| Shandelle Marie Henson | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1964 (age 60–61) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Southern Adventist University Duke University University of Tennessee |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | College of William & Mary Andrews University |
Shandelle Marie Henson (born 1964) is an American mathematician and mathematical biologist known for her work in population dynamics. She is a professor of mathematics and ecology at Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan, and the editor-in-chief of the journal Natural Resource Modeling.
Education and career
Henson was an undergraduate at Southern College (now Southern Adventist University), and a visiting student at Harvard University, graduating from Southern College in 1987 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics, summa cum laude, as one of the college's five Southern Scholars for that year. She studied mathematical logic at Duke University, earning a master's degree in 1989, and completed a Ph.D. in 1994 at the University of Tennessee. Her dissertation, Individual-based Physiologically Structured Population and Community Models, was on partial differential equations in population dynamics, and was supervised by Thomas G. Hallam.
After postdoctoral research as Hanno Rund Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona, Henson joined the faculty at the College of William & Mary in 1999, and moved to Andrews University in 2001. There, she was promoted to full professor in 2006, chaired the mathematics department from 2011 to 2016, and added a second affiliation as a professor of ecology in the department of biology in 2016.
Books
Henson is the co-author, with J. M. Cushing, R. F. Costantino, Brian Dennis, and Robert Desharnais, of the book Chaos in Ecology: Experimental Nonlinear Dynamics (Academic Press, 2003). She is also the author of a biography of Sam Campbell, titled Sam Campbell: Philosopher of the Forest (Three Lakes Historical Society and TEACH Services, 2001).
Recognition
In 2007, Southern Adventist University gave Henson their alumnus of the year award.
References
- Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2020-02-07
- Cipra, Barry (June 30, 2003), "In population dynamics, it's a dogma eat dogma world" (PDF), SIAM News, 36 (5)
- ^ Curriculum vitae, April 25, 2019, retrieved 2020-02-07
- Southern College Commencement Program May 1-3, 1987 (pdf), Southern College, 1987 – via Southern Adventist University Knowledge Exchange
- ^ Shandelle Henson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Reviews of Chaos in Ecology:
- Caswell, Hal (October 2003), "Models, experiments, and chaos", Ecology, 84 (10): 2804–2805, doi:10.1890/0012-9658(2003)084[2804:MEAC]2.0.CO;2, JSTOR 3450124
- Vandermeer, John (March 2004), The Quarterly Review of Biology, 79 (1): 104–106, doi:10.1086/421667, JSTOR 10.1086/421667
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Scheuring, István (2005), Community Ecology, 6 (1): 115–116, doi:10.1556/ComEc.6.2005.1.12, JSTOR 24113409
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Allen, Linda J. S. (January 2007), Journal of Difference Equations and Applications, 13 (1): 93–94, doi:10.1080/10236190601008851, S2CID 216137573
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- Alumni Honors Roster, Southern Adventist University, retrieved 2020-02-07
External links
Categories:- 1964 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- Theoretical biologists
- Southern Adventist University alumni
- Duke University alumni
- University of Tennessee alumni
- College of William & Mary faculty
- Andrews University faculty
- 20th-century American women mathematicians
- 21st-century American women mathematicians