Shandelle Henson

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Shandelle Marie Henson
Born1964 (age 5758)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materSouthern Adventist University
Duke University
University of Tennessee
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsCollege of William & Mary
Andrews University


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]

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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 A. 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]

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References

  1. Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2020-02-07
  2. Cipra, Barry (June 30, 2003), "In population dynamics, it's a dogma eat dogma world" (PDF), SIAM News, 36 (5)
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Curriculum vitae, April 25, 2019, retrieved 2020-02-07
  4. Southern College Commencement Program May 1-3, 1987 (pdf), Southern College, 1987 via Southern Adventist University Knowledge Exchange
  5. 1 2 Shandelle Henson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. Reviews of Chaos in Ecology:
  7. Alumni Honors Roster, Southern Adventist University, retrieved 2020-02-07