I am a graduate student at Oklahoma State in the final year of my PhD. My primary research focuses on undergraduate mathematics education on the boundary of mathematics and science and pre/in-service secondary education. I am currently focused on undergraduate calculus students’ quantitative reasoning and modeling, such as how initially situating inquiry-based integral and derivative tasks within realistic engineering and physics contexts enhances the development of robust mathematical structures in ways that support their productive transition to other STEM coursework. For my graduate research, I identified the mathematical conceptions necessary for students to make progress towards modeling situations in which the differential form of a definite integral does not naturally decompose as a rate times a small change in an independent quantity (e.g. identifying the gravitational force between a rod and a particle).

I'm married, have two dogs and a cat, and like to create elaborate costumes in what little free time I have. At the moment I'm also quite addicted to playing 'killer soduku' which has taken up more hours of my life than I should probably admit.