This month for our employee feature, we’re spotlighting one of our southerners, Whitney Curtis!
Hailing from Alabama, Whitney came to Kendall Hunt by way of a musical past and a life on stage! Currently serving as an Acquisitions Editor, she covers schools in Alabama, Mississippi and the Florida Panhandle region.
Olcay Akman is a professor of mathematics at Illinois State University in Normal, IL. He is the director of the intercollegiate Biomathematics Alliance, a consortium of universities collaborating and sharing resource in the pursuit of scholarships, teaching, and advanced research development. Olcay is currently Editor-in-Chief of the journal Letters in Biomathematics and a journal for undergraduate research, Spora. His research interests include computing-intensive modeling, using evolutionary computing or machine learning based methods.
James Peirce is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from U.C. Davis in 2004. As an applied mathematician, he loves incorporating problems from mathematical biology into his courses. His research focuses on host-parasite models in the field of Mathematical Ecology. He enjoys sampling host populations with his biology collaborators from sites within the Upper Mississippi River and the sandy beaches of California.
Timothy D. Comar is a professor of mathematics at Benedictine University in Lisle, IL. He earned his Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Michigan specializing in low dimensional topology.
Terry Nelson has taught journalism courses and advised publications for Indiana high school students for 35 years. Most recently, she is an instructor of journalism at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Indiana, teaching media writing, reporting and investigative journalism classes.
Walking behind some students the other day I overheard a familiar refrain, “I am so stressed out! I have two papers due this week, and I have to work”. Her companion replied with “Don’t I know it! I help take care of my Grandmother and have a project and two exams coming up”.
Anthony Pratcher II is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Race and Ethnicity at Brown University. He has a joint appointment at the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America and the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. He earned his Ph. D. in from the History Department at the University of Pennsylvania in Summer 2017. He previously taught at Arizona State University and Estrella Mountain Community College.
Chari Leader Kelley's career is focused upon improving access to and opportunities for success in post-secondary education for historically under-served and adult students. From her dissertation research focusing on adult learner perceptions of academic quality pre- and post-matriculation to her work as a lead consultant at the Institute for Higher Education Policy in the transfer, articulation, and access sector; Dr. Leader Kelley is a passionate advocate for creating degree pathways.