Refereed Journal Publications

• Shilling-Traina, Leah N. and Stylianides, G.J., "Impacting prospective teachers’ beliefs about mathematics," ZDM, Volume 45, Issue 3 (May 2013), 393-407.
• Shilling-Traina, L.N., "Making the "impossible" possible in the classroom: Cultivating persistence in problem-solving," Virginia Mathematics Teacher, Vol. 39, No. 1 (Winter 2012), 14-16.
• Donnelly, Suzanne, Fink, Alix, Fink, Mark, Lunsford, M. Leigh, Rhoten, Melissa, and Scheitlin, Kelsey, "Full Immersion: The Chesapeake Bay Watershed as an Environment for Learning Science in a Civic Context," Science Education and Civic Engagement, Volume 4, Issue 2 (Summer 2012), p. 34-41.
• Webber, Robert, "Using Spreadsheets to Help Students Think Recursively," PRIMUS, Volume 22, Issue 5 (2012), 365-372.
• Smith, Wendy Hageman, "Developing Mathematical Reasoning Through Collaborative Discovery," Virginia Mathematics Teacher, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Spring 2012), 4-7.
• Abrams, William P. and Lunsford, M. Leigh, "Mathematical Vignettes in a University-Controlled Freshman Seminar, or 'Oh - That's Cool!'," PRIMUS, Volume 21, Issue 3 (2011), 274-282.
• May, Robert D., "Representations of certain generalized Schur algebras," Journal of Algebra, 333 (2011) 180-201.
• Lunsford, M. L. and Poplin, P., "From Research to Practice: Basic Mathematics Skills and Success in Introductory Statistics," Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 19, Number 1 (2011).
• Lunsford, M. L.  and Fink, A. D. D., "Water Taste Test Data," in the Datasets and Stories section of the Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 18, Number 1 (2010).
• Lewis, Virginia Vimpeny, "Pascal and Fermat Divide the Stakes," CHANCE Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 4 (2009), 51-54.
• 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), 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), 27-32.
• Burago, D., Ivanov, S., Shoenthal, D., "Two counterexamples in low-dimensional length geometry," St. Petersburg Mathematics Journal, 19 (2008), 33-43.

Refereed Conference Proceedings and Posters

• Marmorstein, Robert, "Open Source Contribution As An Effective Software Engineering Class Project." Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science, June 27-29 2011, pp. 268--272.
• Pendergrass, M. and Lunsford, M. L., "Bayesian Inference Using Data from a Real Galton Board," a Peer-Reviewed Contributed Beyond Poster at the United States Conference on Teaching Statistics, May 19-21, 2011.
• Marmorstein, Robert and Kearns, Phil, "Assisted Firewall Policy Repair Using Examples and History." Proceedings of the 21st Large Installation and Systems Administration Conference, November 11-16, 2007, pp. 27--37.

Grant Awards

• Emerson-Stonnell, Sharon, Principal Investigator on the grant Teaching the 2009 Mathematics SOL in Grades 3-5 Across Southern Virginia, a Mathematics and Science Partnership grant.  Funded by the Virginia Department of Education for $239,804. The grant will allow Longwood mathematics education faculty and Longwood mathematics specialist graduates to work with 100 mathematics teachers in grades 3-5 throughout Southern Virginia in 2012-2013.
• Emerson-Stonnell, Sharon, Principal Investigator on the grant Teaching the 2009 K-3 Mathematics SOL in Southern Virginia, a Mathematics and Science Partnership grant.  Funded by the Virginia Department of Education for $133,177. The grant will allow Longwood mathematics education faculty to work with 40 mathematics teachers in grades K-3 throughout Southern Virginia in 2010-2011.
• Emerson-Stonnell, Sharon, Longwood Principal Investigator. The Institute for Advanced Learning and Researchreceived funding forthe grant Teaching the 2009 Grades 7-8 Mathematics SOL in Southern Virginia, a Mathematics and Science Partnership grant, funded by the Virginia Department of Education. The grant will allow Longwood mathematics education faculty to work with 24 mathematics teachers in grades 7-8 throughout Southern Virginia in 2010-2011.
• Emerson-Stonnell, Sharon, Longwood Principal Investigator. Institute for Teaching through Technology and Innovative Practices received funding forthe grant Teaching the 2009 Grades 4-6 Mathematics SOL in Southern Virginia, a Mathematics and Science Partnership grant, funded by the Virginia Department of Education. The grant will allow Longwood mathematics education faculty to work with 36 mathematics teachers in grades 4-6 throughout Southern Virginia in 2010-2011.
• Emerson-Stonnell, Sharon, Longwood Co-PI on University of Virginia's grant The Virginia Algebra Project, a Mathematics and Science Partnership grant, funded by the Virginia Department of Education from 2008 - 2010. The grant will allow the creation of graduate mathematics courses designed for middle school teachers seeking the Algebra I endorsement. The grant will also allow Longwood mathematics and mathematics education faculty to work with teachers seeking the Algebra I license in 2009-2010.
• 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.