MICHAEL MARTIN

2007.12.15 | NEWS, UPDATES, ACTIVITIES ::.:.:.

Some initiatives/responsibilities include:

• President, JCCC Faculty Association

• Academic Chair, Innovative Pedagogy Strategies, American Mathematical Association for Two-Year Colleges

• Continuing work under a National Science Foundation Grant (NSF DUE #0535924) entitled Mathematical Methods for Biology & Medicine.  The work includes developing a new course, Mathematical Methods for Biology & Medicine, to be offered in Fall '08 in both hybrid and online delivery.  The grant also extends materials and offerings for the existing Calculus for Biology & Medicine course that JCCC currently offers.  I am involved with another NSF grant with Harvey Mudd College to revive the CODEE resources and provide a related infrastructure to support contemporary differential equations instruction.  This grant is entitled Online Resources to Improve the Teaching and Learning of Differential Equations:  Encouraging the Widespread Use of Modeling and Computing (NSF DUE #0717490).  A third grant, which has not been funded yet, extends the use of computation across the curriculum and develops a cyber infrastructure to do so.  The proposed grant is entitled Ubiquotous Computing for Quantitative Literacy in Scholarship, Reseach, and Learning (UBICOM) (NSF DRL #0753411).
  

• Offering the Calculus for Biology & Medicine course.  Working on a modification of this curriculum for a proposed high school academy to be offered at JCCC.
  

• Developing web tools and modules for mathematical biology topics, particularly as they relate to biology, biotechnology, chemistry, & medicine.  The idea that has emerged is a modular learning community hosted/facilitated through technology.

• Integrating the use of the WeBWorK homework system in my mathematics courses.
  

• Raising five boys and supporting my family.

    NOTE TO FAMILY:  List not necessarily in order of priority.


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