I am currently a professor at Goucher College, a small, private liberal arts college in the Baltimore area. I love teaching and have had the opportunity to teach several different classes including Calculus, Differential Equations, Scientific Computation, and even conversational English (as a graduate student)! I helped redesign our calculus sequence at Goucher, and was a primary developer of our new first semester calculus course, Calculus Through Data and Modeling, that focuses on application, interpreting solutions in context, and using calculus to analyze datasets with the help of RStudio. I am also helped to create a new interdisciplinary data analytics major.
One of my favorite parts of my graduate education was the breadth of my training, allowing me to take classes and do research in several different areas of mathematics. As a graduate of Denison University, a liberal arts school in Ohio, and a faculty member at a liberal arts institution, I highly value obtaining an education with a great deal of breadth. My research as an applied mathematician underscores my belief in the importance of the interaction between disciplines. I have worked on research projects with applications in geophysics, health, medical imaging, and transportation. The liberal arts has always been a good description of my life in both academically and extracurricularly.
When I am not working on interesting math problems, I spend most of my time traveling, learning about other cultures, swing dancing, knitting, studying the Bible, teaching children, singing at church, trying to brush up on my French and teach myself Spanish (and a little Hungarian and Hebrew...), hiking, playing a variety of board games, watching t.v. shows and movies, reading, and swimming, when I get a chance.
The pictures on each page show that I have had the opportunity to live in many places, which I am so thankful for! I grew up in a suburb of Chicago (Deerfield, IL), spent two years of my childhood in Toronto, Canada, went to Denison in Granville, OH (where I spent a summer and a semester abroad in France), and lived in Nantes, France for a year. I have also lived in Clemson, SC and have had the chance to spend a summer in Bremen, Germany, a semester in San Antonio, TX and a few weeks in Hungary and Romania.
One of my favorite parts of my graduate education was the breadth of my training, allowing me to take classes and do research in several different areas of mathematics. As a graduate of Denison University, a liberal arts school in Ohio, and a faculty member at a liberal arts institution, I highly value obtaining an education with a great deal of breadth. My research as an applied mathematician underscores my belief in the importance of the interaction between disciplines. I have worked on research projects with applications in geophysics, health, medical imaging, and transportation. The liberal arts has always been a good description of my life in both academically and extracurricularly.
When I am not working on interesting math problems, I spend most of my time traveling, learning about other cultures, swing dancing, knitting, studying the Bible, teaching children, singing at church, trying to brush up on my French and teach myself Spanish (and a little Hungarian and Hebrew...), hiking, playing a variety of board games, watching t.v. shows and movies, reading, and swimming, when I get a chance.
The pictures on each page show that I have had the opportunity to live in many places, which I am so thankful for! I grew up in a suburb of Chicago (Deerfield, IL), spent two years of my childhood in Toronto, Canada, went to Denison in Granville, OH (where I spent a summer and a semester abroad in France), and lived in Nantes, France for a year. I have also lived in Clemson, SC and have had the chance to spend a summer in Bremen, Germany, a semester in San Antonio, TX and a few weeks in Hungary and Romania.