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ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD
Southwestern University, Assistant Professor, 2000 - present
Texas Woman's University, Visiting Assistant Professor, 1999 - 2000
CAREER AND PROFESSIONAL AWARDS
Preparing Mathematicians to Educate Teachers Grant from the Mathematical Association of America for Secondary Education Capstone Project
Fleming Collaborative Research and Creative Activity Program for summer
research in Error Correcting Codes with Dr. Therese Shelton & 7 students
Cullen Research Grant
Mathematical Association of America Project NExT (New Experiences in Teaching) Fellow
Sam Taylor Fellowship for Transforming High School Mathematics Teacher Preparation
RESEARCH AREAS
Algebra and theoretical mathematics, in particular the Cohomology of Toral Arrangements, in addition Dr. Sawyer is interested in reshaping Mathematics K-12 Education especially by enhancing the preparation of future teachers. She also is a statistical consultant for Molecular Biology Research.
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
"A Timeline For an Academic Job Search in Mathematics," Journal of Online Mathematics and its Applications, Vol 1, Issue 2, 2001
"On the Cohomology of the Complement of a Toral Arrangement," University of North Texas, 1999
Texas Mathematical Association of America Journal, Founding Editor, 2002-2003
"Extending Brieskorn's Lemma," in progress
MORE INFORMATION
Curriculum Vita (Adobe PDF)
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