About
I am a firm believer in the notion that the more you are transformed by your education, the more you receive from it. I believe this because I’ve lived it. College is not simply about academics and over my four years at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth I have thoroughly integrated myself into the campus community. My extracurriculars have included being a member of the alternative theatre company 20 Cent Fiction for four years, two of which I served as treasurer, and participating in many of their productions both on stage and behind the scenes as a Director. I have been a tutor at the Writing and Reading Center for three years where I have achieved Level 3 Tutor Certification and have learned invaluable lessons about patience, grace under pressure, and the ability to collaborate with my peers. I have also worked for the school newspaper The Torch in several aspects both writing and as Distribution Manager. I have been involved in campus events with the Gaming Society, Pride Alliance, Theater Company, Concert Tech, and am a member of the UMass Dartmouth chapter of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and the Honors Student Association.
As a participant in the Honors Program, when it came time for me to consider writing an Undergraduate Thesis I made every attempt to find a delicate integration of my love of mathematics and my insatiable appetite for the Middle East. I now work through the Computational Science Training for Undergraduates in the Mathematical Sciences (CSUMS) program sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) where I am currently working to constructing a chosen terrorist network operating in the Middle East and Central Asia. I will then use the principles of Graph Theory, combinatorics, dynamic network analysis, and social network analysis to analyze and glean useful and insightful information about the resulting graph and the human network it represents. My work is being completed under the supervision of both Dr. Dana Fine of the mathematics department, and Dr. Brian Williams of the history department.
