nations," Joint Mathematics Meetings, 5 January, 2007, New Orleans, LA.

  • Applying an Action Research Model to Assess Student Understanding of the Central Limit Theorem in Post-Calculus Probability and Statistics Courses,  Lunsford, Myrtis Leigh* ;Goodson-Espy, Tracy;  Rowell, Ginger Holmes, ASA Section on Statistical Education,  2005 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), August 7–11, 2005. *presenter.

  • 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.

  • Averaging Reduces Error, High Point University Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Colloquium invited speaker, March 16, 2005.

  • Organizer and Presenter at a Summer Workshop for College Faculty on Using Activity- and Web-Based Materials in Post Calculus Probability and Statistics Courses, University of Alabama in Huntsville (as part of my NSF Grant), July 2004.

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

  • Grant Writing presented at the Southeastern Project NExT Sessions at the 83rd Annual MAA Southeastern Section Meeting, March 2004 (presentation co-writers:  Tracy Goodson-Espy and Ginger Holmes Rowell).

  • Invited Panelist for a Panel Discussion on "Finding Your Next Job,"  Sponsored by the Young Mathematicians Network and Project NExT, Joint Mathematics Meetings, Phoenix, AZ, January 8, 2004.

  • Incorporating Activities and Web-Based Materials Into High School Probability and Statistics Classes, with Tracy Goodson-Espy, Alabama Council of Teachers Fall Forum, Montgomery, AL, November 14, 2003.

  • Incorporating Activities and Web-Based Materials into Post-Calculus Probability and Statistics, A Preliminary Report,  at the 82nd Annual MAA Southeastern Section Meeting, March 2003.

  • To Infinity and Beyond, Birmingham-Southern College Fall Mathematics Colloquium invited speaker, November 12, 2002.  

  • Grant Writing presented at the Southeastern Project NExT Sessions at the 81st Annual MAA Southeastern Section Meeting, March 2002.

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

  • Computing Beam Shape Loss for Phased Array Radars, at the 80th Annual MAA Southeastern Section Meeting, March, 2001.

  • Lessons Learned in a Phase-In Approach to the HLA Compliance and Migration of Legacy Simulations, at the Spring 2000 Simulation Interoperability Workshop to the Research, Development, and Engineering Forum and the Test and Evaluation Forum, March 2000.

  • Antenna Patterns and Such, UAH Mathematics Club Invited Speaker, December, 1999.

  • Invited Panelist for a Panel Discussion on "Summer Research Opportunities for Faculty in Government and Industry", Joint AMS/MAA Meetings, January 1999.

  • Existence Results for the Generalized Quasi-Variational Inequality, Joint Mathematics Meeting, San Francisco, January 1995.

  • Infinity, UAH Mathematics Club Invited Speaker, October 1994.

  • Some Existence Results for the Generalized Quasi-Variational Problem, Joint Program in Applied Mathematics Meeting, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Fall, 1994.

  • Exponential Distributions on Semigroups, Joint Mathematics Meeting, Baltimore, January 1992.

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