Shandelle Henson

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]

Shandelle Marie Henson
Born	1964 (age 59–60)
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Southern Adventist University Duke University University of Tennessee
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	College of William & Mary Andrews University

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]

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. 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. Shandelle Henson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
6. Reviews of Chaos in Ecology:
   • Caswell, Hal (October 2003), "Models, experiments, and chaos", Ecology, 84 (10): 2804–2805, doi:10.1890/0012-9658(2003)084[2804:MEAC]2.0.CO;2, JSTOR 3450124
   • Vandermeer, John (March 2004), The Quarterly Review of Biology, 79 (1): 104–106, doi:10.1086/421667, JSTOR 10.1086/421667{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Scheuring, István (2005), Community Ecology, 6 (1): 115–116, doi:10.1556/ComEc.6.2005.1.12, JSTOR 24113409{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Allen, Linda J. S. (January 2007), Journal of Difference Equations and Applications, 13 (1): 93–94, doi:10.1080/10236190601008851, S2CID 216137573{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
7. Alumni Honors Roster, Southern Adventist University, retrieved 2020-02-07

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