Welcome to my mathematics homepage! I have been
teaching mathematics and science for the last twenty-eight
years, including a stint in the Peace Corps.
Of course, for six of those years I taught as a Mathematics graduate student at the
University of Oregon
in
Eugene. I
received my B.A. in Mathematics and English Literature from
Lewis
& Clark College, and my M.S. and Ph.D. in mathematics
from the University of Oregon.
My current research interests are in noncommutative ring theory
and algebraic geometry (see my current
CV). (My Ph.D.
advisor was Brad Shelton.) If you are interested you can
read a bit about my research and obtain recent preprints of my
publications on my
research
page. I have interest in student research in my own
fields as a well as combinatorial game theory and computational
algebra.
I am currently an Associate Professor and Chair of Mathematics
at the University of Portland. This semester, I am teaching a
section of PreCalculus (MTH 112) and two sections of Discrete
Structures (MTH 345). In past years, I have taught a
3-week intensive graduate-level course in Category Theory at the
African Institute for Mathematics Sciences [AIMS] campus in
Ghana.