2002 MAA-Iowa Nominating Committee Report

The 2002 MAA-Iowa Nominating Committee (David Oakland, Ruth Berger, and Doug Swan) has submitted the following nominations.  Elections will be held at the business meeting at Morningside College on Saturday, April 6, 2002.

Chair Elect:  

Joel Haack has been employed at the University of Northern Iowa since 1991, first as department head for 9 years, then as interim dean, and now as (blessedly) a faculty member.  His degrees (the usual ones in Mathematics and an MA in Statistics) are from the University of Iowa, with his thesis in non-commutative ring theory.  His position previous to that at UNI was at Oklahoma State University, where his scholarly interests expanded to include curriculum development and the relationships between mathematics and the humanities.  He presently serves as an Associate Editor of the Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal.

Keith Stoyan joined MAA in the late 60's while studying at Caltech, where he received his Ph. D. in 1971.  He held a postdoctoral position at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, visiting positions in Paderborn, Germany, and Trondheim, Norway, and joined the U of Iowa faculty in 1973.  His research has centered on applications of Abraham Robinson's theory of infinitesimals in complex variables, functional analysis, mathematical economics, and probability.  He wrote two monographs on infinitesimal analysis. 

Since the 70's he has been developing computer materials for various undergraduate courses, including Calculus Wiz for the traditional course.  Through the 80's Keith's summer hobby was running workshops for high school teachers on geometry and vector graphics for Apple and Atari computers.  He spent most of the last decade in reform school, that's Calculus Reform, and wrote the materials Calculus: The Language of Change with both Mathematica and Maple software.  His current effort is an interactive text for multivariable calculus  (all featured on his website above.) 

Keith has a grown daughter and lives in the free part of Johnson County where he and his wife raise Labrador retrievers and watch the encroaching real estate development.

Keith supports the nomination of his friend  Joel Haack enthusiastically, but is also willing to serve if it's Iowa's turn.  One of the nice things about the Spring MAA meetings is the opportunity to visit campuses around the State.

Secretary-Treasurer:

Dan Alexander received a PhD in Mathematics from Boston University in 1992, and has been teaching at Drake since the Fall of 1993. His mathematical research interests involve the history of mathematics. In the past few years he has been heavily involved with Drake's online summer program, and is currently also serving as Drake's Director of Web-Assisted Curriculum.

Wendy Weber received her doctorate in mathematics from the University of Kentucky in 1999 in convex geometry under the direction of Carl W. Lee.  Since she graduated she has been a Project NExT fellow (1999-2000) and an assistant professor of mathematics at Central College in Pella, Iowa.  Her current interests include the mathematical education of prospective teachers and planning campus wide activities for Mathematics Awareness Month.