Professor Jeff Clark received the accolade on March 14, 2015, from the Southeastern Section of the Mathematical Association of America.
Elon University Professor Jeff Clark has been honored for his many contributions to the Southeastern Section of the Mathematical Association of America and to mathematics in general.
Clark received the section’s 2015 Distinguished Service Award on March 14, 2015, for his active involvement in the group and for promoting undergraduate participation in the association.
Colleagues noted in nomination letters that Clark leads by example and “is committed to the idea of professional service.”
Clark served as the section’s North Carolina state director from 1997-2000 and as the section’s webmaster from 2003-2010.
He has published over a dozen articles and books with a lengthy list of presentations at sectional meetings, Mathfest, the Joint Mathematics Meetings and the International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics.
Over the past 17 years, he has supervised 25 undergraduate projects in areas that range from cryptography and probability theory to orbital mechanics and a Markov Chain analysis of the popular childhood game “Chutes and Ladders.”
The Southeastern Section of the MAA “advances the mathematical sciences within the states of Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee by considering mathematical professionals at all levels in the design of its program and activities, with a special emphasis on the collegiate level.”