The Eight Authors of the Maricopa Project

 

 

David Dudley
Hi y’all! How yew doin? Ah’m David Dudley. One of my earliest memories of growing up in Beaumont, Texas, is being ship’s mathematician while playing spaceship with the neighborhood kids. This was even before all the kid’s in my elementary school were hustled into the auditorium to watch an early Mercury mission on the school’s one black-and-white television. I have been a math geek ever since. At my twentieth high school class reunion, my wife Anne got the giggles because everyone had the exact same response when they found out that I was Chair of the Mathematics Department at Phoenix College…"Why am I not surprised?"

I attended the local college, Lamar University, where I was one of 30 or so math majors in my graduating class; there were only two other males. After earning my BA in 1973, I moved to Arizona to attend Arizona State University. After 10 years and 150+ credit hours, they decided that it was time for me to experience the real world. So with an MA and ABD, I got a call from Phoenix College for a one-semester contract and I have been there since then.

I am a member of AMATYC, ArizMATYC, NMMATYC, MAA, NCTM, AMS (occasionally), AAUP, and have been active in the Faculty Senate at PC. I received the Charles Wexler Distinguished Teaching Award from ASU and AMATYC’s Teaching Excellence Award for the Southwest Region. I was the founding Project Director of the Maricopa Mathematics Project and one of the contributors to AMATYC’s Crossroads in Mathematics. I am a member of the Encanto Village Planning Committee for the City of Phoenix.

Our cabin in the mountains came with one of those big satellite dishes, so I spend what little free time I have scanning the skies searching for unusual wild feeds, in addition to hiking and looking for large ungulates.