Recognized university-wide for teaching and student impact. Four alumni-nominated Golden Apple Teaching Awards, the 2024 Provost's Distinguished Teaching Award, and the 2024 Jearl D. Walker Teaching Award.
Provost's Distinguished Teaching Award (University)
Jearl D. Walker Teaching Award (College of Arts and Sciences)
CSU Alumni Golden Apple Teaching Award
CSU Provost Faculty Merit Award (Teaching & Research)
Faculty Champion Award, Center for Faculty Excellence
Penn State Department of Mathematics Teaching Award
I'm a CSU Affordability Advocate and have built open resources that cut textbook costs for students, including an OER approach to linear algebra published in PRIMUS.
Lowering the cost of a math degree without lowering its quality. That work earned an OER Faculty Letter of Recognition and feeds directly into the courses I teach.
Free, self-authored lecture notes, yours to use:
Students present work in progress and completed projects, sharpen their presentations, and get feedback. Advanced topics and current topics of interest get discussed openly so students see the power of higher mathematics and its applications to the real world. We use the mantra “Math with a Purpose.”
Twelve sections of eight different courses across the University of Akron, Penn State, Kent State, and CSU, with consistently high evaluations. Add your current term's offerings below.
Single- and multivariable calculus.
Taught with open educational resources.
ODEs and applications to modeling.
Agent-based models, PDEs, and simulation.
Current course offerings: MTH undergraduate course offerings.
