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Education<\/h1>\n

Ph.D. \u00a0Northwestern University, 1991 (Stewart B. Priddy, advisor)<\/h4>\n

M.S. \u00a0 Northwestern University, 1988<\/h4>\n

B.A. \u00a0 Brandeis University, 1986<\/h4>\n

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Academic Experience<\/h1>\n

St. Olaf College, 1996-present<\/h4>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Grace A. Whittier Endowed Chair in Science, 2018-2021<\/h5>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Director, Computer Science Program, 2018-2020<\/h5>\n
Chair, MSCS Department, 2010-2015<\/h5>\n
Professor, 2010-present<\/h5>\n
Associate Professor, 2002-2009<\/h5>\n
Assistant Professor, 1996-2002<\/h5>\n

Alfr\u00e9d R\u00e9nyi Institute of Mathematics, Hungary, Visiting Research Fellow, 2016<\/h4>\n

University of Otago, Dunedin NZ, Visiting Researcher, 2003<\/h4>\n

Gettysburg College, Assistant Professor, 1995-1996<\/h4>\n

University of Washington, 1991-1995<\/h4>\n

Visiting Assistant Professor, 1994-1995<\/h5>\n
Acting Assistant Professor, 1991-1994<\/h5>\n

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Professional Activity<\/h1>\n

Publications<\/h3>\n
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  1. Automorphism orbits of some metacyclic p<\/em>-groups, with Maddie Klein, Sam Nycklemoe, and Kyla Pohl, PME Journal<\/em>, 14<\/strong> (9) (2018), 557-564.<\/li>\n
  2. Constructing subgroups of semi-direct products via generalized derivations, with Asa Giannini, Akina Khan, and Michael Schroeder, MJUM<\/em>, 4<\/strong> (1) (2018).<\/li>\n
  3. On the Chermak-Delgado lattices of metacyclic p<\/em>-groups, with Erin Brush, Kendra Johnson-Tesch, and Brianne Power,\u00a0Involve<\/em>, 9<\/strong> (2016) 765-782.<\/li>\n
  4. Resurrecting Wells\u2019 exact sequence and Buckley\u2019s group action, accepted for publication in Proceedings of Groups St. Andrews 2013<\/em>, Cambridge University Press.<\/li>\n
  5. Book review of \u201cAn Invitation to Abstract Mathematics\u201d by B\u00e9la Bajnok, in MAA Reviews online, May 2014. http:\/\/www.maa.org\/publications\/maa-reviews\/an-invitation-to-abstract-mathematics<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  6. Creating a culture of inquiry in mathematics programs, PRIMUS<\/em>, 23<\/strong> (2013) 837-859.<\/li>\n
  7. Automorphism groups of semi-direct products, Communications in Algebra<\/em>, 40<\/strong> (2012) 3308-3316.<\/li>\n
  8. Using a \u201csingle story\u201d as an integrative thread in an upper-level mathematics course, in PRIMUS<\/em>: Problems, Resources, and Issues in Mathematics Undergraduate Studies, 19<\/strong> (2009), 311-328.<\/li>\n
  9. On automorphisms of products of groups, in Proceedings of Groups St. Andrews 2005<\/em> (London Math- ematical Society Lecture Note Series: 339), C. M. Campbell et al, ed., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2007.<\/li>\n
  10. Stable splittings of classifying spaces of groups: Bridging the work of Benson-Feshbach and Martino- Priddy, Homotopy, Homology and Applications,<\/em> 8<\/strong> (2) (2006), 75-90.<\/li>\n
  11. Discovering abstract algebra: A constructivist approach to module theory, in Innovative Approaches to Undergraduate Mathematics Courses Beyond Calculus<\/em>, Richard Maher, ed., Mathematical Association of America, Washington, DC, 2005.<\/li>\n
  12. Automorphisms of p-groups given as cyclic-by-elementary abelian central extensions, Journal of Algebra,<\/em> 242<\/strong> (2001), 417-432.<\/li>\n
  13. Classifying spaces of central group extensions, with Tommy Ratliff, in Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics 63: Group Representations: Cohomology, Group Actions and Topology<\/em>, American Mathematical Society, Providence, 1998.<\/li>\n
  14. The cohomology of groups with rank 2 Sylow p-subgroups, with John Martino and Stewart Priddy, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society,<\/em> 124<\/strong> (1996), 2261-2266.<\/li>\n
  15. The stable homotopy type of rank two p-groups, with Stewart Priddy, in Contemporary Mathematics 188: Homotopy Theory and its Applications<\/em>, American Mathematical Society, Providence, 1995.<\/li>\n
  16. The role of the Steinberg module in splitting BG, in Contemporary Mathematics 158: Connections between Algebraic Topology and Representation Theory<\/em>, American Mathematical Society, Providence, 1994.<\/li>\n
  17. Stable splittings of classifying spaces of metacyclic 2-groups, Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society,<\/em> 116<\/strong> (1994), 285-299.<\/li>\n
  18. Stable splittings of classifying spaces of metacyclic p-groups, p odd, Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra,<\/em> 90<\/strong> (1993), 115-136.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n

    \u00a0 Student Research Publications<\/h3>\n
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    1. James Checco \u201910, Rachel Darling \u201911, Stephen Longfield \u201910, Katherine Wisdom \u201910. On the fixed points of abelian group automorphisms, Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Research Journal,<\/em> 11<\/strong> (2) (2010).<\/li>\n
    2. Daniel Endean \u201909, Kristin Henry \u201907, and Erin Manlove \u201907. Zero-divisor graphs of Zn and polynomial quotient rings over Zn, Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Research Journal,<\/em> 8\u00a0<\/strong>(2) (2007).<\/li>\n
    3. Stephanie Libera \u201903 and Paul Tlucek \u201903. Some perfect order subset groups, Pi Mu Epsilon Journal,<\/em> 11<\/strong> (2003), 495\u2013498. This paper won the 3rd place 2003 Richard V. Andree Award.<\/li>\n
    4. Eric Wilbur \u201900. Topspin: Solvability of sliding number games, Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Research Journal,<\/em> 2<\/strong> (2001).<\/li>\n
    5. Mark Schulte \u201901. Automorphisms of metacyclic p-groups with cyclic maximal subgroups, Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Research Journal,<\/em> 2<\/strong> (2001).<\/li>\n
    6. Mark Afdahl \u201998, Gretchen Christianson \u201998, Alfred Furth \u201998, Kirsten Knudson \u201998, Sarah Volkenant \u201998, and Jill Dietz, The probability that two elements in an extra-special p-group commute, Pi Mu Epsilon Journal<\/em>, 11<\/strong> (2001), 169\u2013173.<\/li>\n
    7. Nitish Dass \u201901, Jonathan McGrath \u201901, and Erin Urbanski \u201900. The Alexander polynomial of pretzel knots, Pi Mu Epsilon Journal<\/em>, 11<\/strong> (2000), 135\u2013137. This paper won a 2000 Richard V. Andree Award.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n

      \u00a0 Supervised Student Research Projects<\/h3>\n
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      1. Brett Aplin \u201904, Andrea Johnson \u201904, and Erik Lee \u201904, Automorphisms of central products.<\/li>\n
      2. Amanda Bauer \u201916, Corey Brooke \u201916, and Nicholas Rekuski \u201916, An initial understanding of derivation groups.<\/li>\n
      3. Jennifer Beilfuss \u201901, Julie Beilfuss \u201901, Liv Anda Knatterud \u201901, and Tim Laffredi \u201901, Hamiltonian circuits in Cayley graphs of finite group.<\/li>\n
      4. Julie Beilfuss \u201901, Benjamin French \u201901, Eric Johnson \u201902, and Liv Anda Knatterud \u201901, Determinants of n-linked knots.<\/li>\n
      5. Jill Bierbrauer \u201998 and Jessie Ellwein \u201998, Weird dice.<\/li>\n
      6. David Bode \u201999 and Brian Grivna \u201998, Wild and crazy orbits.<\/li>\n
      7. Kathy Bohlman \u201901, Sarah Cherry \u201901, and David Croom \u201900, Graph theory of D_2n graphs.<\/li>\n
      8. Chris Brav \u201902, Automorphism groups of extra-special p-groups of order p^3.<\/li>\n
      9. Chris Brav \u201902, John Farrell \u201901, and Grant Riewe \u201901, The automorphism group of an extra-special p-group of order p^3.<\/li>\n
      10. Amy Brendel \u201999 and Mark Schulte \u201999, Automorphisms of metacyclic 2-groups.<\/li>\n
      11. Erin Brush \u201914, Kendra Johnson-Tesch \u201915, and Brianne Power \u201915, On Chermak-Delgado lattices of split metacyclic p-groups.<\/li>\n
      12. Joshua Campbell \u201908, Christopher Evatt \u201910, and David McClure \u201908, Carry groups.<\/li>\n
      13. Joshua Campbell \u201908 and Thomas McConville \u201909, Binormalizers and conjugacy classes of products.<\/li>\n
      14. Joshua Chai \u201901, John Farrell \u201901, Rick Lassow \u201901, and Paul Pearson \u201901, Automorphisms of finite groups.<\/li>\n
      15. Nathan Clement \u201910 and Vladimir Sotirov \u201912, Mutual lifts in semi-direct products.<\/li>\n
      16. Ryan Coopergard \u201915, Joey Dickens \u201914, and Gabrielle Sanderson, On the Chermak-Delgado lattices of metacyclic groups.<\/li>\n
      17. Sarah De Vries ’18, Derek DeBlieck ’18, Marlyne Hakizimana ’18, and Kevin Yetter ’19, Factorizations of metacyclic groups and their automorphism groups.<\/li>\n
      18. Kelly Dolan \u201907, Tyson Gern \u201908, and Lincoln James \u201910, The probability that two elements in a group commute.<\/li>\n
      19. Katie Durham \u201901, Ben French \u201901, and Vicky Schultz \u201901, The probability that an element is fixed by an automorphism.<\/li>\n
      20. Erika Franklin \u201900, H. Jay Picconatto \u201900, Sarah Wisneski \u201901, and Erik Wammer \u201900, Cayley graphs of odd order.<\/li>\n
      21. Tyson Gern \u201908, Bethany Johnson \u201907, and Trese Overacker \u201907, Factor rings of the Eisenstein integers.<\/li>\n
      22. Asa Giannini \u201916, Akina Khan \u201916, and Michael Schroeder \u201916, On subgroups of semi-direct products.<\/li>\n
      23. Karin Gilje \u201908 and Philip Gipson \u201909, Automorphisms of direct products of groups.<\/li>\n
      24. Barbie Gregory \u201999, Kevin Evans \u201999, Sarah Kueffer \u201999, and Mark Schulte \u201999, Group labeling of knots.<\/li>\n
      25. Jason Grimm \u201902, Orbits of group endomorphisms.<\/li>\n
      26. Sydney Grossman ’18 and Lydia Narum ’18, Stable maximal subgroups of automorphism groups.<\/li>\n
      27. Aaron Gunderson \u201910, Cathryn Holm \u201911, Nathan Meyer \u201911, and Valerie Wilkinson \u201910, Exploration in orbits for finite groups.<\/li>\n
      28. Scott Harris \u201904 and Nicholas Maryns \u201904, A few results concerning automorphisms of semi-direct products.<\/li>\n
      29. Elizabeth Johnson \u201906, Johanna Speare \u201905, and Heather Wiste \u201905, Frattini automorphisms.<\/li>\n
      30. Jamie Kirkpatrick \u201999 and Eric Wilbur \u201900, On sliding number games.<\/li>\n
      31. Daniel Kohler \u201909, Automorphisms of some general metacyclic groups.<\/li>\n
      32. Rick Lassow \u201901, John McBride \u201901, and Paul Pearson \u201901, Integrals of groups.<\/li>\n
      33. Billy Laxen \u201907 and Jake Mahler \u201907, Lifts in automorphism groups.<\/li>\n
      34. T. N. Loome \u201905, William Mitchell \u201906, and Elizabeth White \u201905, Automorphisms of semi-direct products.<\/li>\n
      35. Erin Manlove \u201907, Matthew Moynihan \u201907, and Greg Wolken \u201907, Fibonacci length for direct products.<\/li>\n
      36. H. Jay Picconatto \u201900, Comparing the dynamics of f and |f|.<\/li>\n
      37. Reid Price \u201907, Perfect order subset groups within the symmetric group.<\/li>\n
      38. Jason Saccomano \u201905, Automorphisms of groups.<\/li>\n
      39. Jason Saccomano \u201905, Automorphic Cycles.<\/li>\n
      40. Niels Sveum \u201901, Leslie Taylor \u201901, and Ryan Thomas \u201901, The probability that two elements in a metacyclic p-group commute.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n

        Presentations and Invited Lectures<\/h3>\n
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        • Group Theory: Definition to Research in 15″, Provost’s Sabbatical Series, St. Olaf College, March 2017<\/li>\n
        • Automorphisms of Group Extensions, St. Olaf College research seminar, December 2016.<\/li>\n
        • Graduate School Information Session, Budapest Semesters in Mathematics, April 2016.<\/li>\n
        • When is the Whole Equal to the Sum of its Parts?, Budapest Semesters in Mathematics, March 2016.<\/li>\n
        • MAA Panel: Implementing the 2015 CUPM Curriculum Guide, MathFest, August 2015.<\/li>\n
        • Linear Algebra is Everywhere! Groups, Products, Automorphisms, and Matrices, Pi Mu Epsilon colloquium, St. Olaf College, November 2014.<\/li>\n
        • Research with Students under the Big Tent, keynote address at the spring meeting of the North Central Section of the MAA, April 2012.<\/li>\n
        • Orbits of endomorphisms. Carleton College, July 2007.<\/li>\n
        • On automorphisms of products of groups. Groups St. Andrews 2005.<\/li>\n
        • Using a \u201csingle story\u201d as an integrative thread in upper-level STEM courses: An adaptation of what works from the 10 \u00d7 10 Assembly \u201cConsidering Pedagogies that Serve to Strengthen Student Learning.\u201d Poster with Dr. Kim Kandl, Dallas, October 2004.<\/li>\n
        • Automorphisms of products of groups. University of Otago, New Zealand, June 2003.<\/li>\n
        • Automorphisms of groups. Macalester College, March 2002.<\/li>\n
        • Can undergraduates do research in mathematics? Carleton College, July 1999 and Augsburg College, April 1999.<\/li>\n
        • Mod p cohomology of groups given as cyclic-by-elementary abelian central extensions. AMS special session on the cohomology of groups, Central Section Meeting, Kansas, March 1998.<\/li>\n
        • \u00a0Space, dimension and perspective. Carleton College, July 1997.<\/li>\n
        • Classifying spaces and mod p cohomology of some central extensions. AMS special session on classifying spaces of groups, Central Section Meeting, Missouri, October 1996.<\/li>\n
        • Constructivism in Abstract Algebra. MAA special session on constructivism across the curriculum, Winter Joint Meetings, Orlando, January 1996.<\/li>\n
        • Classifying spaces and cohomology of some central extensions: A progress report. AMS special session on cohomology and representations of finite groups, Winter Joint Meetings, San Francisco, January 1995.<\/li>\n
        • Classifying spaces of group extensions. AMS special session on homotopy theory, Winter Joint Meetings, San Francisco, January 1995.<\/li>\n
        • The role of the Steinberg module in splitting BG. AMS special session on arithmetic groups and topology, Central Section Meeting, Oklahoma, October 1994.<\/li>\n
        • Stable splittings of classifying spaces of metacyclic p-groups. AWM post-doctoral workshop, Winter Joint Meetings, Cincinnati, January 1994.<\/li>\n
        • The role of the Steinberg module in splitting BG. CMS\/AMS special session on topological methods in group theory, Summer Joint Meetings, Vancouver, B.C., August 1993.<\/li>\n
        • Stable splittings of classifying spaces of groups. AWM graduate student workshop, Winter Joint Meetings, San Francisco, January 1991.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

          Consulting and Reviews<\/h3>\n
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          • Referee for PRIMUS.<\/li>\n
          • Referee for Communications in Algebra.<\/li>\n
          • External review of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at The College of New Jersey, with Dr. Michael Posner, April 2015.<\/li>\n
          • External review of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Colorado College, with Drs. Mark Claypool, Lisa Meeden, and Judy Walker, February 2015.<\/li>\n
          • External review of the Department of Mathematics at Furman University, with Dr. Michael Sheard, November 2014.<\/li>\n
          • External evaluator for tenure and promotion committees.<\/li>\n
          • External member of doctoral committee at Western Michigan University, 2011-2013.<\/li>\n
          • External review of the Department of Mathematics at the College of St. Benedict\u2019s\/St. John\u2019s University, with Dr. Frank Farris, April 2010.<\/li>\n
          • External review of the Department of Mathematics at Gettysburg College, with Dr. Paul Zeitz, April 2007.<\/li>\n
          • External review of the Department of Mathematics at Hamline University, with Dr. Matthew Richey, February 2005.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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            Conference and Workshop Participation<\/h3>\n
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            • Joint Mathematics Meetings, Atlanta, January 2017. Participated in MAA mini-course on using big data in linear algebra.<\/li>\n
            • Ischia Group Theory Conference, March 2016.<\/li>\n
            • MathFest, Washington, DC, August 2015.<\/li>\n
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              Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Antonio, January 2015. Participated in a WeBWork online homework system MAA sponsored mini-course.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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              Joint Mathematics Meetings, Baltimore, January 2014.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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              Groups St. Andrews 2013 in St. Andrews, Scotland, August 2013.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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              Joint Mathematics Meetings, Boston, January 2012.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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              Co-leader of MAA minicourse: Getting mathematics majors to think outside the book: Course activities that promote exploration, discovery, conjecture, and proof, Joint Mathematics Meetings, January 2011.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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              CURM Workshop, Brigham Young University, March 2008 and June 2007.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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              Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Diego, January 2008.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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              North Central Section of the Mathematical Association of America, April 2007.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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              Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Antonio, January 2006.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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              Quantitative Literacy Workshop, Carleton College, October 2005.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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              North Central Section of the Mathematical Association of America, April 2005.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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              Project Kaleidoscope National Assembly, Dallas, October 2004.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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              Joint Mathematics Meetings, Phoenix, January 2004.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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              Project Kaleidoscope 10 \u00d7 10 meeting, University of St. Thomas, October 2003.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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              AMS\/MAA Winter Joint Meetings, Baltimore, January 2003.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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              Project Kaleidoscope National Assembly, Baltimore, October 2002.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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              NSF Project InterMath Workshop, Carroll College, Montana, June 2001.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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              Workshop on Undergraduate Research, University of Arizona, February 2000.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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              CMS Winter Meetings, Kingston, Ontario, December 1998. Attended special session on homotopy theory.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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              AMS\/MAA Winter Joint Meetings, Baltimore, January 1998. Attended several special sessions in my research areas. Participated in an MAA mini-course on knot theory and its applications to science.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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              Pew Midstates Science and Mathematics Consortium Undergraduate Research Symposium in the Phys- ical Sciences and Mathematics, Chicago, November 1997.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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              Pew Midstates Science and Mathematics Consortium workshop for new faculty on grant writing, Grinnell College, October 1997.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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              AMS Summer Research Institute on group representations, cohomology, group actions and topology, Seattle, Summer 1996.<\/h4>\n
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              Service Activity<\/h1>\n

              College Committees<\/h3>\n
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                Faculty Life Committee. At large representative, 2009-2011.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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                Curriculum and Educational Policies Committee. NSM representative, 2004\u20132007.<\/h4>\n

                \u2013 Chair of CEPC, 2005\u20132007
                \n\u2013 Chair of Special Studies Subcommittee, 2004-2005<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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                Pandemic Taskforce, spring 2007\u2013spring 2008
                \n\u2013 Convener of the Academics Subgroup, spring 2007\u2013present<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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                Agenda Setting Team. CEPC representative, 2006-2007.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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                Curriculum Coordinating Committee. Convener and CEPC representative, 2004-2007.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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                Special Studies Subcommittee of CEPC. NSM representative, 2003-2004.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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                General Education Committee. NSM representative, 2001\u20132003.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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                Community Life and Diversity Advisory Team, 2000\u20132001.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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                Admissions, Retention and Financial Aid Committee. NSM representative, 1999\u20132001.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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                Honors Day Science Symposium. Together with Dr. Philip Gloor, conceived of, planned, and instituted the first science and mathematics student research symposium. Co-chair of the committee, 1998\u20132000.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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                Womens Studies Committee, 1997\u20132000.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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                College Appeals Board, 1997-1999.<\/h4>\n

                \u2013 Chair, 1998-1999
                \n\u2013 Vice-chair, 1997\u20131998<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n

                Departmental Committees<\/h3>\n