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Pamela K. Warton, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Chair of Mathematics Year Started at UF: 2006 Contact Information   Office Location: 1110 Cory Street #F Telephone: 419-434-4147 E-mail: warton@findlay.edu

Credentials
	Ph.D., Bowling Green State University M.A., Bowling Green State University B.S., Bowling Green State University

Pam Warton has taught just about every mathematics course offered in an undergraduate program. After earning her PhD in 1997, she taught for 5 years at Bowling Green State University. She then decided she would be happier at a teaching institution, and spent the next 4 years at Siena Heights University in Michigan where she was introduced to the undergraduate research experience. She came to The University of Findlay in the fall of 2006. While her training is in theoretical mathematics, she has become fascinated with applied mathematics, and has done research with undergraduate students in everything from kaleidoscopes and knot theory to managing perishable goods inventories at a restaurant.

Pam is the faculty advisor of the UF Euler Math Club. She is also an active member of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) and is a member of the committee that organizes section activities. She has also been a member of many different university committees, including being the chair of the Faculty Development Committee at SHU for 2 years. She is also a member of Pi Mu Epsilon (PME), which is an honorary mathematics society, and is currently trying to establish a chapter at UF. She has won several teaching awards, an advisor of the year award, and was nominated by students for Who's Who of America's Teachers four separate years.

Pam attended MathFest 2008 in Madison, WI and gave a talk entitled 'Group Theory is Child's Play: A Mathematical Look at Kaleidoscopes'. She has also given several sessions at different conferences on using technology in the mathematics classroom. She helped automate the US Coast Guard Search and Rescue Algorithm using graphing calculators which can be taken out on the boats. She has also mentored 12 undergraduate research projects that have been presented at different conferences. Some of the titles were 'The Bridge from Algebra to Abstract Algebra', 'It's Almost Like Cheating:  A Research Project in Game Theory', 'Why Knot?:  A Classification of Knots', and 'A Feasibility Study of Noah's Ark'.