Employment History:

Chair of Mathematics Department, Baker University, 1997-2002.

Chair of Mathematics Department, LSUS-S, 1996-96.

Responsible for administration of this 19-member department. Duties included hiring of 11 new staff members and writing of 2 government-sponsored grants with awards of $300,000; formulating department policy and management of academic course loads. Meet periodically with dean and other chairs. Organized and led projects resulting from grants awards. Research in field-testing of a bioremediation model applicable to problems such as hydrocarbon contamination in soil.

Professor of mathematics, Ripon College, Ripon, WI, 1986-95; 1996-97.

Hired as Associate Professor; granted tenure in 1990 and promoted to Professor in 1991. Appointed Chair of Department of Math and Computer Science, 1994-95. Duties included teaching undergraduate courses in mathematics and computer science. Elected to Faculty Development Committee, 1989-92; participated in the revision of the research award granting process for all departments in the college. Served on the Board of Trustees Development Committee 1990-92; periodically reviewed finances and endowment of college. Wrote successful grant applications and raised funds to staff and equip educational projects (total value of equipment donations: $45,000). Used grant award to conduct several professional workshops in calculus reform (techniques of improving math instruction), and on the recruitment of under-represented minorities at universities. As an application of chaos theory, conducted research on data compression on climatic and atmospheric data. Trained and led a team of students in mathematical-modeling competitions; obtained corporate sponsorship for a project promoting student consultancies in business applications of mathematical modeling, i.e. optimization problems. Edited and partially wrote a recently published mathematics sourcebook, Calculus Problems for a New Century.

Associate Professor, University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, 1997-86.

Initially hired as assistant professor, promoted to associate professor in 1983. Taught applied mathematics and computer science. Research and publication during this time concentrated on mathematical modeling of oceanographic and terrestrial phenomena with regard specifically to oil spill dynamics and the movement of sand dunes.

Associate Professor, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, 1966-76.

Promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1971. Duties included teaching undergraduate courses in mathematics and graduate courses in algebraic topology, functions of complex variables, and sheaf theory. Directed 3 M.A. theses in topology-geometry.

Education:

1953-57: Los Alamos High School Valedictorian and twice class president.

1957-61: Pomona College, Claremont, CA, B.A. Graduated Magna cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa.

1961-65: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. M.A. (1963), Ph.D. (1965) Supported by: Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (1961-62); NRC (Canada) Scholarship (1962-64).

List of publications, conferences organized, etc. furnished upon request.