Curriculum Vita
Education
- B.A. in Mathematics with a minor in Computer Science
Oberlin College 1996 - Budapest Semesters in Mathematics
Fall 1996—Spring 1997 - Ph.D in Mathematics
The Pennsylvania State University, 2002 - Masters in Applied Statistics
The Pennsylvania State University, 2016
Work experience
- Statistical Consultant, Contamination Source Investigation
Fall 2019—present
Helped with various statistical procedures including establishing Level of Detection and modeling probabilities of testing people positive with pooled and unpooled testing. - Statistical Consultant, Wright Labs
Fall 2019—present
Worked with implementing and analyzing output from various statistical routines including SparCC and SourceTracker. - Professor of Mathematics
Fall 2006—present, current rank since Fall 2016
Juniata College - Co—developed Juniata's program in Data Science both undergraduate and masters and currently Director of the Masters Program.
- Developed asynchronous online masters course in data science: Data Science Fundamentals, Mathematics Fundamentals, Statistics Fundamentals, and Capstone. Taught Mathematics Fundamentals and the Capstone.
- Advised students, co—advised the math club and knitting club.
- Served on Personal Evaluation Committee, General Education Steering Committee, Student Academic Development, Curriculum Committee, Committee on Advancement and Marketing. Faculty Governance Committee, a Middle States Working Group, the Science in Motion Advisory Committee, Mellon Grant Group in Integrative and Applied Learning co—chair, Summer Inquiry groups, and the Q assessment committee.
- Lead Integrated Science Learning Community as part of the past HHMI grant.
- Reader
Summers 2015—present (except 2021)
AP Statitics reader, Table leader since 2023, Past AP Calculus reader - Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Fall 2002—Spring 2006
Wheeling (formally Wheeling Jesuit) University - Advised students, mentored senior theses, and did service within my department and in the university.
Selected Awards
- Beachley Award for Distinguished Academic Service — For service to Juniata College. May 2023
- SoTL grant from Juniata College For developement and assessment of Calculus 1 co-requsite class for Summer 2023.
- Dex Whittinghill Award — for best talk in SIGMAA Statistics and Data Science Education session at Mathfest 2022.
- SoTL grant from Juniata College — on best practices for math outreach related to the Mathemalchemy exhibit. Summer 2022.
- Innovative Educational Initiative Grant from Juniata College — For installing, exhibiting, and providing busing funds for local schools to Mathemalchemy at the Juniata College Museum of Art.
- Distinguished Faculty Mentor of Undergraduate Mathematics Students Award — For mentoring undergraduate students in research. From the Allegheny Mountain Section of the Mathematical Association of America. April 2022.
- SoTL grants from Juniata College — for research on student engagement with the common reading program. Summer 2019 and 2020.
- Robert V. Hogg Award for Excellence in Teaching Introductory Statistics — National award from the Special Interest Group of the Mathematical Association of America (SIGMAA) on Statistics Education. January 2019.
- SoTL grant from Juniata College — “What is the most effective format for practice and feedback for Calculus I students at Juniata” with Kristin Camenga, Summer 2018.
- Service Award} — “for service to the Allegheny Mountain Section of the Mathematical Association of America. April 2017.
- SoTL grant from Juniata College — Calculus precalculus review project with Henry Escuadro, Summer 2015 and 2016.
- HHMI Summer Research Grant with Gina Lamendella, — “What Are the Comparative Effects of Metronidazole, Vancomycin and Fidaxomicin on Host Associated Gut Microbial Communities?” Summer 2016.
- HHMI Summer Research Grant with Gina Lamendella — “Modeling the degredation potential of groundwater microbial communities using multi—omics data sets.” Summer 2015.
- Course revision grant for finding and including genomics data in Introduction to Probability and Statistics — part of the HHMi funded genomics initiative at Juniata college, August 2013.
- SoTL grant from Juniata College — Calculus clicker project Summer 2008 and Summer 2009.
- Project NExT Fellow, NExT, which stands for New Experiences in Teaching — a national year long program of the MAA for new math faculty, Summer 2002 through Summer 2003.