Michael E. Moody, Ph.D
Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty
F. W. Olin Professor of Mathematics

781-292-2591
michael.moody@olin.edu

Dr. Moody received his B.A. degree from the University of California at San Diego in 1975, with a double major in Mathematics and Chemical Physics, and a double minor in History and Philosophy. Pursuing an interest in biological systems at the University of Chicago, he finished an applied mathematics thesis in population genetics in 1979. Following graduate school, he spent two years as a USPHS post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Genetics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. In 1981 he joined the faculty at Washington State University, with a joint appointment between the Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics and the Department of Genetics and Cell Biology. He had a Fulbright Fellowship for research to the Institute for Mathematics at the University of Vienna 1990-91. In 1994 Dr. Moody moved to Harvey Mudd College as the Diana and Kenneth Jonsson Professor of Mathematics and mathematics department chair.

Dr. Moody's research in biomathematics focuses on genetic models for evolving populations. His developmental work in teaching is concentrated on designing and implementing curricular models and technological tools to improve mathematics education for engineers and scientists. Dr. Moody was co-designer and developer of the award-winning multi-media ODEArchitect software program for teaching and solving ordinary differential equations. He has also published two books for integrating technology into the calculus curriculum through laboratory experiments. All of this work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation. He has given numerous talks and workshops at national meetings on these topics.

Dr. Michael E. Moody joined Olin College from Harvey Mudd College, where he was the Diana and Kenneth Jonsson Professor of Mathematics and chair of the mathematics department.
 
 
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