Christina Eubanks-Turner

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Christina Eubanks-Turner
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Alma materXavier University of Louisiana, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Scientific career
FieldsCommutative algebra, graph theory, mathematics education
Institutions Loyola Marymount University
Doctoral advisor Sylvia Wiegand

Christina Eubanks-Turner is a professor of mathematics in the Seaver College of Science and Engineering at Loyola Marymount University (LMU). Her academic areas of interest include graph theory, commutative algebra, mathematics education, and mathematical sciences diversification. She is also the Director of the Master's Program in Teaching Mathematics at LMU. [1]

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Early life and education

Eubanks-Turner was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana and enjoyed logic puzzles and creative thinking as a child. [2] [3] She received her B.S. cum laude from Xavier University of Louisiana, a historically black college, in 2002; she received her M.S. in 2004 and her Ph.D. in 2008—both from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. [2] Eubanks-Turner was one of the first two African Americans to receive a doctorate degree in mathematics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. [4] [5] Her dissertation explored the topic of "Prime ideals in low-dimensional mixed polynomial/power series rings." [6] Eubanks-Turner's doctoral advisor was Sylvia Wiegand. [7]

Career and research

Eubanks-Turner was the first African American to receive tenure at LMU's College of Science and Engineering. [4]

Her research areas include specialized mathematical training that teachers need to teach math at the undergraduate and secondary levels. [1] [8] [9] Her pedagogy also includes the integration of equity issues [10] into teaching and an approach to mathematics education that addresses the whole student. [3] Her research in mathematics includes topics in graph theory and commutative algebra. [11]

Selected publications

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  3. 1 2 "Episode 21: Christina Eubanks-Turner". SheHeroes. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
  4. 1 2 Jones, Shelly (2019). Women Who Count: Honoring African American Women Mathematicians. American Mathematical Society. ISBN   9781470448899.
  5. Henrich, Allison K.; Lawrence, Emille D.; Pons, Matthew A.; Taylor, David George, eds. (2019). Living proof : stories of resilience along the mathematical journey. American Mathematical Society. ISBN   978-1-4704-5281-0. OCLC   1097363982.
  6. Eubanks-Turner, Christina (2008-01-01). "Prime ideals in low-dimensional mixed polynomial/power series rings". ETD Collection for University of Nebraska - Lincoln: 1–114.
  7. "Christina Eubanks-Turner - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
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  9. 1 2 Eubanks-Turner, Christina; Beaulieu, Patricia; Pal, Nabendu (2018-02-07). "Smooth Transition for Advancement to Graduate Education (STAGE) for Underrepresented Groups in the Mathematical Sciences Pilot Project: Broadening Participation through Mentoring". PRIMUS. 28 (2): 97–117. doi: 10.1080/10511970.2017.1295409 . ISSN   1051-1970. S2CID   126066979.
  10. "Equity In Mathematics Education: Five Mathematicians Reflect On The 2018 PCMI Workshop". digitaleditions.walsworthprintgroup.com. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
  11. 1 2 Celikbas, Ela; Eubanks-Turner, Christina; Wiegand, Sylvia (2014), Fontana, Marco; Frisch, Sophie; Glaz, Sarah (eds.), "Prime Ideals in Polynomial and Power Series Rings over Noetherian Domains", Commutative Algebra, Springer New York, pp. 55–82, doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-0925-4_4, ISBN   978-1-4939-0924-7
  12. Eubanks-Turner, Christina; Li, Aihua (2018-10-10). "Interlace polynomials of friendship graphs". Electronic Journal of Graph Theory and Applications. 6 (2): 269–281. doi: 10.5614/ejgta.2018.6.2.7 . ISSN   2338-2287.
  13. Berube, David; Eubanks-Turner, Christina; Mosteig, Edward; Zachariah, Thomas (2018-07-01). "A Tale of Two Programs: Broadening Participation of Underrepresented Students in STEM at Loyola Marymount University". Journal of Research in STEM Education. 4 (1): 13–22. doi: 10.51355/jstem.2018.32 . ISSN   2149-8504.
  14. Swart, B. Baker; Beck, K.A.; Crook, S.; Eubanks-Turner, C.; Grundman, H.G.; Mei, M.; Zack, L. (April 2017). "Augmented generalized happy functions". Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics. 47 (2): 403–417. arXiv: 1410.0297 . doi:10.1216/rmj-2017-47-2-403. ISSN   0035-7596. S2CID   119043244.
  15. "SoftDecision Decoding of Reed-Solomon Codes", Reed-Solomon Codes and Their Applications, IEEE, 2009, doi:10.1109/9780470546345.ch6, ISBN   978-0-470-54634-5
  16. Christina Eubanks-Turner; Najat Hajj (2015). "Mardi Gras Math". Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School. 20 (8): 492. doi:10.5951/mathteacmiddscho.20.8.0492. ISSN   1072-0839.
  17. Eubanks-Turner, Christina; Li, Aihua (2015-03-01). "Graphical properties of the bipartite graph of Spec(Z[x])\{0}". Journal of Algebra Combinatorics Discrete Structures and Applications. 2 (1): 65. doi: 10.13069/jacodesmath.66836 . ISSN   2148-838X.