Statement of Service Participation
Catherine A. Roberts


This statement is included to illustrate the variety of my service involvement.
It is divided into three categories: service to the profession, service to Holy Cross, and previous service.

A. Professional Service

Memberships on Committees of Professional Groups or Societies
Journal of Natural Resource Modeling, Editor-in-Chief (July 2003 - present)
Association for Women in Mathematics Executive Committee, Member-at-Large (Jan 2002 - present)
Resource Modeling Association, Board of Directors (July 2002 - present)
UMAP Journal of Undergraduate Mathematics & its Applications, Associate Editor (Jan 2005 - present)

AWM Chair of Search Committee for an Executive Director (May 2005 - present)
AWM Chair of Fundraising Committee (Jan 2004 - present)
AWM Mentor Network (July 2001 - present)
The Grand Canyon River Group, founding member & technical advisor (Jan 2001 - present)


Previous such service:
Lead Organizer of the AWM Workshop at the Baltimore Joint Math Meeting in Jan 2003 (2001 - 2004)
SIAM judge for the Mathematical Contest in Modeling (five years)
Selection Committee for the AWM Workshop at the Baltimore Joint Math Meetings in Jan 2003 (fall 2002)
Judge for the AWM Essay Contest (fall 2002)
SIAM Visiting Lecturer Program Committee (three years)
SIAM Education Committee (three years)
AWM Workshop Selection Committee for Annual SIAM meeting (twice)
AWM Nominating Committee (one year)
Co-organizer for the AWM Workshop for Annual Joint Mtgs (three years)
AMS-MAA-SIAM Morgan Prize Committee (three years)
NSF Reviewer NSF Review Panel - UFE/CCD programs (twice)
Reviewer of one proposal for NSF Program in Applied Mathematics
Invitation to serve on NSF Review Panel CSEMS Prog. (twice declined)

Journal Reviewer
SIAM J. Applied Math
Journal Math Analysis and Applications
Arabian Journal for Science & Engineering

Journal Difference Eqns and Appl
Journal Methods in Applied Sciences
Journal of Integral Equations & Applications
UMAP Journal of Undergarduate Mathematics & its Applications
Natural Resource Modeling

Textbook Reviewer
PDE text proposal , one reference book & two Calculus texts
A. Jerri's Intro to Integral Eqns
Elementary PDE, 3e by R. Haberman
Connally/Hughes Hallett et. al. College Algebra project

Other
Keynote lecturer at MAA regional conference (Nov 2005)
Panelist
for Environmental Themes in Research and Teaching (Sep 2004) - Collegeville, PA.
Workshop presenter for Project NeXT (July 2004) - Providence, RI.
Workshop presenter for Project NeXT (July 2003) - Boulder, CO..
Workshop presenter for Project NeXT (July 2002) - Burlington, VT.
Outside reviewer of tenure file for faculty member at another college (June 2004).

Extensive newspaper/radio interviews (see research)
Co-editor for Creative Math Teaching newsletter (five years)
Bowdoin College, Chair of BASIC territory AZ-03 (one year)
Judge for the High School Math Contest in Modeling (one year)

B. Service at the College of the Holy Cross (2001 - present)

Director of the Calculus Workshop (fall 2002 - spring 2005)
Chair, Committee on the Economic Status of the Faculty (fall 2004 - spring 2005)
Academic Standing Committee (fall 2003 - spring 2006)
Committee on Faculty Affairs, at large member (Jul 2004 - June 2005)
Departmental Liason to the Teacher Certification Program (fall 2001- present)
Co-organizer for Departmental Tea & Games (Jan 2002 - Jul 2003)
Department Representative to the Avon Scholarship Committee (spring 2002)
Environmental Studies Faculty (fall 2001 - present)
Revised master syllabus for Math 131: Calculus for the Physical & Life Sciences (summer 2002)
Department Committee to construct statement on academic integrity (summer 2002)
Curricular Goals Communication & Rhetoric Committee - member & website master (fall 2002 - spring 2003)
Department Liason to MAA, AWM, AMS (fall 2002 - spring 2003)
Homecoming Weekend Continuing Education Featured Speaker (fall 2002)
Volunteer at Cookout for Service Professionals & their Families (summers 2001 - 2005)
Volunteer dinner host for incoming freshmen in the Odyssey Program (fall 2003, fall 2004)
Odyssey Program, presenter on Mathematics at Holy Cross (fall 2003, fall 2004)
Curricular Goals Collaborative Teaching Committee (spring 2004)

Odyssey Presentation on "What to Expect from your Math course" (Aug 2003, Aug 2004)
Faculty Mentor for for first year ALANA students (Aug 2004 - May 2005)

C. Service while at Northern Arizona University (1995 - 2001)

Committee Memberships
Commission on the Status of Women (one year)
Faculty Senate (two years)
Steering Committee for Office of Teaching/Learning (two years)
Masters of Engineering Steering Committee (two years)
Faculty Summer Research Awards Committee (two years)
Dean's Focus Group Leader for Excellence in Arts & Sciences (one)
Member of Minority Biomedical Research Support Program (one year)
Space Planning Committee for VP Business Affairs (two years)
Departmental Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (one year)
Departmental Graduate Curriculum Committee (one year)
Departmental Graduate Operations Committee (four years)
Departmental Chair of Screening Committee for Math Education position (once)
Departmental Tenure-track Faculty Screening Committee (three times)
Departmental Faculty Workload Committee (one year)
Departmental Annual Faculty Review Committee (four years)
Departmental Calculus Gateway Committee (one year)
Departmental Instructor Screening Committee (three times)
Departmental Calculus Textbook Committee (one year)
Departmental Faculty Tenure/Promotion Committee (three years)
Departmental Planning Committee for Sonia Kovalevsky Day (one year)

Individual Assignments
Faculty Fellow for University President (one semester shadow)
Review board for student grade appeal (once)
Marshall at the College of A&S Recognition Ceremony (often)
Colloquium Coordinator (one year)
Revising/Updating the DepartmentŐs Brochure (two years)
Recruitment for Graduate Program (one year)
Department Website Design/Maintenance (two years)
Co-director of REU Summer program (two years)
Mentoring Undergraduate majors - approximately seven per year
Graduate Teaching Assistants - approximately one per year
Master's thesis advisor- one
Doctoral thesis advisor - one
Faculty mentor - one

Other
University Representative for Board of Directors of the Rocky Mountain Mathematics Consortium (three years)
Established and coordinate the Modeling and Simulation Lab
Presenter for REU summer programs
Presenter for Upward Bound summer programs
Flagstaff Festival of Science presenter at 2 local schools
Presenter for High School math days
Raised $1700 to bring a NYC writer/performer to campus
Guest Speaker for graduate course "College Teaching"

 


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