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James Epperson Phone: 806-742-1423
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| Description of Research | |
| My research interests in undergraduate mathematics education rest in three areas: examining issues of equity and access into mathematics-based disciplines, preparation of pre-service mathematics teachers, and curricular issues in undergraduate mathematics courses. My formal research area in mathematics is percolation theory. The incipient percolation cluster in two-dimensions is fractal and has Hausdorff dimension very close to that of the Sierpinski carpet. My work focuses on examining the critical phenomena arising from a percolation on randomized models of the Sierpinski carpet. |
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| Recent Papers or Publications | |
| Supporting Minority Mathematics Achievement: The Emerging Scholars Program at The University of Texas at Austin, (with R. Asera, C. Muller, S. Moreno, and L. Wyatt),Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, to appear Volume 5, No 2, 1998. Advanced Placement Mathematics Vertical Teams Toolkit, (one of the primary authors with D. Holtzman, S. May, D. Sandow, and D. Stanley), published by The College Board and The Charles A. Dana Center, May 1998. |
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| Special Honors or Awards | |
| Texas Project NExT Fellow, Mathematical Association of America, 1998. Project NExT (National ) Fellow, Mathematical Association of America, 1998. Dodd Teaching Excellence Award, 1991 & 1994. Department of Mathematics Teaching Excellence Award, 1993. Continuing Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, 1992 1993. David Brunton, Jr., Graduate Fellowship in Mathematics, 1992. Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, 1987 1989. Outstanding Senior Physics Major Award (TAMUC), 1987. Academic AllAmerican Collegiate Award, 1987. Mathematics Excellence Scholarship (TAMUC), 1986. Whos Who Among Students in American Universities, 1986. United States Achievement Academy Scholarship, 1985. Presidential Merit Scholarship (TAMUC), 1984 1987.
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