Department of Mathematics
Johnson County Community College, Box 29
12345 College Boulevard
Overland Park, KS 66210
2011.1.11 | NEWS, UPDATES, ACTIVITIES
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Some recent/upcoming initiatives/responsibilities include:
Co-Organizer, MAA
Session on Trends in Undergraduate Mathematical Biology Education,
Joint Mathematics Meetings of the
American Mathematical Society & the Mathematics Association of
America, New
Orleans, LA, 2011.
In Press, Mathematical
Biology: Tools for Inquiry on the Internet, American
Mathematical Society Special Volume, BioMath in the Schools, 2011
Principal Investigator, Mathematical
Methods for Biology & Medicine (NSF DUE #0535924). The
work includes
developing a new course, Mathematical
Methods for Biology &
Medicine. The grant also extends materials and offerings
for the
existing Calculus for Biology &
Medicine course that JCCC currently
offers.
Involved as an editor and trainer with an NSF grant to
revive the
CODEE resources and provide a related
infrastructure to support contemporary differential equations
instruction. This grant, with principal investigators at Harvey
Mudd College, is entitled Online
Resources to Improve the Teaching
and Learning of Differential Equations: Encouraging the
Widespread Use of Modeling and Computing (NSF DUE
#0717490).
Contributor, MathDL Workshop for the NSDL (National Science
Digital Library), The Carriage House, Mathematical Association of
America, Washington, DC in 2008, 2009, & 2010
Plenary Talk, Mathematics,
Medicine, & Imaging, Annual Conference of the Missouri
Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (MOMATYC), April 2010
Participant, Computational
Biology for Biology Educators, National Computational Science
Institute, University of California – Merced, June 2009
President, JCCC Faculty Association, 2007-2009
Academic Chair, Innovative
Teaching & Learning Committee,
American
Mathematical Association for Two-Year Colleges, 2008-2009
Co-Facilitator, Implementing
Best Practices in Courses Below Calculus, Traveling Workshop for
American
Mathematical Association for Two-Year Colleges, Los Angeles, CA in 2008
Contributor, Dynamical
Systems in Physiological Modeling,
Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, West Lafayette, IN in 2008
Developing web tools and modules for mathematical biology
topics,
particularly as they relate to biology, biotechnology, chemistry,
physiology, &
medicine. The idea that has emerged is a modular learning
community hosted/facilitated through technology. Integrating the
use of the WeBWorK
homework system in my mathematics courses.