Professional Activities

Beverly J. Ferrucci (Mathematics) recently published a chapter in _Teaching Mathematics and Computer Science. _Her chapter, titled “Compositions of Dilations and Isometries in Calculator-Based Dynamic Geometry,” presents a technology-based approach for teaching geometry to middle school mathematics teachers.

Dr. Roland Higgins (Social Sciences) spent a month in China this summer participating in the China Northern Frontier On-site Seminar, jointly sponsored by Beijing and Yale Universities and funded in part by both Yale and the Silk Road Foundation. The group of some 30 scholars from seven different countries traveled overland from Gansu in the northwest, through Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, and Jilin Provinces to the North Korean border in the northeast. The seminar focused on non-Chinese border people’s historical and cultural impact on China from the ancient through the early modern eras. Participants visited archaeological sites, museums, ancient temples, pagodas, and ruins and met with local Chinese scholars along the way in joint seminars and symposia. Dr. Higgins also got to present his own work on connections between China’s northern and coastal frontiers in the Ming period.