Faculty Scholarly Activities
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The faculty members of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science are involved in many scholarly activities resulting in refereed journal publications, refereed conference proceedings publications, books published, grant awards, workshops, presentations at conferences or other institutions, and other publications. The faculty are also very interested in working with students on internship, honors and other research projects. Below we list some of the products of the scholarly activities of Department of Mathematics and Computer Science faculty. For more details regarding a particular faculty member's scholarly interests, please see their individual webpage.
Fink, A. D. D. and Lunsford, M. L., "Bridging the Divides: Using a Collaborative Honors Research Experience to Link Academic Learning to Civic Issues," Honors in Practice, National Collegiate Honors Council, Volume 5, 2009, pages 97-113.
Graham, J., "Comparing Parallel Programming Models," Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 23 , Issue 6 (June 2008), Papers of the Nineteenth Annual CCSC South Central Conference Pages 65-71, 2008 ISSN:1937-4771.
Lunsford, M. L., Pendergrass, M., Poplin, P., and Shoenthal, D., "The Naive Chain Rule," in Classroom Capsules of The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 39, No. 2, 2008, p 142 - 145.
Lunsford, M. L., Rowell, G. H., and Goodson-Espy, T. "Assessment of Student Understanding of the Central Limit Theorem," CHANCE Magazine, Vol. 21, No 1, 2008, p 27-32.
Burago, D., Ivanov, S., Shoenthal, D., "Two counterexamples in low-dimensional length geometry," St. Petersburg Mathematics Journal, 19 (2008), 33-43.
Graham, J., "Integration of Parallel Programming into Traditional Computer Science Curricula," Inroads, a Journal of the ACM concerning Special aspects of Computer Science Education, December, 2007, Volume 39, Number 4.
Lunsford, M. L., Rowell, G. H., and Goodson-Espy, T. (2006), "Classroom Research: Assessment of Student Understanding of Sampling Distributions of Means and the Central Limit Theorem in Post-Calculus Probability and Statistics Courses," Journal of Statistics Education [On line] 14(3). www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v14n3/lunsford.html
May, R., Abrams, W., "A Generalization of the Schur Algebra to k[tg]" Journal of Algebra, 295 (2006), 524-542.
Abrams, W., May, R., "Maximal Submodules for W x A," Journal of Algebra, 242 (2001), 188-197.
Refereed Conference Proceedings
Books (or Chapters in Books) Published
Emerson-Stonnell, Sharon and Nelson, Gary, Number Systems, Outskirts Press, 2007.
Emerson-Stonnell, Sharon and Nelson, Gary, Functions, Probability, and Statistics, Outskirts Press, 2006.
Burago, Yu. D. and Shoenthal, David, “Metric Geometry,” in New Analytic and Geometric Methods in Inverse Problems (eds. K. Bingham, Y. Kurylev, E. Somersalo), Springer-Verlag, 2004.
Emerson-Stonnell, Sharon, Longwood Co-PI on Virginia Commonwealth University’s grant Researching the Expansion of K-5 Mathematics Specialist Program into Rural School Systems funded by the National Science Foundation for $4,714,277 over a five year period starting Fall 2009. The grant will allow Longwood to modify our Mathematics Specialist program so that it can be offered in a blended environment (combination of distance learning and in-person sessions) and devise and implement support programs for Specialists working in remote environments where they might not have the support of in-system Mathematics Supervisors and the support of other coaches within their school system. In addition, we will undertake research determining the impact of Mathematics Specialists/coaches utilizing 21 pairs of schools in a treatment control experiment.
Emerson-Stonnell, Sharon and Smith, Wendy, Co-Principal Investigators on the grant Algebra Functions and Data Analysis (AFDA) for Southside Virginia, a Mathematics and Science Partnership grant, was funded by the Virginia Department of Education for $125,000. The grant will allow Longwood mathematics and mathematics education faculty to work with 40 high school mathematics teachers in Southside Virginia in 2009-2010.
Nelson, Rebecca & Creath, Elizabeth, Supporting the Geometric Learning of Future K-8 Teachers, at the annual meeting of the Virginia Council of Teachers of Mathematics (VCTM), April 13-14, 2009.
Shoenthal, David, A Geometric Complexity Problem in a Length Space, at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, Washington, DC, Jan. 8, 2009.
Emerson-Stonnell, Sharon, and Markey, Robert, Coordinating Tutoring with the Calculus I Classroom, at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, Washington, DC, Jan. 8, 2009.
Hageman Smith, Wendy, A Constructivist Theory of Teaching Mathematics: from concept to context, at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, Washington, DC, Jan. 7, 2009.
Lunsford, M. Leigh and Poplin*, Phillip, Basic Mathematical Skills and Success in Introductory Level Statistics, at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, Washington, DC, Jan. 6, 2009, *presenter.
Poplin, Phillip, A Hole Through a Cube, Contributed Paper Session, Fall 2008 MD-DC-VA MAA Section Meeting, Nov. 8, 2008.
Emerson-Stonnell, Sharon, Using Geometry to "See" the Algebra, 2008 PCTM - LU Fall Conference, October, 2008.
Emerson-Stonnell, Sharon, What Good Are Box-and-Whisker Plots?, 2008 PCTM - LU Fall Conference, October, 2008.
Lewis, Virginia, Around and Inside: Developing the Concepts of Perimeter, Area, and Circumference, 2008 PCTM - LU Fall Conference, October, 2008.
Timmerman, Maria, Problem-Based Tasks: The Role of Context in Developing Proportional Reasoning, 2008 PCTM - LU Fall Conference, October, 2008.
Marmorstein, Robert M., Nifty Idea: Teaching Networking Concepts Using Active Learning, CCSC Eastern Regional Conference, Frederick, MD, October 11, 2008
Webber, Robert P., Using Spreadsheets to Help Students Think Recursively, Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Diego, CA, January 6, 2008.
Lunsford*, M. Leigh and Alvarez, Consuelo, Creating and Analyzing cDNA Microarrays: Building Collaborative Undergraduate Research Projects, MathFest 2007, San Jose, CA, August 5, 2007. *presenter
Nelson, Rebecca, Elementary Pre-Service Students Thoughts about Teaching & Learning Mathematics, presented at the Annual Conference of RCML, Cleveland, Ohio, March 2007.
Graham, John, Science vs. Democracy: Could Watson and Crick Get a Grant? Post-Industrial Democracy Conference Panel, Global Democracy Conference, Hampden-Sydney College, January 27, 2007.
Abrams*, William P. and Peden, Jeffery, Teaching to the Test (or how I stopped worrying and learned to love the Major Field Achievement Test.), at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans, LA, Jan. 8, 2007. *presenter.
Hall, J. A., I Can Prove It!, at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans, LA, Jan. 7, 2007.
Emerson-Stonnell, Sharon S., Using Groups and Peer Reviews in a Proof Course, at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans, LA, Jan. 6, 2007.
Lewis, Virginia, Undergraduate Calculus Students' Definitions and Images of Function, invited speaker for the Longwood University Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Colloquium Series, 31 October, 2006.
Nelson, Rebecca, Analyzing Data to Fit Linear Functions, presented at the Fall meeting of the PCTM, Farmville, Virginia, October 2006.
Shoenthal, David, Naïve Calculus: The Chain Rule, Contributed Paper Session, MAA Section Meeting., April 2006.
Poplin, Phillip, Naïve Calculus: The Product Rule, Contributed Paper Session, MAA Section Meeting., April 2006.
Shoenthal, David, Defining Length, Departmental Colloquium, University of Mary Washington, October 2005.
Lunsford, M. Leigh, Averaging Reduces Error, invited speaker for the High Point University Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Colloquium, March 16, 2005.
Poplin, Phillip, Math Is Fun!, invited speaker for the Longwood University Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Colloquium Series, 23 September, 2004
Lunsford, M. L., Marano, L. E., "PTP 'Women in Mathematics Delegation' Visits China," Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, Vol. 36, No. 5, Sept.-Oct. 2006, pp. 17-19.