Third Annual TEAM-Math Partnership Conference
Biographical Sketches of Keynote Speakers

Dr. Patricia Campbell is associate professor of mathematics education at the University of Maryland. Her research addresses issues spanning the teaching and learning of elementary mathematics, professional development, instructional change, and systemic reform. She is a principal investigator at the NSF-funded Mid-Atlantic Center for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, studying the relationship between teachers’ knowledge and their students’ mathematics achievement. In a separate NSF project, Dr. Campbell is investigating the impact of elementary mathematics specialists. She received the Urban Impact Award from The Council of Great City Schools as well as the University of Maryland Board of Regents Faculty Award for Excellence in Public Service for her work with the Baltimore Public School System. She has been a member of the board of directors of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and the National Research Council’s Mathematical Sciences Education Board.
 
Dr. William A. Massey is the Edwin S. Wilsey Professor in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, a member of the Applied and Computational Mathematics Program, and an associate member of the Department of Mathematics at Princeton University. From 1981 until 2001, he was a member of technical staff in the Mathematical Sciences Research Center at Bell Laboratories. His research interests include dynamical queuing systems, applied probability, and the operations of communication services and systems. Dr. Massey also holds a patent on the efficient design of staffing schedules for call centers.
He is a founder of the Conference for African American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences, now in its twelfth year. In 2005, the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education listed him as one of the most cited Black Mathematicians in the country. In 2006, he was awarded the Blackwell-Tapia prize, which recognizes a mathematical scientist who has contributed significantly to research in their field of mathematical expertise, has served as a role model for mathematical scientists and students from under-represented minority groups, and has contributed to addressing the problem of the under-representation of minorities in mathematics. His undergraduate degree is in Mathematics from Princeton University in 1977 (Summa Cum Laude, Sigma Xi and Phi Beta Kappa). After graduation, he received a Bell Labs Cooperative Research Fellowship for minorities, which funded the training for his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Stanford University in 1981.
 

Dr. Pat Wilson is Professor of Mathematics Education at the University of Georgia where she works with both prospective and practicing teachers developing mathematical knowledge for teaching at the secondary level. Her research is related to using practice to inform the teaching of mathematics. She is currently a director of the Center for Proficiency in Teaching Mathematics (CPTM), which is a collaborative effort with the University of Michigan supported by the National Science Foundation. The Center aims to strengthen the system of professional education that supports teachers of mathematics throughout their careers. In particular the Center is interested in the professional education of mathematicians, mathematics educators, and those who teach mathematics to teachers. 

 

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