Dr. Wendy Smith, Associate Professor of Mathematics Education, had her book, “Math & Me: Embracing Success“, reviewed in the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) journal Mathematics Teacher, Volume 9, No. 2 (September 2015). The book was co-written with Dr. B. Sidney Smith.
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Dr. Kenneth Pestka II of Longwood University and Jennifer Heindel, museum educator at the Abbe Museum, collaborated on the paper, “An Interdisciplinary Approach to Drag Forces: Estimating Floodwater Speed from Displaced Riverbed Boulders”. The paper appears as a feature article in the May issue of The Physics Teacher and is freely available for download at the AIP […]
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Dr. Robert Marmorstein, Associate Professor of Computer Science, was published in the Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, January 2015, pp. 117-125. He presented his paper “Teaching semaphores using… semaphores” at the CCSC Eastern District Conference in York, PA.
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Don Blaheta, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, was published in the Proceedings of the 46th ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education, March 2015, pp. 476–481. He presented his paper “Unci: a C++-based Unit-testing Framework for Intro Students” at the SIGSCE conference in Kansas City, MO.
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Dr. Kenneth Pestka II has been awarded a grant from Siemens PLM for Femap with NX Nastran (valued at $678,500). The grant provides an opportunity for Longwood University physics and dual-degree engineering students to have access to this world leading finite element modeling software. This innovative software is used in advanced manufacturing, research and development […]
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David Shoenthal, Associate Professor of Mathematics, was published in the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics. His article, “Improving Project Success in an Online Mathematics Course,” appears in Volume 5, Issue 1 (2015).
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Leigh Lunsford, Professor of Mathematics, presented “Helping Statistical Concepts ‘Click’ with Students” (January 10) and co-taught the MAA minicourse “Teaching Introductory Statistics (for instructors new to teaching statistics)” (January 11, 13) at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Antonio, TX.
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Wendy Smith, Associate Professor of Mathematics Education, co-presented “Turbo-charging freshman engagement in introductory courses through a 2-lecture motivational seminar on how and why to succeed at college mathematics” at the 2015 Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Antonio, TX on January 12, 2015. Dr. Smith will expand on this topic at her Blackwell talk on March […]
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Thomas Wears, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, presented “Lorentzian Ricci Solitons On Nilpotent Lie Groups” at the 2015 Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Antonio, TX on January 13, 2015.
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Dr. Robert Marmorstein presented a paper, “Teaching Semaphores Using . . . Semaphores”, at the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges Eastern Region Conference. The article will be published in the Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges.
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