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Director Stanley J. Bezuszka, S.J., a native of Poland, arrived in the USA at an early age and received his primary and secondary education in Lowell, Massachusetts. After entering the Jesuit order he continued his academic pursuits at Weston College, Boston College and Brown University. Father Bezuszka has had a long and distinguished career in mathematics education. He has led well over 900 presentations, workshops and minicourses of a mathematical nature in this country and overseas. These presentations have been marked with deep insights about mathematics content and the teaching and learning of mathematics. His talks and conversation are invariably punctuated with humorous stories and anecdotes, the majority of which pertain to teachers, students and their environment. His years of experience as a mathematics teacher at the university level and as a frequent visitor to classrooms that run the gamut K-12, have provided a wealth of subject matter and subjects for his lively imagination and and keen mind to capture in print. In 1990 the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics honored their colleague in mathematics education and presented Stanley Bezuszka, S. J. with the Glenn Gilbert Award for his outstanding service to the profession and in 1995, the Mathematics Education Trust Foundation of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics bestowed upon him its Lifetime Achievement Award for Teaching. |
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Assistant Director Margaret J. Kenney, a graduate of Boston College and Boston University, has been involved in mathematics education in the Boston area throughout her professional life. She is currently Professor of Mathematics at Boston College and in this capacity works with mathematics and computer science majors, and particularly those students who show an interest in becoming teachers. Peg is a past president of the Associations of Teachers of Mathematics in Massaachusetts and in New England. She has been consistently active in the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics having served on its Board of Directors, Publications Committee, Discrete Mathematics Task Force and the Mathematics Education Trust. She was issue editor of the 1991 NCTM Yearbook and the General Editor for the 1996-1998 yearbooks. In addition to teaching, writing, and speaking, she has served as Director of a National Science Foundation Project in the 1990s linking Boston College with five other universities across the United States in the common goal of preparing secondary teachers to initiate change and to implement aspects of discrete mathematics in the secondary curriculum. |
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Research Associate Joan D. Martin, in addition to her position as a research associate at the Boston College Mathematics Institute, is a Mathematics and Science Specialist for grades K to 5 in the Newton Public Schools. Joan is a graduate of Boston College and Harvard University and is a board member of the Association of Teachers of Mathematics in Massachusetts. |
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Research Associate Geraldine K. Mele started her teaching career at Avon High School. She taught math there until she joined the staff of the Boston College Mathematics Institute as a research associate. Since 1984, she has also been a member of the Mathematical Sciences Department of Bentley College as an adjunct instructor of mathematics. Gerry is a graduate of Stonehill College and Boston College. |
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Administrative
Assistant Josephine Kokoska has been an administrative assistant at the Boston College Mathematics Institute since its inception. Her valuable administrative skills and outgoing personality have kept it running smoothly. |
