THREE MENTORING PROGRAMS IN MATHEMATICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON AND THEIR LOCAL AND BROADER IMPACTS
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Minneapolis, MN
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August 23, 2022
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June 26, 2022
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June 29, 2022
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37
- DOI
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10.18260/1-2--41905
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https://peer.asee.org/41905
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201
Paper Authors
Tuncay Aktosun The University of Texas at Arlington
Dr. Aktosun is a professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Arlington. His research area is applied mathematics and differential equations with research interests in scattering and spectral theory, inverse problems, wave propagation, and integrable evolution equations. He is involved in various mentoring and scholarship programs benefiting students. He has been the GAANN Fellowship Director in his department since 2006, the NSF S-STEM Scholarship Director in his department since 2008, and he also acts as the Project Director for the NSF Bridge Program in his department. In the past he served as the Graduate Director and as the Undergraduate Director in his department, and he directed the NSF-LSAMP program on his campus during 2009-2014 and also directed the NSF-LSAMP Bridge-to-Doctorate program on his campus during 2010-2013.
Yolanda Parker
Jianzhong Su The University of Texas at Arlington
Dr. Jianzhong Su is professor and chair of Mathematics at the Department of Mathematics, University of
Texas at Arlington (UTA). He received his Ph.D. in 1990 from University of Minnesota under Professor
Hans Weinberger and he has been in higher education for over 30 years. He is an applied mathematician
with research areas in partial differential equations and dynamical systems, with a particular interest in
problems from computational neuroscience. He is an experienced researcher, educator, and administrator.
He has served as PI/co-PI on over $10 million federal research, education and training funding from
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Education, US Department
of Agriculture and other agencies, published over 70 peer-reviewed journal papers and been invited to
over 70 seminars and conferences, and advised over 10 math students who attained their Ph.D. degree.
He is very involved student mentoring of undergraduate students and high school students. He has been
leading the development of the UTA learning communities and tutoring program for undergraduate and
graduate students and has provided space and travel funds to enhance the UTA model. He is an active
member of Gulf States Math Alliance and serves on its board of directors and co-organized the annual
Gulf States Math Alliance conference in 2017-2021. Currently he is the PI on an NSF Math bridge to
doctorate program at UTA. He also serves as a UTA site-PI on a large USDA-HSI collaboration project
on smart agriculture data and mentoring students to research in data science and to pursue agricultural
related career.
Abstract
We describe the three mentoring programs in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Texas at Arlington, and we provide some data to present their local and broader impacts. The first of these three programs is the S-STEM program funded by the NSF aiming to provide undergraduate mathematics majors with scholarships and mentoring, and it has been running in our department since 2008. The second is the GAANN program supported by the US Education Department aiming to provide doctoral students with fellowships and mentoring, and it has run during 2006-2021. The third is the Bridge-to-Math-Doctorate program supported by the NSF aiming to provide scholarship and mentoring for students to help them transition to doctoral studies, and it has been running in our department since 2016. We elaborate on our vision and strategy in running these programs and on the improvements we have implemented. We also provide some data to demonstrate how the Covid-19 pandemic has been affecting our undergraduate mathematics majors in our NSF S-STEM program.
Aktosun, T., & Parker, Y., & Su, J. (2022, August), THREE MENTORING PROGRAMS IN MATHEMATICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON AND THEIR LOCAL AND BROADER IMPACTS Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--41905
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