CPO 1815
Berea College
Berea, KY 40404
Office: (859) 985-3569
Fax: (859) 985-3906
Brief Biographical Sketch
With graduate
degrees in both disciplines, Jan Pearce serves very happily as an
Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Berea
College. Her current research interests are in the areas of swarm
robotics, environmental modeling, and computer science education. Her
work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation,
the Jessie Ball DuPont Fund, the National Campus Compact: Learn and
Serve America, the Appalachian College Association, and Berea College.
She has published a number of journal and conference papers. She was a
2001 recipient of the Mathematics Association of America (MAA)
Allendorfer Prize for mathematical writing excellence, a 1994 recipient
of the Augustana College Andrew W. Williamson Award for excellence in
mathematics, and a 1991 recipient of the University of Rochester Joseph
Whittaker Fellowship award for teaching excellence. She currently
serves as an associate editor of IEEE International Conference on
Robotics and Automation (ICRA) and serves on the award committee for
the Mathematics Association of America (MAA) Allendorfer Prize.
She has reviewed books and articles for Addison-Wesley-Longman,
Houghton-Mifflin Publishing, the International Conference on
Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) , IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), and
the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Mathematics Magazine. She
has done extensive work in the area of computer science education and
curriculum and has served on several NSF grant review panels in the
Division of Undergraduate Education and the Division of Computer and
Network Systems. She is currently a member of ACM/SIGCSE, IEEE Computer
Society, and the MAA.
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
was founded in 1947 as an international scientific and educational
organization dedicated to advancing the art, science, engineering, and
application of information technology and serves both professional and
public interests.
The Geometry Center is a mathematics
research and education center at the University of Minnesota.
The Math Archives
provides organized Internet access to a wide variety of mathematical resources
with primary emphasis on materials which are used in the teaching of mathematics.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
is a nonprofit professional association whose purpose is to improve
mathematics education for all students in the United States and Canada.
Composed of more than 120,000 teachers, educators, and other
professionals, it is now the largest mathematics education organization
in the world.