Additional Information
Education
- Graduate GPA: 3.9
- Undergraduate GPA: 3.9
Scholarly Funding
- Internal:
- University of Delaware International
Travel Grant, 1998
- University of Delaware Arts
and
Science
Award, 1998
- Instructional
Supplement
Grant, Center for Teaching Effectiveness, University of Delaware,
1997
Honors
- Undergraduate:
- Caltech Merit Scholar, 1989-90
- Southern California Edison Scholarship, 1987-90
- National Merit Scholarship, 1987-88
- Master's Cup, 1990
- In recognition of students "whose concern for others has been
demonstrated by persistent efforts to improve the quality of
undergraduate life at Caltech."
Experience
- June 1990-July 1994
- Graduate Research Assistant
- California
Institute of
Technology
- Pasadena, California
- Used asymptotic and perturbation techniques to investigate
equations designed to model non-Fickian diffusion in polymers.
- Summers 1991-1993
- Editor, Technique
(Graduate Student Handbook)
- California Institute of Technology
- Pasadena, California
- Working alone, revised and updated the 200-page handbook
distributed to graduate students each year. Used time-management and
organizational skills extensively.
- Summer 1989
- Undergraduate Research Fellow
- California Institute of Technology
- Pasadena, CA
- Advisor: Prof.
Doug Flamming
- Performed statistical analysis of a series of employee opinion
polls. Analyzed historical trends of data. Job involved extensive data
entry, analysis, and library research.
Presentations and Workshops
- Invited Presentations (Interviews):
- Department of
Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University, February 1997
- Department of Mathematics
and Computer Science, Kent State University, February 1997
- Department of
Mathematics, North Carolina State University, February 1997
- Department of
Mathematics, University of Central Florida, February 1997
- Department of Mathematical
Sciences, University of Delaware, February 1997
- Department
of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, February
1997
- Department of
Mathematics, University of Texas at Arlington, February 1997
- Department of Mathematics,
Texas A&M University, January 1997
- Department of Mathematics,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, January 1997
- Department of Mathematics,
University of Maryland, College Park, March(?) 1995
- Courant Institute of
Mathematical Sciences, New York University, February 1994
- Department of
Applied Physics, Columbia University, February 1994
- Department
of Mathematics, Southern Methodist University, February(?) 1994
- Department of Mathematics,
New Jersey Institute of Technology, January(?) 1994
- Contributed Papers:
- American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco,
November 1991
- (research presented by co-author; see old [O1])
- Workshops:
- National
Science Foundation-Conference
Board of the Mathematical Sciences Regional Conference on Mathematical
Analysis of Viscoelastic Flows, Newark, DE, June 1999
- Workshop on Perturbation Methods in Applied Mathematics, Troy,
June 1993
- IMA Summer Program for
Graduate Students in Mathematical Modeling, Minneapolis, August 1992
- (proceedings published; see new [O1]-[O4])
Service
- Graduate:
- Member, Caltech Committee on Sexual Harassment, 1994
- Member, Graduate Student Council Publications
Committee, 1991-94
- Member, Graduate Interview Committee for Assistant Vice President
for Student Affairs, 1993
- Member, Manager of Housing Search Committee, 1993
- Worked to revise Institute sexual assault procedures.
- Undergraduate:
- Member, Student Curricular Advisory Committee
- Member, Focus Discussion Group
- This group met to discuss various concerns regarding the
quality of life at Caltech.
- Upperclass Counselor
- Secretary, Student House
- Other:
- Inspector, Election Precincts, 1992-94
- Panel Vice Chair, California
Department of Education Legal Compliance Committee, 1994
- Panel Member, CDELCC, 1992
- This committee reviews textbooks submitted for use in
California schools to see if they comply with social content
regulations.
- Performed occasional volunteer work for the Pasadena Rape
Crisis Center, 1992.
Other Publications
- [A1]
- "Trace
Element Partitioning During Dissolution and Crystallization in a Closed
System: Equations Incorporating Linear Variation of Partition
Coefficients
in the Crystallizing Phase and Convective or Diffusive Dissolution."
Abstract. EOS 72 (1991): 577 (with Allen
K. Kennedy et al., paper published, see [J8]).
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