Service & Awards
Currently
I serve on the Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS) as the representative for the Mathematics Department. In addition to just being a senator, I also am on the Executive Committee as Treasurer. This means I chair the finance committee, approve yearly budgets, and handle acquisition requests. However, it also means I am not a voting member of the senate. If you would like to talk about anything graduate student related, or raise any concerns you might have, please feel free to e-mail me or stop by my office.
My position as GPSS senator is also that of an ad-hoc member of MathGSO, the Mathematics Graduate Student Organization. Our aim is to benefit the experience of the graduate students in the department. We do things like hold socials, facilitate the peer mentor program, run Co-Edge (a program aimed at incoming graduate students), host the weekly department tea, and much more.
In spring of 2023, I created and coordinated the MathGSO Graduate Student Symposium, the first symposium that focuses solely on graduate students from our department and their research. This year I will no longer be a part of the official planning committee, but I am staying on in an advisory role as a consultant.
In December of 2022, the Graduate Student Seminar was born through the combined efforts of myself, Enrique Gomez-Leos, and Mitchell Ashburn. The idea of our seminar sprouted from another seminar in our department, called the Junior Analysis Seminar. The purpose of this seminar is to give a platform for graduate students in the Mathematics Department to give expository or research talks to an audience comprised solely of peers (other students). In addition to being a great place to practice giving math talks, the seminar encourages collaboration and fosters enthusiasm amongst fellow students of math.
Service
2023 - | Founder and organizer Graduate Student Seminar
2023 - | Founder and organizer MathGSO Graduate Student Symposium
2023 - 2024 | Executive Officer Graduate and Professional Student Senate (Treasurer)
Committee Chair Graduate and Professional Student Senate Finance Committee
Committee Member Special Student Fees and Tuition Committee (SSFTC)
2022 - 2023 | Senator Graduate and Professional Student Senate (Department of Mathematics)
Committee Member Graduate and Professional Student Senate Finance Committee
2021 - 2022 | Organizer Junior Analysis Seminar
2019 - 2020 | President UWL Mathematics & Statistics Club (Member 2018 - 2020)
2019 - 2020 | Councilor UWL CASSH Dean's Advisory Council
Represented the Ethnic & Racial Studies department on the College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities Dean's Advisory Council
2018 - 2020 | Volunteer Tutor UWL Academic Succes Center
Awards and Grants
2024 | Wakonse Conference Award | $1,350
2024 | GPSS Teaching Award | $250
2024 | GPSS Leadership Award | $250
2023 | Aggie Ho Teaching Award | $1,000
2022 | Miller Family Excellence In Service and Leadership Award | $1,500
2022 | Iowa State University Teaching Excellence Award | $500
2020 | Mary O' Sullivan and Francine Ball WTC Transfer Award | $1,000
2020 | Arnold Temte Mathematics and Statistics Honors Award | $750
2020 | Undergraduate Research and Creativity Grant | $1,000
2019 | Undergraduate Research and Creativity Grant | $1,000