Karen Ann Marrongelle is an American mathematics educator and specialist in collaborative learning in mathematics. [1] In 2018, she was appointed head of the Directorate for Education and Human Resources at the National Science Foundation. [2] [3] She previously was the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Portland State University.
Marrongelle attended Allentown Central Catholic High School in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and then Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania, [4] where she majored in mathematics and also served on the executive board of Albright's radio station, WXAC, and graduated in 1995. [5] After earning a master's degree in mathematics at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1997, [6] she completed her doctorate in mathematics education at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, [3] where her dissertation was Physics experiences and calculus: How students use physics to construct meaningful conceptualizations of calculus concepts in an interdisciplinary calculus/physics course. [7]
In 2001, Marrongelle became a faculty member in the department of mathematics and statistics at Portland State University. She took a leave from Portland State to work at the National Science Foundation from 2007 to 2009. At Portland State, she was assistant vice chancellor for academic standards, vice chancellor for academic strategies, and interim dean of liberal arts and sciences. In 2015, she was appointed dean. [2] [3] As dean, she led a proposal to eliminate Portland State's language programs in Ancient Greek, Swahili, Korean, and Vietnamese. [8]
With Ping Li, Marrongelle is the author of the book Having Success with NSF: A Practical Guide, published by Wiley in 2013. In 2015, Marongelle became one of the three founding editors-in-chief of the Springer mathematics education journal International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, a post she held until 2019. [9]
Portland State University (PSU) is a public research university in Portland, Oregon, United States. It was founded in 1946 as a post-secondary educational institution for World War II veterans. It evolved into a four-year college over the next 20 years and was granted university status in 1969. It is one of two public universities in Oregon that are in a large city. It is governed by a board of trustees. PSU is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity".
DeSales University (DSU) is a private Catholic university in Center Valley, Pennsylvania. The university offers traditional, online, and hybrid courses and programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Named for St. Francis de Sales, the university was founded in 1964 as Allentown College of Saint Francis de Sales by the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales.
Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck ForMemRS is an American mathematician and one of the founders of modern geometric analysis. She is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, where she held the Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair. She is currently a distinguished visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and a visiting senior research scholar at Princeton University.
Allentown Central Catholic High School (ACCHS), often referred to as Central Catholic or Central, is a private, parochial school located at 301 N. 4th Street in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The school is managed by the Diocese of Allentown, and predominantly serves students from the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania.
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