MICHAEL MARTIN

2008.9.15 | NEWS, UPDATES, ACTIVITIES ::.:.:.

Some recent/upcoming initiatives/responsibilities include:

• President, JCCC Faculty Association

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

• Co-Facilitator, Implementing Best Practices in Courses Below Calculus, Traveling Workshop for American Mathematical Association for Two-Year Colleges, Los Angeles, CA in 2008
  

• Co-Organizer, Biocalculus:  Designing Calculus Courses for Life Science Majors, Mathematical Association of America’s PRofessional Enhancement Program (PREP), Chicago, IL in 2008 & proposed St Louis, MO in 2009.

• Contributor, Dynamical Systems in Physiological Modeling, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, West Lafayette, IN
  

• Contributor, MathDL Workshop for the NSDL (National Science Digital Library), The Carriage House, Mathematical Association of America, Washington, DC
  

• Principal Investigator, Mathematical Methods for Biology & Medicine (NSF DUE #0535924).  The work includes developing a new course, Mathematical Methods for Biology & Medicine.  The grant also extends materials and offerings for the existing Calculus for Biology & Medicine course that JCCC currently offers. * Inolved as a contributor with an NSF grant to revive the CODEE resources and provide a related infrastructure to support contemporary differential equations instruction.  This grant, with principal investigators at Harvey Mudd College, is entitled Online Resources to Improve the Teaching and Learning of Differential Equations:  Encouraging the Widespread Use of Modeling and Computing (NSF DUE #0717490). *** Proposing principal investigator for a third grant, which received positive reviews but was ultimately denied, 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).  This grant proposal is being considered for revision and then submitting to an alternate solicitation in January 2008.

• Developing web tools and modules for mathematical biology topics, particularly as they relate to biology, biotechnology, chemistry, physiology, & 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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              11.07   Want to meet the best dog known to man?  Simpson

               What i did this past summer (08)  ...  no really.

    tAG, You are it !