Selected Service in University Governance and Outreach
Department service
Department Chair, 9/2009-7/2013
Department Chair, 7/1998 –7/2001
Interim Department Chair, 8/1997 – 6/1998
Graduate Committee, member, 6/2018-5/2020
Promotion, Tenure and Evaluation Committee, member, 5/2007-8/2009, chair, 7/2014-6/2015, member, 5/2016-7/2017
Calculus Improvement Committee, chair, 8/2015 – 11/2017
STTR Committee, member, 11/2006-6/2013
Mathematics Education Faculty Search Committee, member, 9/2006-6/2007
Policy Review Committee, chair, 2005-2014
Search Committee, chair, 5/2004-6/2006, 9/2013-5/2014, member, 3/2018-8/2018, chair, 8/2021-5/2022
Program Review Committee, chair, 5/2003-12/2004
Assessment of Learning Committee, chair, 9/2001-5/2003
Peer Evaluation of Teaching Committee, chair, 9/2001-5/2002
Sonya Kovalevsky Day, co-organizer, 9/2001-2018
College service
CAS PTE Committee, chair, 4/2024-Present
CSM PTE Committee, member, 6/2023-3/2024
Assistant Dean for Student Success Search Committee, member, 2021
CSM board of Advisors Taskforce, member, 2020
CSM Assistant Dean for Student Success Search Committee, member, 2020-2021
Dean Evaluation Committee, member, 2015-2016
Chair Review Committee, 2014, chair, 2015-2016
College Realignment Committee, member, 2016
Interim Director, Center for Science and Mathematics Education, 8/2013-6/2014
Governor’s School Director Search Committee, chair, 8/2013-6/2014
Chairs Council, member, 8/1997-6/2001, 8/2005-5/2007, 9/2009-9/2011
Dean’s Advisory Board, 9/2006-5/2007
Panel reviewer for AES Small Grant Program, member,
2004-2006
University service
Faculty Senate Academic Integrity Committee, member, 6/1995-10/1999, 8/2002-5/2004, 9/2006-2009, chair/co-chair, 2020-Present
Faculty Senate Committee on Improving Quality of Academic Operations, chair, 4/2013-Present
Phase-II Inquiry Committee, chair, 2021
NDSU Strategic Planning Committee, member, 2019-2020
NSF ND-EPSCoR Track-2 Proposals, panel reviewer, 2019
CSM Dean Search Committee, member, 2019
EPSCoR Bioinformatics Seed Grant Program, panel reviewer, 4/2017 – 8/2017
Provost’s Ad Hoc Committee on Local Funds, chair, 3/2012-4/2013
Center for Sci. & Math Ed. Advisory Committee, member, 10/2003-2013
Advocate for NDSU-FORWARD, 1/2009-12/2011
Commission on the Status of Women Faculty, member, 1/2009-12/2011
University Senate Executive Committee, member, 5/2008-5/2009
University Senate, President, 5/2008-5/2009
University Senate, President-elect, 5/2007-5/2008
University Senate, member, 8/2004-2009
Program Review Committee, member, 5/2008-5/2009
University Assessment Committee, member, 5/2008-5/2009
Policy Coordination Committee, member, 5/2007-5/2008
University Senate Executive Committee, chair, 5/2008-5/2009
University Senate Executive Committee, member, 8/2005-5/2008
ND EPSCoR Steering Committee, member, 10/2002-5/2004
University Senate Library Committee, member, 10/2001-5/2004
Dean of College of S&M Search Committee, member, 11/2001-5/2002
Dean of Graduate Studies Search Committee, member, 1999-2000
Faculty Development Committee, member, 10/1996-6/1999
Outreach Activities
· Advisor to NDSU Turkish-American Student Association (2002-2003).
· Outreach through CoMSTeP and GraSUS program activities.
· Organized Sonya Kovalevski Mathematics Day, 2001; co-organizer, 2002-2018.
· NDUS Common Course State Standards Taskforce; NDSU representative at the NDUS Mathematics and Statistics Discipline Group.
· ND-SE Regional Science Fair, co-organizer, March 18, 2014
· ND State Science Olympiad, co-organizer, April 26, 2014
· ND Undergrad Math Conference at Minot State University, keynote speaker, Minot, ND, 2014 and 2015
· Co-organizer of MathFair in Longfellow Elementary School, Fargo, 2002-2005; organizer 2005-2008
· Numerous presentations for Sonya Kovalevsky Day participants, Math Club, Governor School students, for Kwannis Club (Fargo Chapter) members, 4H students
· Participated in ND-EPSCoR functions (Joint ND-SD EPSCoR meetings, Science Bound and AURA panels)
· International Etiquette Panel, member, 1997, 1998, and 1999
· Served as a judge in the ND and/or Regional Science Fairs, 1987-1991 and 1993-1996.
Other scholarly activities
·
Organizer of the NSF-CBMS Conference on Ergodic Theory and Combinatorial Number Theory
in Fargo, ND, Summer 1991
· Organizer of the Special Session in Ergodic Theory in Fargo, ND, at the 869th Regional Meeting of the American Mathematical Society in October 1991
· Co-organizer of the Conference on Reforming Undergraduate Science and Mathematics Education, May 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, and 1998, Bismarck, ND; each year more than 70 faculty from various ND higher education institutions participated.
· Participant in MAA-SAUM activities on developing model assessment programs for mathematics departments
· Advisory Committee, Mathematics Genealogy Project, member, 2014-2016
· Editorial Board member, Mathematical Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences
· Refereeing for numerous professional mathematics journals
· Reviewer for AMS Mathematical Reviews and Zentralblatt MATH
· Reviewer for Western Regional Graduate Program, 1998
· Reviewer for NSF-GK12 Program 2001, 2002
· Reviewer for NSF-MSP Program 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, and 2010
· Reviewer for NSF-RET Program, 2003
· Proposal Reviewer for Israeli Science Foundation, Fall 2012
· Research Award Evaluator, ODTU-M. Parlar Education and Research Foundation, Türkiye, November 2019
· External Reviewer for faculty PTE, The University of Texas-Pan American, 2013; Indiana University South Bend, 2015
· CSM Women’s Networking Lunch/Panel Discussion, panelist, Oct 28, 2015
Last updated: July 20, 2024