POST SECONDARY EDUCATION
1969 B.S. Math (summa cum laude), Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA
1970 M.S. Math, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
1975 Ph.D. Math (Thesis adviser: Mahlon M. Day), University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
PROFESSIONAL ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
1975-1977 Assistant Professor, Lake Forest College , Lake Forest, IL
1977-1978 Assistant Professor, Miami University, Oxford, OH
1979-1983 Associate Professor, Miami University, Oxford, OH
1984-1998 Professor, Miami University, Oxford, OH
1999- Professor and Chair, Miami University, Oxford, OH
PROFESSIONAL NON-ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
May 1995 - July 1996, Operations Manager, Integrated Supply Division,
Ferguson Enterprises, Inc., Cincinnati, OH, New Orleans, LA, and Memphis, TN
(during a personal leave from Miami University)
MEMBERSHIP in PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
American Mathematical Society
Mathematical Association of America
RESEARCH INTERESTS
My research area is functional analysis, more specifically, the geometry of Banach spaces.
During the first ten years after completing my graduate studies, most of my work concerned
a variety of rotundity and smoothness properties in general Banach spaces. Since then,
my work has focused on the geometry and extreme point structure of various classes of
function spaces and their duals.
TEACHING BACKGROUND AT MIAMI
I have taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses, including: business mathematics,
precalculus, calculus, linear algebra, differential equations, optimization, number theory, real analysis,
measure theory, and functional analysis.
