James
E. Hamblin
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Shippensburg University
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but
supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without
appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting
or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only
the greatest art can show. The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense
of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is
to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. -- Bertrand Russell
- Office: MCT 286
- Phone: (717) 477-1592
- Email: jehamb@ship.edu
- Fall 2009 Office Hours:
By appointment only.
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Recent Activites/Projects
- Doug Ensley and I submitted a grant proposal to the PASSHE Faculty Professional Development Council. On April 10, 2009, our proposal, "Development of a Technology Supplement for a General Education Mathematics Course," was selected for funding.
- My Fall 2009 sabbatical proposal "Development of an Interactive Low-Cost Textbook for Math for Liberal Studies," was approved.
- Co-organized 2009 Math/Computer Day with Dudley Girard. This year's event was attended by 13 regional schools, bringing over 70 high school juniors to campus for math and computer programming competitions.
- Attended the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Washington, DC in January 2009.
- Conducted interviews for the Math Department Search.
- Co-presented Assessment Across the Curriculum; Varying Strategies for Varying Situations with Winston Crawley in the MAA Session on Assessment of Student Learning in Undergraduate Mathematics
- Co-organized the MAA-Project NExT Panel Discussion Designing and teaching a geometry course for preservice secondary mathematics teachers.
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8/9/09
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