Publications

"On Initiation of Polymerization Waves in Thermal Free-Radical Frontal Polymerization" Ph.D. Thesis, Northwestern University, 2003

"Strand Committees and Course Coordination: Complementary Structures to Drive Evidence-Based Improvements" with J. Vandenbussche, K. Callahan, K. Keating, and E. Westlund in PRIMUS (2024) doi:10.1080/10511970.2024.2352361

"A study of student perceptions of office hours" with J. Vandenbussche, C. Scherrer, and J. Whipple in Journal on Excellence in College Teaching (2021) v. 32(4) p. 81-115

"Using Strand Committees to Build Faculty Support for Departmental Change" with J. Vandenbussche, K. Callahan, and E. Westlund in PRIMUS (2021) 31(3-5) p. 330-342

"An incentivized early remediation program in Calculus I" With Jennifer Vandenbussche, and Christina Scherrer in International Journal of Mathematics Education in Science and Technology (2018) p. 1235-1249

"On the contributions of W. Edward Olmstead" With Colleen Kirk in J. of Integral Equations and Applications (2018) v. 30 (1) pp. 3-15

"A mathematical model of endothelial nitric oxide synthase activation with time delay exhibiting Hopf bifurcation and oscillations" With J. Salerno, and C. Chrestensen in Mathematical Biosciences (2016) v. 281 pp. 62-73

"Foam Cell Formation in Atherosclerosis: HDL and Macrophage Reverse Cholesterol Transport" With S. Zhang, and A. I. Ibragimov in Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, Supplement (2013) pp. 825-835

"Illuminating Atherogenesis Through Mathematical Modeling" (book chapter) With A.I. Ibragimov, C.J. McNeal, and J.R. Walton, in Atherogenesis, Sampath Parthasarathy ed. (2011), pp. 49-70

"Stability Analysis of a Reaction-Diffusion System Modeling Atherogenesis" With A.I. Ibragimov, and J.R. Walton, SIAM J. Appl. Math.70 (2010), pp. 2150-2185

"To Discuss or Not to Discuss: Integrating Pedagogies for Honors and Mathematics" With W. Griffiths and N. Reichert, Honors in Practice Vol. 6 (2010), pp. 85-99

"Stability analysis of a model of atherogenesis: An energy estimate approach II"With A.I. Ibragimov, C.J. McNeal, and J.R. Walton, J. of Comp. and Math. Meth. in Med. , Vol.11(1), (2010) pp. 67-88

"Stability analysis using an energy estimate approach of a reaction-diffusion model of atherogenesis" With A.I. Ibragimov, C.J. McNeal, and J.R. Walton, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, Supplement (2009), pp. 630-639 

"Stability analysis of a model of atherogenesis: An energy estimate approach" With A.I. Ibragimov, C.J. McNeal, and J.R. Walton, J. of Comp. and Math. Meth. in Med. , Vol.9(2),(2008) pp. 121-142 

"A dynamic model of atherogenesis as an inflammatory response" With A.I. Ibragimov, C.J. McNeal, and J.R. Walton, DCDIS A Supplement, Advances in Dynamical Systems, Vol.14(S2) (2007), pp. 185--189

"A Mathematical Model of Atherogenesis as an Inflammatory Response" With A.I. Ibragimov, C.J. McNeal, and J.R. Walton, Math. Med. Biol. , 22 (2005), pp. 305--333

"A Numerical Analysis of Initiation of Polymerization Waves" with A. Heifetz, V.A.Volpert and W.E.Olmstead, Math. Comp. M. 41 (2005) pp. 271-285

"Initiation of Free-Radical Polymerization Waves" with W.E.Olmstead and V.A.Volpert, SIAM J. on Appl. Math.63 (2003), pp. 1831--1848