NES MAA

Elections of Officers

As specified in Article III, 5a, of the Bylaws of the Northeastern Section, the Section will conduct the bi-annual election of officers at the business meeting of its Fall meeting at Sacred Heart University on November 18, 2006. As specified by Article III,6, a committee consisting of Ockle Johnson as chair, and Linda Kelleher and Frank Ford as members will present the slate listed below. Nominations from the floor will be accepted. Vote will be by secret ballot of those members attending the business meeting. Note that the Vice-Chair elected at this meeting will become the Chair of the Section after the November 2007 meeting. Biographies supplied by the candidates are below the slate. Click on a candidate to go to his/her biography.

For Vice-Chair:

Jason Moliterno, Sacred Heart University

Robert Poodiac, Norwich University

For Secretary-Treasurer:

Ann Kizanis, Western New England College

For Two-Year Representative:

Lois Martin, Massasoit Community College

Biographies:

Jason Moliterno:

Jason Molitierno is an assistant professor of Mathematics at Sacred Heart University; this is his sixth year there. He received his B.A. from Connecticut College in 1996 with a major in Mathematics, minor in American History, and a teaching certificate for grades 7-12. After briefly teaching seventh grade in New London, CT, Jason pursued his Ph.D. at the University of Connecticut which he received in 2001. His areas of research are matrix theory and graph theory. An MAA member since 1998, Jason has attended every Northeast Sectional meeting and every national meeting since 2001. He was co-chair of the Program Committee for the MAA/NES Spring 2004 meeting, a member of the Program Committee for the MAA/NES Spring 2005 meeting, and chair of the Local Arrangements committee for the MAA/NES Fall 2006 meeting. Jason also organized an MAA dinner meeting at Sacred Heart University in April 2003, and he gave the invited talk at the MAA dinner meeting at Simmons College in April 2006. Jason has also served the section by being a member of the Distinguished Teaching Award Committee for three consecutive years, 2002-2005. He has been active in Section NExT and is currently assisting in organizing a problem solving competition that we hope to have at future MAA/NES meetings. At the national level, Jason has chaired several MAA contributed paper sessions at both MathFests and Joint MAA-AMS meetings. He has given a variety of talks at these meetings in both research and pedagogy. Jason has won a variety of teaching awards. He also actively mentors undergraduate research and is currently mentoring two students.

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Robert Poodiac:

Rob Poodiack is an Associate Professor at Norwich University, where he's been since 1999. He did his graduate work at the University of Vermont in Fourier analysis, but spends more time investigating technology in the classroom and, currently, versions of trigonometric functions under different metrics. An MAA member since 1997, Rob was Local Arrangements Chair for the Spring 2001 meeting at Norwich. He was also a co-presenter of the Summer 2002 Short Course. Rob served on the local arrangements committee for Mathfest 2002 in Burlington, VT and has been the organizer of the contributed paper sessions at the NES/MAA meetings since 2004. At Norwich, Rob is co-advisor of the student section of the MAA and has organized the successful Integration Bee to kick off Mathematics Awareness Month every April.

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Ann Kizanis:

Ann graduated with a B.A. in Mathematics from Connecticut College in 1985. During her time there, she received the Julia Welles Bower Prize for Excellence in Mathematics each year. She also received the Rosemary Park Fellowship for Teaching in 1985 and was named a Winthrop Scholar.

She did her graduate work at Wesleyan University in the area of archimedean lattice-ordered groups and graduated with a Ph.D. in 1991. She then began working as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Western New England College. She was granted tenure in 1995, was promoted to Associate Professor in 1996, and was promoted to Professor in 2004. While at Western New England College, she received the Teaching Excellence Award in 1995, as well as the Golden Bear Award, given in recognition of unselfish commitment to the student body at the college. Four years ago, Ann accepted the position of Associate Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at the college. She continues to enjoy the challenges of this position, as well as the rewarding experiences she receives from teaching.

Ann has published papers on her area of interest, epicompletions of archimean lattice-ordered groups and has had a joint paper published this past year.

Ann remains very active in governance and department affairs at the college. She has been a member of many committees at the college during the last fifteen years. Among them, she has served on the Faculty Senate for three terms, was chair of a retention task force, and has been chair of the First Year Program Committee since 1997. She also served as advisor to the Math Club from 1992-2000. She is presently on the Peer Review Committee and serves on many other committees.

Ann has been a member of the Mathematical Association of America since graduate school. She was a member of the Program Committee for the Fall Meeting of the NES/MAA that was held at Western New England College in 1997 and was also Publisher Liaison for the Spring Meetings in 1995, 1996. She has served as Secretary/Treasurer of the Northeastern Section of the Mathematical Association of America for the last six years. Ann has learned a great deal during this time and enjoys working and interacting with members of the Northeastern section. She hopes to continue to serve the section and looks forward to being involved in the planning of the Fall Meeting that will be held at Western New England College in 2009.

In her free time, Ann enjoys traveling. She visits her relatives in Greece each summer. She and her husband enjoy sight seeing, visiting family, and relaxing while in Greece. They also enjoy cooking together, visiting museums, and working outside on gardening and landscaping projects.

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Lois Martin:

Lois Martin is a professor of Mathematics at Massasoit Community College, where she has taught since 1978. She has a B.S. (Mathematics) from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an M.A.T. (Mathematics) from Bridgewater State College. She is active in both the New England Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (NEMATYC) and the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC) and has given presentations at conferences for both organizations. Last January she participated in a contributed paper session at the Joint Meetings in San Antonio. She is currently serving her third three-year term as NEMATYC treasurer and her second three- year term on AMATYC’s Program Committee and has been a delegate at AMATYC conferences for several years. The current Two-Year College Representative for the Northeastern Section, Professor Martin is a longtime member of MAA, was a member of a CUPM Focus Group at Mathfest 2002, and represented the two-year colleges on the NES/MAA Nominating Committee in 2002 and on the Teaching Award Selection Committee in 2004. At Massasoit Community College she is the current Mathematics Department Chair and has held the position of Academic Senate President. She has also received the NISOD Award for Teaching Excellence and the Governor’s Pride in Performance Award.

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