Curriculum Vitae

Ronald W. DeGray, Ph.D.

Education:

B.A., 1960; Mathematics, University of Connecticut

M.A., 1962; Mathematics, University of Connecticut

Ph.D., 1969; Mathematics, Syracuse University

Employment:

Assistant Professor of Mathematics, 1969 - 1974, Utica College of Syracuse University

Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics, 1974 - 1980, Denison University

Assistant Professor of Mathematics, 1981 - 1986, Saint Joseph College

Associate Professor of Mathematics, 1986 - 2004, Saint Joseph College

Faculty Emeritus, June 2004 – Saint Joseph College

Memberships (past and present) in Professional Societies:

• The Mathematical Association of America (MAA); 1981 - present
• The American Mathematics Society (AMS); 1981 - present
• The Society of the Sigma Xi; Associate, Nominated 1962
• Digital Equipment Users Society (DECUS); 1984 - 1995 (Organization Dissolved)
• The Society for Information Management (SIM); 1996 - 2001
• The Association for Computing Machinery National/Hartford (ACM); 1981- 1995
• The Internet Society (ISOC), National/Hartford; 1994 - 2001
• The New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI); 2000 - present

Saint Joseph College Community Service:

• Regular conference participations:
  • AMS/MAA
  • Educause
  • Nercomp – New England Regional Computing Program
• Chair, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, 2001 - 2004
• Acting Chair, Dept of Mathematics, fall 1981 - 1982
• Academic Computing Director, 1981- ca1995
• AX Manager, 1981- ca1995
• Integrating Communications Technologies on College and University Campuses, Sent by President Ryan, Georgia State University, Atlanta, 12 October 1984
• Saint Joseph College Representative to Inauguration of WANG Institute, (sent by President Ryan)
• Special Interest Group on Software Dissemination, Educom annual conference, Austin, 1985
• Educational Policies & Procedures Committee, Chair, 1987, 1988
• Educause Institutional Representative; 1981 - 1999
• Nercomp Institutional Representative; 1995 - 1999
• The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Liaison; 1998 - present
• Teaching, Learning Technology Roundtable (TLTR), SJC and The Hartford Consortium, lecture series; 1997 - present
• Our Common Future, Sr. Claire Markham, Web page overseer; 2002 - 2004
• Tenure and Promotion Committee; ca 1987
• Lewis Lecture Committee, Seymour Pappert/Sherry Turkle lecture; ca 1993
• The Hartford Consortium Academic Technology Committee; 1984 - ca 1994
• Physics Search Committee, Chair, ca1993
• Mathematical Sciences Search Committee, Co-chair, 2002 - 2003
• Information Technology Committee, Co-chair, 1990/91
• Initiated the Hartford Consortium presentation by Edward Tufte held at Saint Joseph college; 1997
• Named and introduced Honorary Doctorate Degree recipient Edward Tufte; Saint Joseph College Commencement, 1999
• Sabbatical Committee; 1999
• Grievance Committee; 1998
• New England Governors rep for Sr. Claire (attendees: R. DeGray, S.Raman, F. Lomano) Burlington, VT
• International Programs Committee; 2000 - 2003
• Diversity Day Committee; 1999 - 2001
• Prime Time Committee; 2002 - 2003
• Core Revision Committee - 2003
• Department of Mathematical Sciences, Chair, 2002, 2003
• New course development for Math Dept, COMP/INTD 105, ‘World Wide Information Networks’, 1995
• New course development for IT concentration, INFT 300; “Systems Thinking”, R. DeGray & Shyamala Raman, 2000
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS) NERCOMP Conference, Holy Cross College, Tuesday, 7 October 2003

Presentations:

· "Technology May Change the Way We Teach and Learn", Kennedy High School, Waterbury, CT. May 1989.

· "Using File Servers (NETLIB) to Teach Numerical Analysis", The Mathematical Association of America, Roger Williams College, Rhode Island, June 1990.

· "Bitnet/Internet - A Resource for Professional Development", The Mathematics Association of America/The American Mathematical Society joint meetings, San Francisco, January 1991

· "Idols of the Classroom: The Implications of System Thinking to Higher Education", EDUCOM’92, Baltimore MD, Fall 1992

· "TopDesk© - A Knowledge Worker Team Support System", New England Section of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), Trinity College, Hartford, CT, Spring 1993

· "The Internet - an Overview", UTECA (United Technologies Engineering Coordination Activities), AN UNBEATABLE COMBINATION, PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY, April 25, 1994, Springfield, MA.

· "Working the Internet", United Technologies Engineering Coordination Activities (UTECA), AN UNBEATABLE COMBINATION, PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY, April 26, 1994, Springfield, MA.

· "The Weakly Efficient Markets Hypothesis and Computerized Investing Topics", Investment SIG of BPMUG, 18 April 1995, Saint Joseph College

· "Developing a Web-Based Interactive Syllabus for An Undergraduate Course in Systems Thinking and Complexity ", Shyamala Raman, Ph.D. and Ronald DeGray, Ph.D. New England Complex Systems Institute/International Conference of Complex Systems (NECSI/ICCS); June 9 - 14, 2002; Nashua, New Hampshire

· "Integrating Technology into the Classroom" ; Shyamala Raman, Ph.D., MBA, Associate Professor of Economics and International Studies Director, International Studies/Programs and R. W. Degray, Ph.D. , Chair and Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences. Faculty Development Day, Tuesday, September 3, 2002, Room 213, McDonough Hall, Saint Joseph College, West Hartford, Connecticut

· "The Interactive Syllabus (Statistics)", The Mathematical Association of America New England Section (MAA/NE) Framingham State College, 22-23 November 2002

· "Interactive Course Syllabus: Preparing Nursing Students for International Health Projects"; Nursing in a Technological World Conference, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia ; 1-4 July 2003

· "Interactive Course Syllabus: Preparing Nursing Students for International Health Projects"; North American Consortium of Nursing and Allied Health (NACNAH) for International Cooperation, Toronto, Canada, 24 October 2003

· “Interactive Course Syllabus: Introductory Statistics”; 15 min presentation accepted, The Mathematical Association of America, (MAA) Phoenix, January 7, 2004

· “Interactive Lesson Plans in Statistics”, short paper accepted, Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)/Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Association (SITE), Atlanta, 1 – 4 March 2004

Publications:

· "Multi-function Graphing Program", Digital Equipment Users Society (DECUS) Software Library, 1985

· "The Internet/BITNET - an Agora for Mathematicians", Focus , Volume 12, Number 1, pp. 15-17, February 1993. The Mathematical Association of America. (MAA)

· "Some Problems for which the Internet is the Solution", ALTNEWS, Applied Learning Technologies in Europe , FIM-Psychologie Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg, December 1993.

· "Educom ‘94 Post Conference Workshop", ALTNEWS, Applied Learning Technologies in Europe, Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg, p. 3, Nov. 1994.

· “Systems Thinking and Complexity Hyperlinked Syllabus”, Conference publication; New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI), R. DeGray, Ph.D, and S. Raman, Ph.D. 1998

· "Interactive Course Syllabus: Preparing Nursing Students for International Health Projects", Conference publication, S. Raman & R. DeGray, Nursing in a Technological World Conference, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia; 4 July 2003

· “The Saint Joseph College Guyana Community Health Project: Preparatory Interactive Syllabus of Logistical and General Curricular Information Resources for Nursing and Counseling Students”, Conference publication, Shyamala Raman, Ph.D. & Ronald W. DeGray, Ph.D., Saint Joseph College. West Hartford, Connecticut, USA; Annual Conference of the North American Consortium of Nursing and Allied Health for International Cooperation (NACNAH), Toronto, Ontario Canada, October 26, 2003

Citations:

· "St. Joseph professor talks about learning by computers", Herald , New Britain, CT, December 27, 1982.

· "Should Kindergarten Kids Start Learning Computers?", Willimantic Chronicle , Dec. 28, 1982.

· "Small College Business Program Focuses on Computers in Decision Making", by Sister Dolores Fitzgerald, Chairperson, Saint Joseph College, CT. T - H - E - Journal, Vol. 11, No. 3, November 1983, pp 109.

· "Saint Joseph College", Hartford Courant, January 3, 1983.

· "Computers in the Classroom", Record-Journal, January 6, 1983.

· "St. Joseph College Responds to Computer Education", Campus Chronicle , January 1984

· "GENDER, PIERY, AND SECULARIZATION IN CONNECTICUT RELIGION, 1720-1775, by Barbara E. Lacey, VOLUME 24 #4, P. 818, ENDNOTE 12, JOURNAL OF SOCIAL HISTORY , Summer 1991.

· DeGray, R., W. "The Internet and BITNET -- An Agora for Mathematicians." FOCUS 13 (February 1993): 15-17 in "Networks in FOCUS", FOCUS , December 1994, "Gopher and the Mathematics Archives: Part Two", p. 12.

· "Fractals and Self Similarity", On-line tutorial, Saint Joseph College, West Hartford Connecticut, R. W. DeGray, Ph.D., Saint Joseph College, 2003

· "Interactive Syllabus Tutorial", On-line; Saint Joseph College, West Hartford, Connecticut, Shyamala Raman, Ph.D., Ronald W. DeGray, Ph.D., 2003

Grants:

· IBM Multimedia Equipment Grant, 1991

· "Fostering Academic Membership on JvNCnet among Institutions of Higher Education in the States of Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York, submitted to NSF with Ira Fuchs and Sergio Hecker, Princeton University, Received; BITNET/INTERNET node, May 15, 1992

· NSF application/grant for the establishment of sjc.edu Internet/World Wide Web (WWW) node. Ca 1995

· Faculty Development Grant for small equipment, 1993; Saint Joseph College

· Establish a Consortium-wide Teaching, Learning, Technology Roundtable; The Hartford Consortium, 1996

· Teaching and Learning Technology Grant, Saint Joseph College Faculty Educational Technology Grant Program, 1998

· Consortium-wide Teaching, Learning, Technology Roundtable Understanding Informatics, The Hartford Consortium, Saint Joseph College, 1999

· Faculty Development Grant to Enhance Teaching and Learning; Saint Joseph College Faculty Educational Technology Grant Program; 1999 - 2000

· Unification Grant participant, Department of Education, Saint Joseph College, 2002

Faculty Development:

Courses taken

· Pascal Programming Course, The Hartford Graduate Center 1982

· Expert Systems Course, The Hartford Graduate Center 1990

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Lectures/Workshops

· Educom/Educause national meeting attendance, 1982 - 2002

· AMS/MAA annual meeting attendance 1981 - 2004

· New England section of the MAA fall and spring meetings; 1981 - 2003

· Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), meetings 1981 - 2003

· Decus Meedings, 1982 - 1993

· Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges (CCSC) meetings 1995 - 2002

· Connecticut Users Group (CTLUG), 1995 - 1999

· Hartford Consortium Computer meetings, 1981 - 1995

· BITNET meetings, JvNCNet Princeton meetings, 1981 - 1995

· Program to Improve Mastery of Mathematics (PIMM) meetings, 1981 – 1996

· ‘Using Altavista’, Howard Strauss, Educause, 1997

· ‘The Web and HTML’, Howard Strauss, Educause, 1998

· Society for Information Management, Hartford Chapter meetings, 1995 - 2002

· Hartford World Affairs Council meetings, 1995 - 2000

· Quantitative Reasoning workshops, Trinity College, 1992

External Community Service:

• Buckingham Cemetery Association, Inc, Not for profit, Treasurer, Glastonbury, CT. 1995 - present

• Bicycle Ride Leader, ‘Yankee Pedalers’ subgroup of the League of American Bicyclists, 1992 - present