Paper | Poster

As part of a composition course, my term paper focused on the educational models for genetics taught to students. The intent of the paper was to challenge reductive model of genetics often taught to students and suggest pedagogical alternatives which place genetics within a broader framework that demonstrates more of the complexities of developmental biology.

Image credit: Waddington 1957.

Paper

As part of a composition course, I authored a paper exploring the teaching of evolution in US public schools. The paper focuses on the history of evolution education over the 20th and 21st centuries. It also emphasizes the importance of a robust biology education rooted in Darwin's Theory of Evolution.

Publication | Poster | Presentation

In 2011, I participated in an REU research program through Ohio Wesleyan's Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.

The research was investigating the cooperative shortest-path algorithms in which several actors can amortize the costs of their journeys by sharing them with other actors.

Solutions to this variation of the traditional shortest path algorithm were unknown. We were able to show that several naive approaches to this problem were intractable, and we suggested, although without rigorous proof, that the problem was NP-complete.

Image re-used from the publication.