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Deborah Hughes Hallett holds the wordy title, professor of the practice in the teaching of mathematics. She is considered a senior member of the Math faculty, although she does not have tenure. Her national reputation as an outstanding teacher of math prompted the department to grant her a professorship, says Schmid. Hughes Hallett is responsible for establishing curriculum, solving problems in the teaching of math and overseeing all the remedial math courses...
Deborah J. Hughes Hallett, senior preceptor of the Math Department, said the switch is a reaction to growing concern among mathematicians that those who learn calculus no longer recognize its applications in other disclipines...
...many complaints is that people from other fields have felt the kind of material in calculus courses are not recognizable in their fields," Hughes Hallett said. She said that fields such as biology, ecology and economics often require calculus, but present students with data sets and graphs--not formulas...
This summer, when Hughes Hallett and experts from other universities rewrote the standard calculus textbook, they gave it a new look with more graphing and problems drawn from various fields...
IRON LADY. Being Ambassador to the Bahamas is not usually a training ground for the task of U.S. Customs Commissioner, yet Carol Boyd Hallett will succeed the high-profile William von Raab in that job. As Ambassador, Hallett persuaded Prime Minister Lynden Pindling to put Bahamian police on U.S. Customs "hot pursuit" overflights and later lifted the U.S. visas of Pindling cronies accused of drug corruption...