Steve Morics Ph.D.

• Ph.D., mathematics, University of Virginia
• M.S., mathematics, University of Virginia
• B.A., mathematics, St. Olaf College

• 2 presentations at MAA-AMS Joint Meetings, San Diego, January 2009: "New technologies for faculty: Wikis, discussion boards, and clickers" and "Capstone and one-semester research projects for a variety of students

• Written seven reviews for MAA Online, and referred five articles for Mathematics Magazine and College Mathematics Journal

• Member of MAA's Committee on the Mathematical Education of Teachers (COMET), developing documents and guidelines for adequate mathematical preparation for current and future teachers, January 2009 - January 2012

• Member of the editorial board for MAA's Spectrum Series

• Future projects include an in-class module introducing recent results in voting theory to non-majors, and an examination of topics in group theory which appear in music, being co-written with a former student, now a faculty member at Loyola Marymount

Academic Experience

• Mathematics and music
• Mathematics and social choice
• Research in undergraduate mathematics education

• “Development of Students’ Understanding of Cosets, Normality, and Quotient Groups.” With Mark Asiala, Ed Dubinsky, David Mathews, and Asuman Oktac. Journal of Mathematical Behavior 16 (3): 241–309.

• “Capstone and One-Semester Research Projects for a Variety of Students.” Co-organizer and panelist, AMS–MAA Joint Meetings, San Diego, January 2008.
• “New Technologies for Faculty: Wikis, Discussion Boards, and Clickers.” Panelist, AMS–MAA Joint Meetings, San Diego, January 2008.
• “A New Look at Arrow’s Theorem.” California State University, San Bernardino, February 21, 2007.
• “Mathematics and Social Choice: A First-Year Experience for Non-Majors.” Southern California–Nevada Section of the Mathematical Association of America Fall Meeting, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2004.
• “Take Your Seats: Apportionment in the United States and Iraq.” Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, April 2004.
• “Voronoi Diagrams and Scheduling Forest Rehabilitation.” With Co Livingston. North Central Section of the Mathematical Association of America Spring Meeting, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, April 2003.
• “Mathematics Education Research Done Right, or How I Learned What a Genetic Decomposition Is.” Augsburg College, Minneapolis, January 29, 2003.
• “A Mathematical Consulting Experience for Undergraduates.” Associated New American Colleges Summer Meeting, Ithaca, New York, June 14–16, 2001.
• “A Mathematical Consulting Experience for Undergraduates.” Mathematics Across the Curriculum Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, July 1999.
• “Why 1?” Claremont Colleges Mathematics Colloquium, April 1999.
• “Reading Right to Left: The Littlewood-Richardson Number.” Contributed Papers Session, Southern California Section of the Mathematical Association of America Fall Meeting, October 1997.
• “Students’ Understanding of Cosets, Normality, and Quotient Groups.” Special Session on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, AMS–MAA Joint Meetings, San Diego, January 1997.

• Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Redlands, May 2008
• Innovative Teaching Award, University of Redlands, May 2001
• Coordinator, two Project InterMath grants, which led to the creation of MATH 212, Mathematical Consulting
• Outstanding Mathematical Teaching Assistant, University of Virginia, 1994

• Mathematical Association of America
• Phi Beta Kappa (secretary, Xi of California chapter at the University of Redlands)