M.A. (Mathematics), 1992; The University of Kansas


B.S. (Applied Mathematics), 1989; The University of Kansas

Teaching Specialties

Algebra, Biomathematics, Calculus, Difference Equations, Differential Equations, Discrete Mathematics, Engineering Mathematics, Trigonometry

Research & Academic Interests

Mathematics  is playing an increasingly more important role in undergraduate biology education.  I am very involved with reform efforts for undergraduate biology degree programs, particularly as they relate to mathematics courses required for biology majors.  I am also involved with bioinformatics offerings and efforts to make biology courses more quantitative in nature.  I have developed and offer a course, Calculus for Biology & Medicine, that is in line with these efforts. Individual interests are primarily in mathematical physiology and systems biology.  My research, albeit limited, is in axonal signal propagation and calcium signaling mechanisms in cardiology.  Mathematically, my areas of interest include dynamical systems, data analysis and modeling, stochastic processes, probability, signal analysis, chaos, and fractals.

Positions

2005-		Professor, Johnson County Community College
1999-2005		Associate Professor, Johnson County Community College
1995-1999		Assistant Professor, Johnson County Community College
1994-1995		Instructor, Wichita State University
1994-1995		Adjunct Instructor, Butler County Community College
1992-1994		Adjunct Instructor, Johnson County Community College
1989-1994		Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Kansas

Grants

• Ubiquotous Computing for Quantitative Literacy in Scholarship, Research, and Learning (UBICOM), National Science Foundation, DRL-CI, Principal Investigator, 2007-9 (0753411 -- pending)
  
• Online Resources to Improve the Teaching and Learning of Differenial Equations:  Encouraging the Widespread Use of Modeling and Computing, National Science Foundation, DUE-CCLI, Senior Personnel, 2007-11 (0717490)
  
• Mathematical Methods for Biology & Medicine, National Science Foundation, DUE-CCLI, Principal Investigator, 2006-9 (0535924)
  
• Dynamic Web Tools, JCCC Innovative Technology Grant, 2005

Professional Honors

• Bellwether Award Finalist for Instruction, Community College Futures Assembly, Orlando, FL, 2007
• Innovation of the Year Award, League for Innovation in the Community College, 2005, 2006
  
• JCCC Research Award, 2005, 2006
  
• International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics Award for Excellence and Innovation with the Use of Technology in Collegiate Mathematics (with Steve Wilson), 2004
• Burlington Northern Santa Fe Teaching Award, 2003, 2006
  
• Distinguished Service Award, 2002-3, 2004-5, 2006-7
  
• Burlington Northern Santa Fe Teaching Award Nominee, 2002

Membership of Professional Organizations

• American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC)
• Technology in Mathematics Education (TiME) Committee 2005-7
  
• Innovative Pedagogy Strategies (IPS) Committee 2007-
  
• Academic Chair 2007-
  
• Kansas Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (KMATYC)
  
• Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
• Mathematical and Computational BIOlogy Special Interest Group of the Mathematical Association of America (BIO SIGMAA)
  
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
  
• Dynamical Systems Activity Group
• Life Sciences Activity Group
• Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB)
• Education Committee 2002-
  

Training & Workshops

Bridging Mathematics, Computing, and Quantitative Science with Biology for Undergraduate Education:  A Workshop for 21^st Century Biology Education, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, 2007

Mathematical Association of America's Digital Library Workshop, MAA Headquarters, Washington, DC, 2006

Computational & Mathematical Biology Workshop for Biology & Mathematics Educators, PRofessional Enhancement Program (PREP) of the Mathematical Association of America & National Computational Science Institute, Sweet Briar College, 2006, 2007

Mathematics for Biologists Workshop, Preceding AMS Regional Meeting, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2005

Computational & Mathematical Biology Workshop for Biology & Mathematics Educators, PRofessional Enhancement Program (PREP) of the Mathematical Association of America & National Computational Science Institute, Harvey Mudd College, 2005

Mathematical Biology for Undergraduate Faculty Summer Program, Park City Mathematics Institute, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, 2005

Systems Biology Dynamics:  From Genes to Organisms, Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics in Physiology and Medicine, McGill University, 2004


Bioinformatics in Biology Education:  Working with Sequence Structure and Function, Bioquest Workshop, Johnson County Community College, 2004


Modeling of Cellular Processes Summer Program, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University, 2004

Optimal Control Applications in Biology Summer Course, University of Tennessee, 2003


Mathematical Neurosciences Summer Program, Mathematical Biosciences Insititute, Ohio State University, 2003


Mathematics of Biological Complexity Summer Course, University of Tennessee, 2002


Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Workshop, Institute for Science Training and Research, Seattle, 2001


Mini Medical School, KU School of Medicine, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003


Regional Institute in Dynamical Systems, Boston University, 1990, 1991, 1992

Presentations

1. Mike Martin, Quantitative & Computational Literacy:  Observations & Implementations for Mathematical Biology, Annual Conference of the Society for Mathematical Biology, Toronto, ON, July 2008
2. Mike Martin with Wayne Brown, Academic Technolog Governance that Works, Learning College Summit, League for Innovation in the Community College, Overland Park, KS, June 2008
3. Mike Martin, Biomedical Applications & webMathematica, MAA-PREP Workshop, Benedictine University, Lisle, IL, June 2008
4. Mike Martin, Biocalculus in Two Year Institutions, MAA-PREP Workshop, Benedictine University, Lisle, IL, June 2008
5. Mike Martin, Mathematical Methods and Modeling in Medicine:  Spanning Early Undergraduate Mathematics in a Relevant Context, 11^th Annual Innovations Conference, League for Innovation in the Community College, Denver, CO, March 2008
6. Mike Martin, Storytelling, Mathematics, and the Digital Tradition:  A Historical Contextfor Conveying Mathematics, 11^th Annual Innovations Conference, League for Innovation in the Community College, Denver, CO, March 2008
7. Mike Martin, Quantitative Literacy in the Life Sciences: Mathematics, Computation,and Modeling for an Evolving Discipline, 11^th Annual Innovations Conference, League for Innovation in the Community College, Denver, CO, March 2008
8. Mike Martin, Signals, Systems, and Socrates:  Mathematics Meets Medicine, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA, March 2008
9. Mike Martin, Angiogenic Signaling in Tumor Development:  Pharmacological Inhibition, Analysis, & Models, AMS Special Session on Biomathematical Modeling, Joint Math Meetings of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America, San Diego, CA, January 2008
10. Mike Martin, Media to Motivate:  Math in the Middle, MAA Session on Biomathematics in the Undergraduate Curriculum, Joint Math Meetings of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America, San Diego, CA, January 2008
11. Mike Martin with Glenn Ledder, Mathematical Methods for Biology & Medicine, National Science Foundation Poster Session, Joint Math Meetings of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America, San Diego, CA, January 2008
12. Mike Martin with Bruce Yoshiwara, MathDL and the Math Gateway:  NSDL Portals for Your Teaching Resources, 33^rd Annual Conference of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges, Minneapolis, MN, November 2007
13. Mike Martin, Concept Videos for Mathematics:  A Context that Encapsulates a Lesson, 33^rd Annual Conference of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges, Minneapolis, MN, November 2007
14. Mike Martin, Mathematical Methods for Biology & Medicine, National Science Foundation Poster Session, 33^rd Annual Conference of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges, Minneapolis, MN, November 2007
15. Mike Martin, Mathematical Methods in Medicine:  Matrices, Models, and Much More, Minisymposium on the Preparation and Engagement of Undergraduates in Biomathematical Research, Joint Meetings of The Society for Mathematical Biology and The Japanese Society for Mathematical Biology, San José, CA, August 2007
16. Mike Martin, Storytelling, Mathematics, and the Digital Tradition:  A Historical Context for Conveying Mathematics, MathFest 2007, The Mathematical Association of America, San José, CA, August 2007
17. Mike Martin, Mathematical Biology:  Curriculum Development in the Community College, Over the Fence:  Mathematicians and Biologists Talk About Bridging the Curricular Divide, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, May 2007
18. Mike Martin, Concept Videos for Mathematics:  A Context that Encapsulates a Lesson, Community College Futures Assembly, Orlando, FL, January 2007
19. Mike Martin, Application Bases that Span the Curriculum:  Pharmacology and Cardiology, Integrating Mathematics & Biology in the Undergraduate Curriculum Minisymposium, Joint Math Meetings of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America, New Orleans, LA, January 2007
20. Mike Martin, Get Rhythm, If You Get to Choose!, Integrating Mathematics & Biology in the Undergraduate Curriculum Minisymposium, Joint Math Meetings of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America, New Orleans, LA, January 2007
21. Mike Martin, Calculus Concept Videos:  A Context that Encapsulates a Lesson, Entertaining with Math Minisymposium, Joint Math Meetings of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America, New Orleans, LA, January 2007
22. Mike Martin with Glenn Ledder, Mathematical Methods for Biology & Medicine, National Science Foundation Poster Session, Joint Math Meetings of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America, New Orleans, LA, January 2007
    
23. Mike Martin with Steve Wilson, Dynamic Web Tools, 32^nd Annual Conference of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges, Cinncinnati, OH, November 2006
24. Mike Martin, Video & Podcasting:  Uses in the Math Classroom, Kansas City Regional Mathematics Technology Expo, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO, September 2006
25. Mike Martin, The Intersection of Math & Biology:  Is It Evolving in the State of Kansas?, Joint Meetings of the Kansas Core Outcomes & the Kansas Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges, Wichita, KS, September 2006
26. Mike Martin, Biocalculus in the Community College:  Transfer, Workforce, & Continuing Education, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Conference on the Life Sciences, Raleigh, NC, August 2006
27. Mike Martin, Mathematical Biosciences:  Early Undergraduate and Secondary School Approaches, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Annual Meeting & Exposition, Saint Louis, MO, April 2006
28. Mike Martin, with Elizabeth Green, & Zhian Wang, Antiangiogenic Therapies for Cancer:  Models & Analysis, Kansas City Life Sciences Research Day, Kansas City, MO, April 2006
29. Mike Martin, Mathematical Biology:  Advancing Interdisciplinarity, 9^th Annual Innovations Conference, League for Innovation in the Community College, Atlanta, GA, March 2006
    
30. Mike Martin, Biomathematics at the Two-Year College, 31^st Annual Conference of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges, San Diego, CA, November 2005
    
31. Mike Martin with Steve Wilson, Dynamic Web Tools for Exploration, Modeling, and Assessment, Kansas City Regional Mathematics Technology Expo, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO, October 2005
32. Mike Martin with Victor Bloomfield, Lawrence Prevett, Mike Saclolo, & Debra Wright, Bacterial Response to Antibiotics:  Modeling Drug-Resistant Strains, Computational & Theoretical Biology Workshop for Biology & Mathematics Educators, National Computational Science Institute & Mathematical Association of America, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA, August 2005
33. Mike Martin, Dynamic Web Tools for Biomathematics:  Curriculum Integration & Assessment, European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology, Dresden, Germany, July 2005
34. Mike Martin with Elizabeth Green & Zhian Wang, Antiangiogenic Therapies for Cancer:  Models & Analysis, Park City Mathematics Institute, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, Park City, UT, July 2005
35. Mike Martin, Dynamic Web Tools for Biomathematics:  Bringing Realistic Models to Secondary Education, Linking Mathematics and Biology in the High Schools, Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DiMaCS), Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, April 2005
    
36. Mike Martin, Calcium Transients in Ventricular Myocyte, Kansas City Life Sciences Research Day, Overland Park, KS, April 2005
37. Mike Martin, Neural Signal Propagation Along Axonal Inhomogeneities, Kansas City Life Sciences Research Day, Overland Park, KS, April 2005
    
38. Mike Martin with Steve Wilson, Dynamic Web Tools for Undergraduate Mathematics, Kansas Section Meeting of the Mathematical Association of America, Lawrence, KS, March 2005
    
39. Mike Martin with Steve Wilson, Dynamic Web Tools for Undergraduate Mathematics, International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, New Orleans, LA, October 2004
40. Mike Martin, XPPAUT:  Dynamical  Systems Analysis and Simulation, Kansas City Regional Mathematics Technology Expo, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO, October 2004
41. Mike Martin, Calculus for the Life Sciences:  How Does It Rate?, Kansas City Regional Mathematics Technology Expo, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO, October 2004
42. Mike Martin, Modeling Calcium Dynamics in Ventricular Myocytes, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, August 2004
43. Mike Martin, Calculus for the Life Sciences:  Advancing Interdisciplinary Instruction, Mathematics Department Colloquium, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, March 2004
    
44. Mike Martin, Traveling Waves & Mathematical Biology, Mathematics Department Colloquium, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS, March 2004
    
45. Mike Martin, XPPAUT Tutorial:  Simulating, Analyzing, & Animating Dynamical Systems, Mathematical Physiology Seminar Series, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, February 2004
46. Mike Martin, Signal Propagation Along Nonuniform Axon, Mathematical Physiology Seminar Series, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, October 2003
47. Mike Martin with Steve Wilson, A Bare Bones Guide to webMathematica, Kansas City Regional Mathematics Technology Expo, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO, October 2003
48. Mike Martin, Nonlinear Wave Propagation:  Pulses & Kinematics, Mathematical Physiology Seminar Series, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, October 2003
49. Mike Martin, Nonlinear Wave Propagation:  Fronts & Myelination, Mathematical Physiology Seminar Series, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, September 2003
50. Mike Martin, Biomathematics in the Two-Year College, International Conference on Mathematical Biology, Dundee, Scotland, August 2003
51. Mike Martin, Signal Propagation Along Nonuniform Axon, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, August 2003
52. Mike Martin, Excitability:  The Mathematics of Action Potentials, Mathematics Department Colloquium, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS, April 2003
53. Mike Martin with Steve Wilson, A Bare Bones Guide to webMathematica, Joint Meetings of the Missouri and Kansas Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges, Overland Park, KS, March 2003
54. Mike Martin, Excitability:  Cardiac Cells & Rhythmicity, Mathematical Physiology Seminar Series, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, February 2003
55. Mike Martin, Excitability:  Qualitative Analysis & Two-Variable Models, Mathematical Physiology Seminar Series, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, February 2003
56. Mike Martin, Excitability:  The Hodgkin-Huxley Model, Mathematical Physiology Seminar Series, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, January 2003
57. Mike Martin, Biomathematics:  Curriculum & Technology, Conference on Information Technology, The League for Innovation in the Community College, Long Beach, CA, November 2002
    
58. Mike Martin, Biomathematics:  Curriculum, Models, & Technology, Kansas City Regional Mathematics Technology Expo, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO, October 2002
59. Mike Martin, Biomathematics:  Observations & Models, Mathematics Department Colloquium, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS, November 2001

Other Professional Activities

• β-Tester for Mathematica & webMathematica, 2004
• Textbook reviewer for numerous titles in algebra, trigonometry, calculus, differential equations, linear algebra, & applied mathematics
  
• Technology Board of Advisors for Calculus, McGraw-Hill
• Concept Videos for Calculus and Developmental Mathematics (Development, Writing, Conceptual Oversight, & Talent), McGraw-Hill

Service to the Department of Mathematics, JCCC

• Taught the following courses:
• Intermediate Algebra
• Finite Mathematics
  
• College Algebra
• Trigonometry
• Pre-Calculus
  
• Discrete Mathematics
• Applied Calculus I
• Applied Calculus II
• Calculus for Biology & Medicine
• Calculus I
• Calculus II
  
• Calculus III
• Differential Equations
• Advanced Engineering Mathematics
• Developed the following new courses:
• Calculus for Biology & Medicine
• Mathematical Methods for Biology & Medicine
  
• Advanced Engineering Mathematics
• Developed the following online courses:
• Trigonometry
• Calculus for Biology & Medicine
• Mathematical Methods for Biology & Medicine
• Calculus I
• Differential Equations
  
• Course Curriculum Coordinator for the following courses:
• Discrete Mathematics
• Calculus for Biology & Medicine
• Calculus I
• Calculus III
• Differential Equations
• Advanced Engineering Mathematics
• Honors mentor for the following courses:
• Calculus for Biology & Medicine
• Calculus II
• Advanced Engineering Mathematics
• Served on the following committees:
• Contests & Scholarship
  
• Engineering Transfer
• Peer Review
  
• Professional Development
• Technology
• Chaired the following committees:
• Engineering Transfer
• Technology
  

Service to the Science, Health Care, & Mathematics Division, JCCC

• Cluster Representative, JCCC Faculty Association
• Member of the Vice President for Instruction's Faculty Advisory Committee
  
• Member of the Instructional Technology Proposal Committee
  
• Member of the Institutional Computing Planning and Advising Committee
  
• Member of the Educational Technology Advisory Committee
• Member of the Learning Communities Advisory Committee
  

Service to the College, JCCC

• President, JCCC Faculty Association, 2007-
• Faculty Representative on the Presidential Screening Committee, 2006-7
• Co-Chair of Academic Technology Advisory Council, 2006-7
  
• Vice President, JCCC Faculty Association, 2006-7
• Faculty Representative, Finance Committee, 2006-
  
• SHCM Representative, Instructional Technology Proposal Committee, 2003, 2005, 2006
  
• Co-Chair of the Wireless Committee, 2005-2006
  
• Member of the Chief Information Officer Search Committee, 2004
  
• Member of the Malcolm Baldridge Award Application Committee, 2004-6
  
• Member of the Faculty Sabbatical Committee, 2001-2005
• Chair of the Faculty Sabbatical Committee, 2003-2004
  
• Member of the Kansas Award for Excellence Application Committee, 2003-2004
  
• Faculty Advisor for JCCC's Premed Club, 2003-
  

Service to the Profession, Community, State, & Nation

• Co-organized Current Trends in Biomathematics Education Minisymposium for Society for Mathematical Biology's Annual Conference, Toronto, ON, August, 2008
• Grant Reviewer, National Science Foundation, CCLI Solication for the Division of Undergraduate Education, July 2008
• Co-Organizer, Biocalculus:  Designing Calculus Courses for the Life Science Majors, PRofessional Enhancement Program (PREP) of the Mathematical Association of America, Benedictine College, 2008
• Grant Reviewer, National Science Foundation, S-STEM Solication for the Division of Undergraduate Education, January 2008
• Mathematics Section Editor,  Biological ESTEEM Collection:  Excel Simulations and Tools for Exploratory, Experiential Mathematics, 2007-
  
• Vice President, Alliance Uniserv for the Blue Valley School District and Johnson County Community College, National Education Association, 2007-
  
• Co-Organizer, Computational & Mathematical Biology Workshop for Biology & Mathematics Educators, PRofessional Enhancement Program (PREP) of the Mathematical Association of America & National Computational Science Institute, Sweet Briar College, 2007
• Grant Reviewer, National Science Foundation, CCLI Solication for the Division of Undergraduate Education, July 2006
• External Peer Reviewer, Rutherford Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, University of Alberta, 2006-7
  
• Recruited & chaired an educational minisymposium for Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Conference on the Life Sciences, Raleigh, NC, August, 2006
• Member of the Kansas Core Outcomes Team, Mathematics, 2005-
  
• Recruited & chaired two educational minisymposium for the Society for Mathematical Biology at the joint meetings with the European Society for Theoretical & Mathematical Biology in Dresden, Germany, July, 2005
• Member of the Health-Related Information Technology Hot Team for the Kansas Bioscience and Innovation Roadmap, 2005
• Member of the Education Committee for the Society of Mathematical Biology, 2002-
• Recruited & organized the Bioinformatics in Education workshop presented by the Bioquest Consortium at Johnson County Community College, 2004
• Mentor in the Preparing Future Faculty Program for the University of Kansas, 2003
  
• Member of the Advisory Board for KU School of Medicine's Mini Medical School, 2002-2004
• Recruited & organized the Minimedical School offering presented by the University of Kansas School of Medicine at Johnson County Community College, 2003

E-mail Address: mmartin@jccc.edu