- MARTHA J. SIEGEL, Ph.D.
- PROFESSOR
- DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
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- I received my Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics from Russell Sage College in Troy,
NY. and attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as a special student
during my years at Sage. My graduate work was done at the University of
Rochester, where I earned the Ph.D. in 1969. My thesis, "On Birth and
Death Processes," was in the area of stochastic processes. From 1966
until 1971, I taught at Goucher College in Baltimore. Since 1971, I have
been a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics at Towson University, first as Associate Professor,
and promoted to Professor in 1978. I served as chair of the department from 2000-2003.
- My mathematical interests continue to be in the area of
probability, applied mathematics and modeling. I did a post-doc at The
Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health in Operations
Research and Mental Health in 1977-78 under grants from the National
Institute of Mental Health and the National Science Foundation.
- From January 1991 until January 1996, I was the Editor of
Mathematics Magazine, a journal of the Mathematical Association of America
(MAA). I served on the Executive Committee of the MAA from 1991 to 2010,
and as Secretary of the Association from 1996 to 2010. For many
years, I have been on the MAA Consultants list and am experienced as a
program reviewer.
- I am a founding member of the Maryland Mathematics and Science
Coalition. At Towson University, I have received the College of Natural
and Mathematical Sciences' Outstanding Faculty Award as well as the
President's Award for Outstanding Service to the University. For most of my career,
I have been a member of the Towson University Senate, and for the last 10 years I
have been a representative of Towson to the Council of University System Faculty (CUSF) of the University System of Maryland. I have served as chair of CUSF twice.
- Other interests have been in developing the collegiate
curriculum and I have contributed in various ways to the mathematical
community in this area. I am the author (with Larry Goldstein and David
Schneider) of Finite Mathematics and Its Applications,
10th Edition, Pearson Higher Education, 2008 and have been part of the authoring team
with Sheldon Gordon, Ben Fusaro, Florence Gordon, and Alan Tucker of the
precalculus "reform" text, Functioning in the Real World,
prepared with support of the National Science Foundation, and now being
published by Pearson Higher Education.
As chair of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Committee on
Discrete Mathematics in the First Two Years in the early 80's, I received
a Sloan Foundation grant to make recommendations concerning the need for
discrete mathematics courses at that level. I have participated in
several ICME's and had a paper published in the Cambridge University Press
series of proceedings of ICMI Study Groups - in particular, in
"Mathematics as a Service Subject."
- I am a member of the American Mathematical Society, the Mathematical Association of
America, the Society for
Industrial and Applied Mathematics, The Association for Women in Mathematics, and Pi Mu Epsilon.
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