UW Curricular Redesign Grant

I was the principal investigator for the grant proposal made and accepted to the UW System grant "Curricular Redesign Grant" where I propose the creation of a unique Learning Community for Mathematics consisting of Faculty members from Biology, Chemistry, Economics and Psychology where these Faculty members bring real-life applications in Algebra which will be processed by students via Excel in a sequence of "Algebra Labs". I was also able to strike collaboration with UW-Whitewater. This grant was the only grant proposal to be accepted from the Colleges. The grant award was for $10,000. The learning community is currently being formed with Hamid Milani (Economics),Paul Whitaker and Kris Prahal (Biology) . Marlowe Embree (Economics) and Joel case (Chemistry) actively contributing Mathematical models from their classrooms in to the Excel Math labs. The Excel worksheets were created already been created and the Labs started in spring 2011. See UW System site description at http://www.wisconsin.edu/olit/ltdc/grants/2010-2011/index.html . The results of this grant were presented at the 6th Annual Best Practices in STEM Teaching Conference in August 2012 through a presentation titled “Making College Algebra real though modeling and peer collaboration”