Additional Information

Education

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

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.”

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.

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 [A1])

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])

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.

[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]).