CV

Dr. Miranda Teboh-Ewungkem
Professor of Practice
Department of Mathematics
610-758-3741
mit703@lehigh.edu
Ph.D. Lehigh 2003
Country of Citizenship: USA

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RESEARCH Areas/INTERESTS

Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Biology, Population Dynamics and Evolution, Perturbation Techniques, Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems, Modeling Complex Biological Systems, Markov Decision Processes.

I use Mathematics and Computational methods to understand the transmission dynamics of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, with the end goal being disease control. I take the one health approach in which the end goal of control can be understood from a multi-faceted complex view points, where interactions between players contribute in different ways towards a sucessful transmission of disease within a soceity. For example, in malaria transmission, where there are three interacting populations, the human, the pathogen that causes malaria and the mosquitoes responsible for transmitting the pathogen from one human to another, there are three living interacting populations each with an evolutionary need to survive. I use differential equations (ODE and PDEs) to ellucidate the complexities that exists due to these interactions and model how these interactions enhances disease transmission. While I have focussed on the malaria disease, the work I do can be extended to other mosquito-borne diseases such as Dengue, Zika, Chikungunya and lymphatic filariasis. Additionally, in an effort to control these diseases, decisions have to be made and the stake holders and decision makers can enable or enhance the kind of responses and control achieved. Thus I am interested in incoporating Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) and its variations via stochastic complex models in understandin the effects of such decisions on disease control. 

I am also interested in the development of models applicable to transport phenomena from capillaries to tissues. Extensions to this research area exits, including unsteady flow for dosage therapy, and drug administration to tumor growth in cancer chemotherapy,  and I am interested in these applications. The mathematics involve solving partial differential equations and also using asymptotic and perturbation techniques in analyzing partial differential equations. I also have interest in the mathematics that deals with chronic skin inflammation, a process by which dendritic cells (DCs) are constantly sampling antigen in the skin and migrating to lymph nodes where they induce the activation and proliferation of T cells. The T cells then travel back to the skin where they release cytokines that induce and maintain the inflammatory condition. This process is cyclic and ongoing. In the case of chronic inflammation, the desire is to interrupt this DC migration.

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D. in Math/Applied Mathematics, May 2003, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, 18015
    Dissertation: Mathematical analysis of oxygen and substrate transport within a multicapillary system in skeletal muscle; Advisor: Prof. Eric P. Salathe,GPA 3.84/4.0.
  • M. S. in Statistics, January 2003, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, 18015, GPA 4.0/4.0.
  • M.S. in Mathematics, July 1998, University of Buea, S.W.P, Cameroon.
    Thesis: Mathematical Analysis of the Dynamics and Transmission of Malaria
    Advisor: Dr. Ngwa Gideon Akumah; GPA 3.75/4.00, Approximately equivalent to 4.00/4.00 American Standard.
  • B.S. in Mathematics, July 1996, University of Buea, S.W.P, Cameroon.
    GPA 3.60/4.00 Approximately equivalent to 3.97/4.00 American Standard.
  • Minor in Computer Science, University of Buea, S.W.P, Cameroon.

POSITIONS HELD

  • Professor of Practice in Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Lehigh University, August 2015-Present
  • Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Buea, January 2018; Also, May – June, 2019.
  • Adjunct Professor/ Volunteer Visiting Senior Research Scholar, Institute for Biomedical Engineering and Mathematical Biology/Department of Mathematics, Lehigh University, August 26th 2013 - May 31st 2014/August 2014, August 24th 2014- May 31st 2015/August 2015.
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Lafayette College, July 2006-June 2013
  • Visiting Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, University of Buea, May 1st -July 31st, 2009.
  • Guest Researcher, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD 20892, January 2009.
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Lafayette College, August 2004-July 2006.
  • Visiting Post-Doc, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, July 2004.
  • C.C. Hsiung Visiting Assistant Professor, Lehigh University, August 2003-August 2004.
  • Teaching Assistant, Lehigh University, Fall of 1999-Spring of 2002.
  • Dean’s Fellow, Lehigh University, Fall of 1998-Spring of 1999.
  • Teaching Assistant, University of Buea, Fall 1997-Spring 1998.

HONORS/AWARDS

  • Appointed Fellow of African Scientific Institute (www.asi-org.net), April 2020.
  • Mathematically Gifted and Black Honoree, February 2020: https://mathematicallygiftedandblack.com/honorees/
  • Unity in Diversity Community Award for women's History Month 2020, 2021
  • 2018/2019 Nominee: African Academy of Science (AAS).
  • Best Professor, Summer Excel Program, Lehigh University, summer, 2003.
  • President of the Republic’s Prize for Best Mathematics Student, 1996, 1998
  • Best University Student Award, Best Graduate Student Award and Best Mathematics Student Award, with the highest GPA in the entire University, University of Buea, Cameroon, 1998.
  • Dean’s Fellowship, Graduate School at Lehigh University, 1998.
  • International Commonwealth Scholarship Recipient, August, 1998.
  • Best Undergraduate Mathematics Student Award, University of Buea-Cameroon, 1996.
  • Top three graduating female Award, University of Buea-Cameroon, 1996.
  • Member of the Honor Society for International students and Scholars-Beta Pi Chapter of Phi Beta Delta (Inducted in 2000).
  • Dean’s list award for five out of six semesters, University of Buea, Cameroon, Spring 1994, 1995, 1996, Fall 1994, 1995.

PUBLICATIONS

PEER REFEREED aRTICLES

  1. Helle KB, Sadiku A, Zelleke GM, Ibrahim TB, Bouba A, Tsoungui Obama HC Junior, Appiah V,  Ngwa GA, Teboh-Ewungkem MI and Schneider KA (2021). Is increased mortality by multiple exposures to COVID-19 an overseen factor when aiming for herd immunity? PLoS ONE 16(7): e0253758. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0253758
  2. Adil Mahmoud Yousif N, Tsoungui Obama HCJ, Ngucho Mbeutchou YJ, Kwamou Ngaha SF, Kayanula L, Kamanga G, Toheeb B. Ibrahim, Patience Bwanu Iliya, Sulyman Iyanda, Looli Alawam, Teboh-Ewungkem, MI and Schneider, KA (2021). The impact of COVID-19 vaccination campaigns accounting for antibody-dependent enhancement. PLoS ONE 16(4): e0245417. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245417
  3. Tsoungui Obama HCJ, Adil Mahmoud Yousif N, Alawam Nemer L, Ngougoue Ngougoue PM, Ngwa GA, Teboh-Ewungkem M, Schneider KA (2021). Preventing COVID-19 spread in closed facilities by regular testing of employees—An efficient intervention in long-term care facilities and prisons? PLoS ONE 16(4): e0249588. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0249588.
  4. Teboh-Ewungkem MI, Woldegerima WA and Ngwa GA (2021). Mathematical assessment of the impact of human-antibodies on sporogony during the within-mosquito dynamics of Plasmodium falciparum parasites, J Theor Biol. Volume 515, 21 April 2021, 110562.
  5. Teboh-Ewungkem MI, Ngwa GA (2021). Infectious Diseases and Our Planet. In: Teboh-Ewungkem M.I., Ngwa G.A. (eds) Infectious Diseases and Our Planet. Mathematics of Planet Earth, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50826-5_1
  6. Teboh-Ewungkem MI, Ngwa G., Fomboh-Nforba MY (2021) A Multistage Mosquito-Centred Mathematical Model for Malaria Dynamics that Captures Mosquito Gonotrophic Cycle Contributions to Its Population Abundance and Malaria Transmission. In: Teboh-Ewungkem M.I., Ngwa G.A. (eds) Infectious Diseases and Our Planet. Mathematics of Planet Earth, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50826-5_5
  7. Teboh-Ewungkem MI and Ngwa GA (2021).  COVID-19 in malaria-endemic regions: potential consequences for malaria intervention coverage, morbidity, and mortality. The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 21(1), 5–6. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30763-5
  8. Feng Z, Gurski KF, Prosper O, Teboh-Ewungkem MI and Grogan MA (2020). A Mosquito-Borne Disease Model with Non-exponentially Distributed Infection and Treatment Stages, J Dyn Diff Equat. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10884-020-09863-2
  9. Ngwa GA, Woldegerima WA, Teboh-Ewungkem MI (2020). A Mathematical Study of the Implicit Role of Innate and Adaptive Immune Responses on Within-Human Plasmodium Falciparum Parasite Levels, Journal of Biological Systems, 28 (02), 377-429. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218339020400069
  10. Teboh-Ewungkem MI and Ngwa GA (2020).  Fighting malaria with ivermectin: a novel malaria control tool. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Comment. 20(4), 394-395, https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(19)30691-7
  11. Woldegerima WA, Teboh-Ewungkem MI and Ngwa GA (2019). The Impact of Recruitment on the Dynamics of an Immune-Suppressed Within Human-Host Model of the Plasmodium falciparum Parasite. Bull Math. Biol.  81 (11), 4564–4619. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11538-018-0436-0
  12. Ngwa GA, Teboh-Ewungkem MI, Dumont Y, Ouifki R and Banasiak J (2019). On a three-stage structured model for the dynamics of malaria transmission with human treatment, adult vector demographics and one aquatic stage. J Theor Biol. 481(21) 202-222.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2018.12.043
  13. Manore CA, Teboh-Ewungkem MI, Prosper O, Peace AL, Gurski K, Feng ZO (2019). Intermittent Preventive Treatment (IPT): Its role in averting disease-induced mortalities in children and in promoting the spread of antimalarial drug resistance. Bull Math. Biol. 81(1): 193-234. doi: 10.1007/s11538-018-0524-1.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11538-018-0524-1
  14. Woldegerima WA, Ngwa GA, Teboh-Ewungkem MI. Sensitivity analysis for a within-human-host immuno-pathogenesis dynamics of Plasmodium falciparum parasites, in R. Anguelov, M. Lachowicz (Editors), Mathematical Methods and Models in Biosciences, Biomath Forum, Sofia, 2018, pp. 140-168, http://dx.doi.org/10.11145/texts.2018.05.257
  15. Teboh-Ewungkem MI and Yuster T (2016). Evolutionary implications for the determination of gametocyte sex ratios under fecundity variation for the malaria parasite, J Theor Biol, 408: 260–273. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2016.08.015
  16. Ngwa GA and Teboh-Ewungkem MI (2016). A Mathematical model with quarantine states for the dynamics of Ebola Virus Disease in human populations.  Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, 2016: 29 pages, Article ID 9352725,  https://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/9352725
  17. Ngonghala CN, Teboh-Ewungkem MI and Ngwa GA. Observance of Period-doubling Bifurcation and Chaos in an Autonomous ODE Model for Malaria with Vector Demography. Theoretical Ecology. 9(3): 337–351 (2016). DOI: 10.1007/s12080-016-0293-0
  18. Teboh-Ewungkem MI, Prosper O., Gurski K, Manore CA, Peace A, Feng Z (2015).  Intermittent Preventive Treatment (IPT) and the Spread of Drug Resistant Malaria. In: Jackson T., Radunskaya A. (eds) Applications of Dynamical Systems in Biology and Medicine. The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, vol 158. 2015 Springer, New York, NY, DOI 10.10007/978-1-4939-2782-1_9.  Check here.
  19. Agusto FB, Teboh-Ewungkem MI, and Gumel AB (2015). Mathematical assessment of the effect of traditional beliefs and customs on the transmission dynamics of the 2014 Ebola outbreaks. BMC Med. 13(1): 96. doi: 10.1186/s12916-015-0318-3
  20. Ngonghala CN, Teboh-Ewungkem MI and Ngwa GA (2014). Persistent oscillations and backward bifurcation in a malaria model with varying human and mosquito populations: implications for control. Journal of Mathematical Biology 70(7):1581-622.  DOI: 10.1007/s00285-014-0804-9
  21. Teboh-Ewungkem MI, Mohammed-Awel J, Baliraine FN and Duke-Sylvester SM (2014). The effect of intermittent preventive treatment on anti-malarial drug resistance spread in areas with population movement. Malaria Journal 13:428 (2014). doi:10.1186/1475-2875-13-428 .
  22. Ngwa GA,Wankah TT, Fomboh-Nforba MY, Ngonghala CN and Teboh-Ewungkem MI (2014). On a Reproductive stage-structured model for the population dynamics of the malaria vector. Bull Math Biol, 76(10): 2476-2516.  DOI 10.1007/s11538-014-0021-0.
  23. 23.Teboh-Ewungkem MI, Ngwa GA and Ngonghala CN (2013). Models and proposals for malaria: a Review, Mathematical Population Studies, 20: 57-81. doi:10.1080/08898480.2013.777237.
  24. 24.Teboh-Ewungkem MI (2013), Editorial: Malaria Models, Mathematical Population Studies, 20: 55-56.
  25. Teboh-Ewungkem MI and Wang M (2012), Male fecundity and optimal gametocyte sex ratios for Plasmodium falciparum during incomplete fertilization. J Theor Biol 307: 183–192.
  26. Ngonghala CN, Ngwa GA and Teboh-Ewungkem MI (2012), Periodic oscillations and backward bifurcation in a model for the dynamics of malaria transmission. Math Biosci, 240: 45-62.
  27. Nourridine S, Teboh-Ewungkem MI, Ngwa GA (2011), A mathematical model of the population dynamics of disease transmitting vectors with spatial consideration, J Biol Dyn, 5(4): 335-365.
  28. Teboh-Ewungkem MI and Yuster T (2010). A within-vector mathematical model of Plasmodium falciparum and implications of incomplete fertilization on optimal gametocyte sex ratio, J Theor Biol, 264(2): 273-86.
  29. Teboh-Ewungkem MI, Podder CN and Gumel AB (2010). Mathematical study of the role of gametocytes and an imperfect vaccine on malaria transmission dynamics, Bull Math. Biol, 72 (1): 63-93.
  30. Teboh-Ewungkem MI, Yuster T and Newman NH (2010). A mathematical model of the within – vector dynamics of the plasmodium falciparum protozoan parasite, In Infectious Disease Modelling Research Progress, (J.M. Tchuenche and C. Chiyaka, eds), Nova Science Publishers, pp. 177-199.
  31. Erickson AH, Wise A, Fleming S, Baird M, Lateef Z, Molinaro A, Teboh-Ewungkem MI and De Pillis L (2009). A preliminary mathematical model of skin dendritic cell trafficking and induction of T cell immunity. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems- Series B (DCDS B), 12 (2): 323 - 336.
  32. Teboh-Ewungkem MI (2009). Malaria Control: The role of local communities as seen through a mathematical model in a changing population-Cameroon, In Advances in Disease Epidemiology, (J.M. Tchuenche and Z. Mukandavire, eds), Nova Science Publishers, pp. 103-140 (2009).
  33. Contenza T, Cox M, Novak J, Teboh-Ewungkem MI, Vanderschoot M, Teaching Module-Modeling Biological Populations, DIMACS Educational Module Series, 8 (4): 1-27 (2008).  http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Publications/Modules/Module08-4/dimacs08-4b.pdf .
  34. Teboh-Ewungkem MI, The mathematics of oxygen and substrate diffusion: Mathematical analysis of oxygen, myoglobin-facilitated oxygen and substrate diffusion within an interacting multi-capillary system in skeletal muscle. VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, ISBN 978-3-639-09777-1, (2008), 156 pages.
  35. Teboh-Ewungkem MI and Salathe EP (2006). The role of countercurrent exchange in preventing hypoxia in skeletal muscle, Bull Math Biol, 68 (8): 2191-2204.
  36. Teboh-Ewungkem MI and Salathe EP (2005). Substrate diffusion from an array of capillaries with co-current and counter-current flow, Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 42: 17-30.

Edited Books

  1. Miranda Teboh-Ewungkem, Gideon A. Ngwa (eds). Infectious Diseases and Our Planet. Mathematics of Planet Earth, vol 7. Springer, Cham. eBook ISBN 978-3-030-50826-5, DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-50826-5, Hardcover ISBN 978-3-030-50825-8 Series ISSN 2524-4264.
  2. Bahar Acu, Donatella Danielli, Marta Lewicka, Arati Pati, Saraswathy RV, Miranda Teboh-Ewungkem, Advances in Mathematical Sciences (Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) Series 21, 2020.  eBook ISBN 978-3-030-42687-3, DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-42687-3, Hardcover ISBN 978-3-030-42686-6  Series ISSN 364-5733

Submitted Manuscripts

  1. G.A. Ngwa, M.I. Teboh-Ewungkem and J.A. Njongwe. Mathematical modelling of the interplay between community action, climatic factors and the dynamics of formation of mosquito breeding sites.
  2. Investigating the Impact of Multiple Feeding Attempts on Mosquito Dynamics via Mathematical Models. Bime M. Ghakanyuy, Miranda I. Teboh-Ewungkem, Kristan A. Schneider, Gideon A. Ngwa
  3. Roth, SM, Teboh-Ewungkem MI and Li M.  Predicting suitability of regions for Zika outbreaks with zero-inflated models trained using climate data. Revising to Resubmit.

Manuscripts in Preparation for Submission for Peer Review

  1. Climatic effects in a malaria model with IPT. Olivia Prosper, Carrie A. Manore, Angela L. Peace, Katharine Gurski, Miranda I. Teboh-Ewungkem, Zhilan Feng O
  2. Development of a Mathematical Model with Transgene for a Mosquito Population: Part I: Model Analysis without Transgene showing instability of the trivial steady state, Bime Markdonal Ghakanyuy, G.A. Ngwa, Miranda I. Teboh-Ewungkem.
  3. The Role of Mosquito Birth Rate and Hysteresis Effects in a Mathematical Model for Malaria with Vector Demography Emphasized. Co-authors: Miranda I. Teboh-Ewungkem G.A. Ngwa and C. N. Ngonghala.
  4. COVID-19: Reinfection Model. Loyce Kayanula, Patience Bwanu I., George Kamanga, Sulyman Iyanda, Arlinda Sadiku, Nessma Adil M. Y., Sandy F. Kwamou, Miranda I. Teboh-Ewungkem, Gideon A. Ngwa, Fabian Schwarzenberger, Franka Baaske, Martin Eichner, and Kristan A. Schneider.

CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS/PROCEEDINGS

KEYNOTE/INVITED ADDRESSES

  • The Alamo Symposium: 43rd Conference in Real Analysis and Application, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, USA, June 24-29, 2019. Title: Complex Dynamics observed in a Mosquito-Centered Demographic Mathematical Model for Malaria.
  • BIOMATH 2017 international conference on Mathematical Methods and Models in Biosciences, Skukuza Camp in National Kruger Park, South Africa, June 25-30, 2017. Title: A Mathematical Model of an Immune-Suppressed Within Human-Host Model of the Dynamics of the Plasmodium Falciparum Parasite.
  • PASSHEMA (Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education Mathematics Association) Annual Conference, Clarion University of Pennsylvania, April 19 and 20th2013. Title: Modeling and Control of Malaria:
    The impact of the Anopheles mosquito lifestyle, feeding and reproductive habits.
  • SAMSA (Southern Africa Mathematical Sciences Association) Conference, Gaborone, Botswana, November 29th-December 4th2010. Title: A new way to model the dynamics of malaria transmission showing natural occurring oscillations. 

OTHER INVITED PRESENTATIONS

         Invited Seminar/Colloquial Presentations
         2019-Present

  • University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, Department of Mathematics Colloquium. October 14th, 2021. Title:  TBD.
  • University of Massachusetts Amherst, Boston, MA, Mathematical and Computational Biology Seminar. March 8th, 2021. Title: Malaria and Mathematics as Viewed from the Lens of the Transmitting Mosquitoes.
  • West Chester University, Department of Mathematics, PA, Spring 2021 Mathematics Colloquium. January 27th, 2021. Title:  Mathematics Plays an Important Role in Understanding Complex Diseases: The Case of Malaria and the Potential Use of Transmission Blocking Vaccines in Fighting It’
  • Virginia Tech, Department of Mathematics, VA, Mathematical Biology Seminar. November 18th, 2020. Title:  Mosquitoes and Diseases: A Mathematical Study of a Complex Problem involving Female Anopheles Mosquitoes and Malaria.
  • Hofstra University, Department of Mathematics, PA, Hofstra math department seminar. November 11th, 2020. Title:  A Mathematical Study of a Complex Disease, Malaria, with Focus on the Within Mosquito Life Cycle.
  • Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Department of Mathematics, Cauerstrasse 1191058 Erlangen, Germany, Colloquium. October 2nd, 2020. Title:  A Multistage Mosquito-Centered Mathematical Model for Malaria which accounts for Mosquito Gonotrophic Cycle Contributions.
  • African Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) Cameroon, Limbe, Cameroon, AIMS Colloquium. June 4th, 2019. Title:  Mosquito Gonotrophic Cycle: Using Mathematics to quantify their effect on Mosquito Populations and Malaria Transmission Dynamics.

        2014 - 2018

  • University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series, October 30th, 2018. Title:  Malaria – A Complex Disease Investigated from a Mathematical Perspective.
  • African Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) Cameroon, Limbe, Cameroon, AIMS Colloquium. January 16th, 2018. Title:  Understanding Vector Borne Diseases - A Mathematical Perspective for the Case of Malaria.
  • Millersville University, Millersville University, PA 17551; Millersville University and Franklin & Marshall College Joint Colloquium. November 30th, 2017. Title:  Understanding Vector Borne Diseases - A Mathematical Perspective for the case of Malaria.
  • University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, Department of Mathematics Colloquium. November 16th, 2017. Title:  Understanding Vector Borne Diseases - A Mathematical Perspective for the case of Malaria.
  • Howard University, Washington DC, Department of Mathematics Colloquium. April 14, 2017. Title:  A Mathematical Model of the Immuno-pathogenesis of the within human-host dynamics of the plasmodium falciparum parasite – Part I: Impact of recruitment.
  • Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, Department of Biological Science Colloquium. April 7, 2016. Title:  A Mathematical investigation of the role of IPT (Intermittent Preventive Treatment) in Averting Malaria-related Disease Deaths in Children as well as in Accelerating the Spread of Anti-Malarial Drug Resistance.
  • Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, Mathematics Department Colloquium, March 6, 2015. Title: The dynamics of malaria transmitting mosquitoes and their impact on the disease malaria-A mathematical study.
  • Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, Biomathematics Seminar, May 6, 2014. Title: Periodic Oscillations and Backward Bifurcation in an unforced ODE Model for Malaria.

        2009 - 2013

  • Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, Department of Mathematics colloquium. October 2, 2013. Title: Complex Dynamics in a Model for the Vector-Borne Disease Malaria.
  • New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), NJ, Department of Mathematics, April 2, 2013. Title:  Complex Dynamics in a Model for the Vector-Borne Disease Malaria.
  • Dartmouth College Shapiro Visitor and Presenter, New Hampshire, March 2, 2010. Title: A within-mosquito mathematical model of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum and some implications for malaria control.
  • NIH (National Institute of Health) Scientific Seminar Series, Bethesda, MD, January 27, 2009. Title:  Mathematical modeling of the within-vector dynamics of Plasmodium falciparum: single and mixed strains.
  • Morgan State University Seminar Series Guest Speaker, Dixon Research Center, Morgan State University, March 1, 2007. Title: A mathematical model to study the impact of the recovery rate on the dynamics and transmission of malaria in a changing population: Case of Cameroon.

2004 - 2008

  • Lafayette College BioConnections Speaker, Lafayette College, October 30, 2006. Title: A mathematical model of a vector-borne infectious disease – Malaria.
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, January 2004. Title: Counter-current and co-current flow of oxygen and substrate transport in a multi-capillary system in skeletal muscles.

2001 - 2003

  • Lehigh University, Mathematical Biology Colloquium, December, 2003. Title:  Malaria dynamics in an endemic region.
  • Moravian College Seminar Series, May, 2003. Title: Malaria Epidemics.
  • Lehigh University, Graduate Student Colloquium, January, 2002. Title: Transport of oxygen and substrate with and without the inclusion of a facilitator across the capillary in the microcirculation.
  • University of Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, Guest Speaker, August, 2001. Title: The dynamics and transmission of malaria.

Invited Conference Presentations

       2019-Present

  • SMB (Society for Mathematical Biology) Annual Meeting, Virtual Meeting, June 13-17, 2021. Title: Using Continuous-time Systems of Non-Linear Ordinary Differential Equations to study Removal of Mosquito-Breeding Site Density Under Community Action and Temperature Effects.
  • Southern Georgia Mathematics Conference (SGMC) Virtual Meeting, April 2-3, 2021. Title: Mathematics and the Malaria Problem: Understanding the Within-Mosquito Parasite Dynamics and Possible Exploitation for Transmission Blocking Vaccines.
  • Joint Mathematics Meeting (JMM) Virtual Meeting, January 6-9, 2021. Title: Supporting Mathematics in Developing Countries: Case of Collaboration with Dr Gideon Ngwa and the University of Buea, Cameroon.
  • SIAM Life Science 2020 Meeting, River Side, CA, June 30th (June 11th – July 2nd) 2020, In Mathematics of Infectious Diseases and our Planet: Talks Honoring the efforts by Levin, Gross and Hallam in organizing the ecology workshops in the 80’s and 90’s - Part I of II (68591). Title: The Impact of Gonotrophic Cycles on a Malaria Model. Virtual Talk, June 30th 2020.
  • JMM (Joint Mathematics Meeting) Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, January 15th (15 – 17) 2020, Title: A Vector-Borne Disease Model with Non-Exponentially Distributed Infection and Treatment Stages.
  • SMB (Society for Mathematical Biology) Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, July, 22-26, 2019, Title: Capturing the Gonotrophic Cycle Contributions in a Mosquito Demographic focused Mathematical Model for Malaria.
  • ICIAM 2019: 9th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Valencia, Spain, July, 15-19, 2019. Titles:

Talk 1: A Mathematical Study of a Within-Host Malaria Parasite Dynamics Model as it relates to Disease Morbidity.

Talk II: The role of mosquito gonotrophic cycle in the dynamics of mosquito populations and consequently malaria transmission dynamics.

  • CMPD5: The Fifth International Conference on Computational and Mathematical Population Dynamics (CMPD5), Fort Lauderdale, Florida, May 19-24, 2019. Title: Within-host malaria parasite dynamics- A mathematical study
  • AWM (Association for Women in Mathematics) Research Symposium at Rice University, Rice University, Houston, TX, April 6-7, 2019. Title: Intermittent Preventive Treatment (IPT) and Antimalarial Drug Resistance Spread.
  • AMS (American Mathematical Society) Spring Central and Western Joint Sectional Meeting, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, March 22-24, 2019 (Friday - Sunday). Title: Reproductive gains in a stage-structured model for the dynamics of malaria transmission with human treatment and adult vector demographics.

2014 – 2018

  • 6th International Conference On Mathematical Biological（6th ICMB), Beijing, PR,China, June 22-25, 2018 . Title: A mathematical investigation of the immuno-pathogenesis of the within-human-host malaria parasite dynamic.
  • SMB (Society for Mathematical Biology) Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, July 17, 2017. Title: The impact of recruitment on the dynamics of an immune-suppressed within human-host mathematical model of the Plasmodium falciparum parasite.
  • 44th Annual Mathematics Conference: Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems, Miami -Ohio University, Ohio, September 23-24, 2016. Title: Hysteresis and Chaos in a class of unforced ordinary differential Equation Malaria Models with vector demography.
  • 2014 SIAM Life Science Annual Meeting, North Carolina, August 4th -7th, 2014.    

                    Title 1: Vector Dynamics and its Impact on the Vector Borne Disease Malaria, (In the session: Mathematical Models in Biology and Epidemiology-Part II of II).

                    Title 2: Application of P. falciparum gametocyte sex ratios via competitive and non-competitive strategies: the evolutionary implications, (In the session: New Interventions and Recent Progress on Modeling Malaria).

2009 - 2013

  • 9th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, Orlando, Florida, USA, July 1 - 5, 2012. I received two separate invitations:  
           Title 1: Heterogeneity in the infectiousness of humans in the dynamics of malaria transmission and control.

    Title 2: Optimization of P. falciparum gametocyte sex ratios via competitive and non-competitive strategies: the evolutionary implications.

  • ICIAM 2011: 7th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July, 18-22, 2011. Title: Role of heterogeneity in infectiousness of humans on the dynamics of malaria transmission and control.
  • CAARMS17 and IPAM: 17th Annual Conference for African American Researchers in the Mathematical Science, IPAM, Los Angeles, June, 1-4, 2011. Title: Hopf and backward bifurcations in a new SIS malaria model.
  • Blackwell-Tapia Conference, MBI, Ohio State University, November 6, 2010. Title:  A new SIS malaria model with vector demography showing natural occurring oscillations. 
  • AMS (American Mathematical Society) -NAM (National Association of Mathematics) Speaker, San Antonio, January 12-15, 2006. Title: A uniformly valid composite solution for oxygen distribution, in skeletal muscle, within multiple capillaries and axial diffusion effects.

2004 - 2008

  • CAARMS11 and IPAM: 11th Annual Conference for African American Researchers in the Mathematical Science, IPAM, Los Angeles, June, 21-24, 2005. Title:  Applying a multiple capillary substrate and oxygen transport model to drug targeting strategies for cancer chemotherapy.
  • International Conference on Differential Equations and Applications in Mathematical Biology, Nanaimo, British Columbia, July 18-23rd, 2004. Title:  Mathematical analysis of co-current and counter current flow in tissue capillary exchange.

Invited Workshop Presentations

  • (Invited) AIMS Workshop on Identifiability Problems in Systems Biology from August 19-23, 2019, AIM (American Institute of Mathematics), San Jose, California.    Presentation Title Vector-Borne Diseases with Focus on Vector Demography: Case of the Disease Malaria.
  •  (Invited) Joint workshop of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) and the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst), in Mittweida, Germany, August 20-26, 2018. Workshop topic: Mosquito Dynamics: Kickoff Meeting.   Presentation Title: Immuno-pathogenesis of the within-host malaria parasite dynamics.

 

Other Invited Presentations

  • CAMLEV (Cameroonians and Friends of Cameroon in the Lehigh Valley) Bi-monthly meetings. Title:  Educating CAMLEV on EBOLA. November 08, 2014.
  • MAAD (Mathematical Adventures and Diversion), Department of Mathematics, Lafayette College, March 30, 2011. Title:  Can oscillations be achieved in a simple SIS malaria model without external seasonal forcing or delay?
  • Rotary Club Presenter, Pomfret Club, 33 South 4th Street, Easton, PA, March 18, 2010. Title:  My Rotary Funded Visit to the University of Buea, Cameroon during May-July 2010.
  • AISCAW (Association for the Improvement of the Status of the Cameroonian Women) open day, University of Buea, May 22nd 2009. Title:  Gender Sensitivity - the key to Sustainable Development: In Particular, Balancing Career, Family, and Excellence.
  • Kutztown University Sonia Kovalevsky High School Mathematics Day, Guest Speaker, Kutztown, University, January 11, 2008. Titles:  Part 1: Mathematics: How females fare and how determination and hard work can overcome obstacles encountered; Part 2: A mathematical model to study the impact of the recovery rate on the dynamics and transmission of malaria in a changing population: Case of Cameroon.
  • Lehigh University, Introduction to Biomedical Engineering and Mathematical Physiology classes, spring 2003, spring 2004.  Malaria Epidemic.

 

CONTRIBUTED CONFERENCE/CONTRIBUTED WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS

      2019-Present

  • eSMB 2020 Virtual Meeting, August 17-20, 2020. Title: “Mathematical Assessment of the Impact of Human-Antibodies on Sporogony during the Within-Mosquito Dynamics of Plasmodium Falciparum Parasites.”

2014-2018

  • 10TH European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (ECMTB) and the Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB), University of Nottingham, UK, July 11-15, 2016. Title: “Hysteresis and Chaos in a Class of Unforced Ordinary Differential Equation Malaria Models with Vector Demography.”
  • 11th AIMS International Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, Hyatt Regency Orlando, Orlando, FL, USA, July 1 - 5, 2016, Special Session 47: Mathematical Contribution towards the understanding of the dynamics of the 2014 Ebola Epidemic in West Africa. Title: “A Mathematical model with quarantine states for the dynamics of Ebola Virus Disease in human populations.”
  • Workshop on Predictive Modeling and Stochastic Analysis with Applications to Biology and Finance, University of Buea, Cameroon, May 23-25 2016. Title: “A Mathematical investigation of the role of IPT (Intermittent Preventive Treatment) in averting malaria-related disease deaths in children as well as in accelerating the spread of anti-malarial drug resistance.”

2009-2013

  • IMA (Institute for Mathematics and its Applications) Special Workshop: WhAM! A Research Collaboration Workshop for Women in Applied Mathematics, Dynamical Systems with Applications to Biology and Medicine, September 9-13, 2013. Title: Intermittent Preventive Treatment (IPT) and the spread of drug resistance to malaria.
  • SMB (Society for Mathematical Biology) Annual Meeting, Arizona, June 10-13, 2013. Title: The role of movement on the spread of drug resistant malaria during the use of Intermittent Preventive Treatment (IPT).
  • AMS (American Mathematical Society) Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans, LA, January 6-9, 2011. Title: A mathematical  model  to  highlight  the importance  of  vector  demography  in  malaria dynamics  and  control.
  • SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) Annual Meeting (AN09), Denver, July 6-10, 2009 (Coauthors: Thomas Yuster, Nathaniel Newman*). Title: A mathematical model of the within -vector dynamics of the Plasmodium falciparum protozoan parasite.
  • AMS (American Mathematical Society) Joint Mathematics Meetings, Washington, DC, January 5-8, 2009. Mathematical model to quantify the impact of the recovery rate on the dynamics and transmission of malaria in a changing population: Case of Cameroon. Abstract: http://www.ams.org/amsmtgs/2110_abstracts/1046-92-714.pdf ).

2004-2008

  • SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) Annual Meeting, New Orleans, July 11-15, 2005. Title: Effects of axial diffusion (diffusion in the tissue in the direction parallel to the capillaries) on several interacting capillaries in skeletal muscles.
  • SMB (Society for Mathematical Biology) Annual Meeting, Ann Arbor, July 25-28, 2004. Title: Co-current and counter current flow of oxygen and substrate transport from capillaries to tissue.

2001 - 2003

  • SMB (Society for Mathematical Biology) Annual Meeting, Dundee, Scotland, 6-9 August 2003. Title: Mathematical analysis of oxygen and substrate transport in a multi-capillary system, in skeletal muscle.

POSTER

  • IMA (Institute for Mathematics and its Applications) Career Workshop on Minorities and Applied Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 22-24, 2005. Title:  Oxygen distribution in multiple capillaries in skeletal muscles with axial diffusion.

 

OTHER CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ATTENDED

  • (Invited) AIMS Workshop on Identifiability problems in systems biology from August 19-23, 2019, AIM (American Institute of Mathematics), San Jose, California.
  • (Invited) Joint workshop of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) and the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst), in Berlin, Germany, August 20-26, 2018. Workshop topic: Mosquito Dynamics: Kickoff Meeting.
  • (Invited) Joint workshop of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) and the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG), in Limbe, Cameroon, 20th - 24th February 2017. Workshop topic: Mathematics against malaria: a holistic approach.
  • AMS (American Mathematical Society) Joint Mathematics Meetings, Baltimore, MD, January 15-18, 2014.
  • 7th Biannual Blackwell-Tapia Conference, at the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM), November 9-10, 2012, Providence, RI.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT RELATED ACTIVITIES

2019-Present

  • MSRI's 2021 African Diaspora Joint Mathematics Workshop (ADJOINT), Using Decision Modeling to Personalize Policy in Complex Human-Centered Problems (Group leader - Professor Julie Ivy, NC State), June 21 to July 2, 2021.
  • Virtual AIMS SQuaRE (Structured Quartet Research Ensembles) on: Linking pharmacokinetics to epidemiological models of vector-borne diseases and drug resistance (Partial Year 3). June 6-11, 2021, Virtual.
  • Virtual AIMS SQuaRE (Structured Quartet Research Ensembles) on: Linking pharmacokinetics to epidemiological models of vector-borne diseases and drug resistance (Year 2). June 9-16, 2020, Virtual.
  • Los Alamos NM and University of New Mexico in Albuquerque Collaborative Visit: Spent 1 week visiting with my collaborator at Los Alamos National Lab and a day at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque with a new collaboration, January 5th-11th 2020.
  • AIMS SQuaRE (Structured Quartet Research Ensembles) on: Linking pharmacokinetics to epidemiological models of vector-borne diseases and drug resistance (Year 2). May 15-18, 2019, AIM (American Institute of Mathematics), San Jose, California.

     2014-2018

  • DAAD-AIMS Mosquito Dynamics Project Kick-Off Meeting, Mittweida, Germany, 20th - 26th August 2018.
  • Malaria Modeling Working Group Meeting: Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Science Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria South Africa, May 8th-15th, 2018.
  • AIMS SQuaRE (Structured Quartet Research Ensembles) on: Intermittent preventive treatment and the spread of drug resistant malaria part II. October 17– 21, 2016, AIM (American Institute of Mathematics), San Jose, California.
  • Malaria Working Group, University of Buea, Cameroon, May 25-27, 2016. Within Host dynamics of malaria.
  • WhAM! Malaria IPT Working Group Meeting, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, March 3-5 2016.
  • AIMS SQuaRE (Structured Quartet Research Ensembles) on: Intermittent preventive treatment and the spread of drug resistant malaria. November 2 - 6, 2015, AIM (American Institute of Mathematics), San Jose, California.
  • WhAM! Malaria Group Meeting, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, January 2014.

2009-2013

  • IMA Special Workshop: WhAM! A Research Collaboration Workshop for Women in Applied Mathematics, Dynamical Systems with Applications to Biology and Medicine, September 9-13, 2013.
  • Minicourse at the Joint Mathematics Meeting: A dynamical systems approach to the differential equations course. Presented by: Paul Blanchard and Robert Devaney of Boston University, January 5th and 7th, 2012.
  • CITLS Program- Using Extant Data Sets for Class Projects. Lafayette College, Informal Panel discussion. March 6, 2012.
  • Problem Based Learning (PBL) workshop, Lafayette College, June 28-30, 2010.
  • NIMBioS Tutorial - Optimal control and optimization for biologists, University of Tennessee, December 15-17, 2009.

2004-2008

  • Workshop on: The application of mathematics to biomedical problems, University of Otago, New Zealand, December, 17-19, 2007.
  • Workshop on: Opportunities in mathematical biology for under-represented groups, Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI) facilities, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, March 23-25, 2007.
  • Reconnect Satellite Conference 2006 at Morgan State University: Simple and complex discrete-time population models in ecology and epidemiology, Morgan State University, MD.  A workshop on Integration of Research and Education, http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/reconnect/Morgan/ , July 9 - 15, 2006.
  • Workshop on: The modeling of cancer progression and immunotherapy, American institute of Mathematics (AIMS), Palo Alto, California, http://www.aimath.org/ARCC, December 12-16, 2005.

PANELIST/DISCUSSANT

  • Panelist: Kutztown University Sonia Kovalevsky High School Mathematics Day, Kutztown, January 11, 2008
  • Panelist: AMS Joint Mathematics Meeting: Mathematical Association of America Panel Discussion on “Mathematics and Mathematicians in Emerging Nations”, New Orleans, January 5, 2007.
  • Discussant: Was one of 25 invited discussants at the American Mathematical Society’s (AMS) Committee on Meetings and Conferences (CoMC) Focus Group, AMS Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans, LA, January 5-8, 2007.

ORGANIZER

Conference

  • Third Buea International Conference on the Mathematical Science, Cameroon, University of Buea, Cameroon, April 30-May 3rd, 2013.
  • First Buea International Conference on the Mathematical Science, Cameroon, University of Buea, Cameroon, May 12-14, 2009.

Workshops/Summer Schools

  • School on Stochastic Analysis, Financial and Actuarial Mathematics with Applications, University of Buea, Cameroon, April 22-May 3rd, 2013.  (1 of  5 Co-Organizers)
  • Malaria Modeling and Control, NIMBioS (National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis), Tennessee, USA, June 15-17, 2011.  (1 of  3 Co-Organizers)
  • First Cameroon Based International Workshop on Mathematical Biology, University of Buea, Cameroon, May 15-17, 2009.  (1 of  2 Co-Organizers)

Minisymposium

OTHER CONFERENCES ATTENDED (NOT YET MENTIONED ABOVE)

  • AMS Joint Mathematics Meeting, Boston, January 6, 2012.
  • AMS Joint Mathematics Meeting, New Orleans Marriott and Sheraton, January 5, 2007.
  • AMS Conference, Baltimore Convention Center, MD, January 2003.
  • MAA Fall Meeting (EPADEL), Lehigh University, October 2001.
  • The African Mathematical Union (AMU) conference on the applications of mathemat­ics, University of Yaoundé, Cameroon, 1997.

GRANTS

  • NSF DMS  – Mathematical Biology, 2012, PI, Pending.
  • NSF 10-578 Grant (conference proposal 1261662), 2012, Funded, for $40,004, PI.
  • NIMBioS (National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis), Workshop Grant “Malaria Modeling”, June 2011, PI (with two other Co-PI’s), Funded.
  • AWM-NSF Travel Grant, December 2010, Funded: $2000.
  • NSF 04-035 Grant (OISE-International Plan and Workshop), 2009, $40,535
  • SMB World Outreach (WOC) Financial Support of Other Meetings Organized by World SMB Members, 2009, $3000.
  • Rotary Grant for University Teachers, 3 months grant, to be a guest Lecturer at the University of Buea (May to early July), 2009, $13,000.
  • African Mathematics Millennium Science Initiative (AMMSI) grant, 2009, $4000.
  • Lindback Foundation Career Enhancement Minority Junior Faculty Grant, 2009, $14,911.
  • Mobile Telephone Network (MTN) Cameroon, May 2009, approx. $8,693 (which was 4,000,000.00 CFA) and Internet Service, to sponsor the conference and workshop.
  • ARC Advanced Study Grant, Lafayette College, 2009 ($978).
  • Awarded an Academic Research Committee (ARC) Advanced Study Grant, Lafayette College, January of 2009, $1400: To be a short term guest researcher at the National Institute of Health (NIH), in Bethesda, MD, January 5-31, 2009.
  • ARC Advanced Study Grant, Lafayette College, December 2007, To attend a Mathematical Biology workshop in New Zealand. ($2100).
  • NSF-AWM Mentoring Travel Grant, July 2004, $4000
  • SMB Travel Grant to other Conferences, 2004,  $500
  • Reidler Grant, Lehigh University, 2003, $1,300
  • SMB Landahl Student Travel Grant, 2003, $1000
  • Travel Grants: Lafayette College Travel Grants, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009; Lehigh University Graduate Student Travel Grant, 2002.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND MEMBERSHIPS

Memberships (Past and Present)

  • Member of the Association for Women in Mathematics, AWM.
  • Member of the American Mathematics Society, AMS.
  • Member of the Society for Mathematical Biology, SMB.
  • Member of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematicians, SIAM.
  • Member of the Mathematical Association of America MAA.
  • Member of the Honor Society for International students and Scholars-Beta Pi Chapter of Phi Beta Delta

Peer Reviewer

  • Electronic Journal of Differential Equation
  • Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering
  • Mathematical Biosciences
  • African Diaspora Journal of Mathematics
  • International Journal of Applied Mathematics & Statistics (IJAMAS)

Grant Reviewer

  • (Invited) National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences:  2010 NSF Conferences and Workshops in the Mathematical Sciences Grant Reviewer, August-October 2010.
  • (Invited) National Science Foundation (NSF) Math Bio Panel Grants Proposal Reviewer, March 29-30, 2010.
  • (Invited) National Science Foundation (NSF) Math Bio Panel Grants Proposal Reviewer, April 6-7, 2009.

Editor/Referee

  • Associate Editor: International Journal of Applied Mathematics & Statistics (IJAMAS) 2006-present.
  • Assistant Editor and Referee: International Journal of Applied Mathematics & Statistics (IJAMAS) 2005-2006.

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES INVOLVING STUDENT

EXCEL STUDENTS

  • Ha Nguyen (‘13),  EXCEL Student, Lafayette College, Summer 2011, Fall 2011, Interim 2012, Spring 2012
    Poster presentations and Talks by Ha Nguyen

     

    • Talk: 2012 JMM Meeting, AMS Special Session on Undergraduate Research, Worcester, MA, April 9, 2011; Title: Optimization of P. falcipalrumgametocyte sex ratios via competitive and non-competitive strategies: The evolutionary implications.
    • Poster: Interdisciplinary Research Talk Series by students & for students, Lafayette College, September 8, 2011, Gametocyte sex ratio determination strategies and evolutionary implications.
  • Miao Wang (‘12),  Lindback/EXCEL Student, Lafayette College, Interim 2009, 2010, Summer 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, 2011
    Talks by Miao Wang

     

    • 2011 Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session on Undergraduate Research, Worcester, MA, April 9, 2011; Title: A Mathematical Perspective: How male fecundity affects the Optimal Gametocyte Sex Ratio of Plasmodium Falciparum during incomplete fertilization,
    • Interdisciplinary Research Talk Series by students & for students, Lafayette College, November 17, 2010, Title: A Mathematical Perspective: How male fecundity affects the Optimal Gametocyte Sex Ratio of Plasmodium Falciparum during incomplete fertilization.
    • WITS (What I did This Summer), Lafayette College Mathematics department seminar series, fall 2010, Title: A Mathematical Perspective: How male fecundity affect the Optimal Gametocyte Sex Ratio of Plasmodium Falciparumduring incomplete fertilization.
  • Nathaniel H. Newman (’09),  Excel Student, Lafayette College, Summer 2008, Fall 2008, Interim 2008, Spring 2009
    Talks by Nathaniel Newman

     

    • WITS (What I did This Summer), Lafayette College Mathematics department seminar series, Fall, fall 2008, Title: A Mathematical Model of the Sporogony Cycle of Plasmodium falciparum to Determine Malaria Infectivity of Mosquitoes.

HONORS THESIS STUDENT

  • Jiaqi Li (’12), Fall 2011-Spring 2012
    Thesis Title: Survival Analysis: A Theoretical Understanding and its Application to Breast Cancer

Honors Thesis Committee member

  • Lafayette College, for Martha Osier, Lafayette College, 2006: Thesis title: Debt relief in Africa.

LEADERSHIP/TEAMWORK

  • Leadership team chairperson, Presbyterian Secondary School (PSS), Mankon, class of 1991 yahoo groups leadership team committee, 2007-present.
  • Moderator/Founder, PSS Mankon class of 1991 yahoo groups, 2001-present.
  • Assistant Senior Prefect (Female leader, assisting the male leader, of about 600 students), PSS Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon, 1990-1991.
  • Class Leader,PSS Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon, 1989-1990.

[1]Lafayette Undergraduate Excel student

[2]Names are arranged alphabetically