| Birth date | 1964 (age 62–63) |
|---|---|
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Workplaces | College of William & Mary Andrews University |
| Alma mater | Southern Adventist University Duke University University of Tennessee |
Shandelle Marie Henson (born 1964)[1] is an American mathematician and mathematical biologist known for her work in population dynamics.[2] 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.[3]
Education and career
Henson was an undergraduate at Southern College (now Southern Adventist University), and a visiting student at Harvard University,[3] 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.[4] 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.[3] Her dissertation, Individual-based Physiologically Structured Population and Community Models,[5] was on partial differential equations in population dynamics,[3] and was supervised by Thomas G. Hallam.[5]
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.[3]
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).[6] 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.[7]
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", 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
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- ^ 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:MEAC2.0.CO;2]. JSTOR 3450124 *Vandermeer, John (March 2004), "none", The Quarterly Review of Biology. 79 (1): 104–106, doi:10.1086/421667. JSTOR 10.1086/421667 *Scheuring, István (2005), "none", Community Ecology. 6 (1): 115–116, doi:10.1556/ComEc.6.2005.1.12. JSTOR 24113409 *Allen, Linda J. S. (January 2007), "none", Journal of Difference Equations and Applications. 13 (1): 93–94, doi:10.1080/10236190601008851. S2CID 216137573
- ^ "Alumni Honors Roster", Southern Adventist University, archived from the original on 2018-11-03, retrieved 2020-02-07