
Monday/Wednesday: 1:00 - 3:00
By appointment

MAC 1105-001 (1859) COLLEGE ALGEBRA (Lecture) MoWe 9:45AM - 11:20AM

Born and educated from K - 12, on FAMU's campus; piano lessons from age 5 to freshman
year at Spelman College; the education and/or attended institutes were FSU, UF, and
Univ. Cal Berkeley (UCB); faculty member at Randolph Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg
Va. and FAMU; career as a FAMU Mathematics Associate Professor

- Playing Classical and Spiritual Piano
- STEM Disciplines
- Ancient World History
- Christianity
- Traveling
- Family and Friends

- Ph.D. in Mathematics • 1988
Florida State University
- Masters in Mathematics • 1974
University of Florida
- B.S. in Mathematics • 1972
Spelman College

- Associate Professor • 1988 - 2024
Florida A&M University
- Assistant Professor • 1987 - 1988
Randolph Macon Women's College
- Instructor • 1974 - 1979
Florida A&M University

- Chair of the Mathematical Association of America’s Award for Inclusivity 2023 - 2024
- Chair of American Mathematical Society’s Fall 2023 – Fall 2024 Southeast Regional
Conferences
- The External Reviewer of the Undergraduate and Graduate Programs of the Towson University
Department of Mathematics, Spring 2016
- Secretary/Treasurer of the National Association of Mathematicians (NAM), January 2002
– 2019
- Steering Committee Member of the Sunshine State Scholars Program, whose primary goal
is to recognize Florida high school seniors who have demonstrated outstanding performance
in mathematics and sciences, 2002 - 2009
- Principal Investigator for the NSF Young Scholars Program titled, “Mathematical Models
in the Natural and Social Sciences”. This project was funded in the amount of $218,000
from March, 1996 through July, 1998.
- The STPX Spheromak System: A topological Study”, a poster presentation for the DPP15
Meeting of the American Physical Society, Savannah, GA, November, 16-20, 2015
- Invited Speakers Shirley Burgraff and Roselyn Williams presented a presentation titled,
“Workshop of Inequality, Development and Growth”, held at the United Nations, New
York, NY. Also presented a paper titled, “Between the Lines of Economic Growth Models:
An Efficiency Case for Gender Equality”, May 18-20, 2008.
- Founder: The Alliance for the Production of African American Ph.D.s in the Mathematical
Sciences, July 19, 2005.

- Intermediate Algebra
- College Algebra
- Introduction to Statistics
- Pre-Calculus
- Calculus I, II, and III
- Mathematical Statistics
- Advanced Calculus I and II
- Linear Algebra
- Number Theory
- Abstract Algebra
- Modern Pure Geometry
- Foundations of Mathematics
- Undergraduate Topology
- Group Theory; its Application to Physical Problems and Fundamentals of Research Design
- Introduction to Statistical Methods and Data Analysis