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At heart I'm a mathematician. Of all intellectual pursuits, I have found mathematics to be the truest and the most faithful. It has beauty and chaos, but there's always a hard diamond at its core.

I spend my research time either as a biologist (modeling behaviour, inclusive fitness, evolutionary stability) or as an educator (developing curriculum, both at the high school and university level). All this involves lots of beautiful (and elementary) math, so I'm pretty happy with my work. I am cross appointed to both the Biology Department and the Faculty of Education.

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  • My time with the Senate Task Force on Academic Planning, together with my experiences with a number of large first-year courses, have convinced me that we need a new undergraduate model. I have written a discussion paper outlining one possible scenario. I plan to meet soon with interested faculty to talk about these and related ideas.

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