Shandelle M. Henson's Homepage: Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae

Revised 01 July 2026

Contact

Name: Shandelle Marie Henson
Address: Department of Mathematics, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI, 49104 USA
Phone: (269) 471-3423
E-mail: henson@andrews.edu

Appointments

2025-present, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, Andrews University
2016-2025, Professor of Ecology, Department of Biology, Andrews University
2006-2025, Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI 49104 USA
2011-2016, Chair, Department of Mathematics, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI 49104 USA
2012-2013, Chair, STEM Division, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI 49104 USA
2004-2006, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, College of Graduate Studies, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI 48859 USA
2001-2006, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI 49104 USA
1999-2001, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187 USA
1996-1999, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
1994-1996, Hanno Rund Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA

Education

Postdoctoral studies, Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 1994-1999 (applied dynamical systems and bifurcation theory)
Ph.D. Mathematics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, August 1994 (partial differential equations)
M.A. Mathematics, Duke University, Durham, NC, May 1989 (mathematical logic)
B.S. Mathematics, summa cum laude, Southern Scholar, Southern College, Collegedale, TN, May 1987
Visiting Undergraduate Student, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1986

Advisors

Postdoctoral Advisor: J. M. Cushing, Professor of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 1994-1999
PhD Advisor: Thomas G. Hallam, Professor of Mathematics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 1991-1994
Masters Advisor: Joseph R. Shoenfield, Professor of Mathematics, Duke University, Durham, NC, 1987-1989

Professional Publications

See http://www.andrews.edu/cas/math/research/henson_publications.html, or see attached publication list if you are reading a hard copy.

Invited Professional Talks

See http://www.andrews.edu/cas/math/research/henson_talks.html, or see attached list if you are reading a hard copy.

Plenary Addresses and Invited Workshop Lectures

Plenary speaker, EXSEED Summer Conference, "How We Know: A tour through the power and limits of human reasoning", Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, Virtual, June 22, 2021.
Plenary speaker, Conference on Biology and Medicine through Mathematics (BAMM!), "Rising Sea Surface Temperatures and Tipping Points for Seabird Colonies", Richmond, VA, May 18, 2017.
Plenary speaker, World Conference on Natural Resource Modeling, Resource Modeling Association, "The Effects of Climate Change on Marine Birds: Rising Sea Surface Temperature, Cannibalism, and Reproductive Synchrony, Part II", Flagstaff, AZ, June 14, 2016.
Distinguished Research Lecture, "Effects of Climate Change on Animal Behavior", La Sierra University, Riverside, CA, May 27, 2015.
Plenary speaker, with J. L. Hayward, Michigan Academy of Science, Arts & Letters Conference, "Effects of Climate Change on Animal Behavior", Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI, March 13, 2015.
Plenary speaker, Third Annual Celebration of Research, "The Mathematics of Animal Behavior", Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI, November 10, 2011.
Plenary speaker, 2009 Workshop for Young Researchers in Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, August 26, 2009.
Plenary speaker, Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Populations in Biological Systems, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, October 5, 2007
Plenary speaker, MAA Sectional Meeting, Saginaw, MI, May 2, 2003
Main speaker, Rocky Mountain Mathematics Consortium Summer Conference on Discrete Dynamical Systems and Their Applications to Population Dynamics, University of Wyoming, July 7-18, 2003
International Centre for Theoretical Physics, 4th Autumn Course on Mathematical Ecology, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, October-November 1994

Grants and Fellowships

· External

Note: NSF = U. S. National Science Foundation
NSF Grant, 2014-2021, DMS 1407040 RUI: Collaborative Research: Climate Change, Cannibalism, and Reproductive Synchrony: The Effect of Food Shortages on Life History Strategies of Marine Organisms
NSF Grant, 2010-2014, DMS 1022494 RUI: Socially-Induced Ovulation Synchrony in Colonial Seabirds: Mathematical Models and Field Data
NSF Grant, 2006-2010, DMS 0613899 RUI: Collaborative Research: Impact of Environmental Disturbance on Animal Behavior: Mathematical Models and Field Populations
NSF Grant, 2004-2007, DMS 0414212 Competitive coexistence and life cycle stages
NSF Grant, 2003-2009, DUE 0336596 Testing a Model for Attracting Students into STEM: Behavioral Neuroscience at Andrews University
NSF Grant, 2003-2006, DMS 0314512 Seabird Habitat Patch Dynamics: Connecting Mathematical Models and Data
NSF Grant, 2002-2003, DMS 0210474 QEIB: Stochastic Nonlinear Population Dynamics: Mathematical Models, Biological Experiments, and Data Analyses
NSF Grant, 1999-2002, DMS 9973126 Nonlinear Population Dynamics: Mathematical Models, Biological Experiments, and Data Analyses
American Fellowship, 1996-1997 (Sarah Berliner Fellowship; granted by the American Association of University Women; full support for one year of research)

· Internal

Andrews University Faculty Grant, 2016-2017, Comparison of Surface Patterns on Cannibalized and Noncannibalized Gull Eggs (renewal)
Andrews University Faculty Grant, 2015-2016, Comparison of Surface Patterns on Cannibalized and Noncannibalized Gull Eggs (renewal)
Andrews University Faculty Grant, 2014-2015, Behavior of Flightless Cormorants in Relation to Environmental Variables
Andrews University Faculty Grant, 2013-2014, Paleoecological Reconstruction of Protection Island, Washington (renewal)
Andrews University Faculty Grant, 2012-2013, Paleoecological Reconstruction of Protection Island, Washington
Andrews University Faculty Grant, 2011-2012, Using Mathematical Models to Predict Haulout Patterns of Marine Iguanas (renewal)
Andrews University Faculty Grant, 2010-2011, Using Mathematical Models to Predict Haulout Patterns of Marine Iguanas
Andrews University Faculty Grant, 2009-2010, Feathered Oscillators: Reproductive Synchrony in Seabirds
Andrews University Faculty Grant, 2008-2009, Feathered Oscillators: Reproductive Synchrony in Seabirds
Andrews University Faculty Grant, 2007-2008, Population and Community Ecology of Protection Island, Washington
Andrews University Faculty Grant, 2006-2007, Population and Community Ecology of Protection Island, Washington
Andrews University Faculty Grant, 2005-2006, Population and Community Ecology of Protection Island, Washington: Using Mathematical Models to Predict Behavior in Seabirds
Andrews University Faculty Grant, 2004-2005, Population and Community Ecology of Protection Island, Washington
Andrews University Faculty Grant, 2003-2004, Population and Community Ecology of Protection Island, Washington
Andrews University Faculty Grant, 2002-2003, Community Ecology of Protection Island, Washington

Editorships

Editor-in-Chief, Natural Resource Modeling (2016-2022)
Editor, Natural Resource Modeling (2004-2016)
Editor, Journal of Biological Dynamics (2006-2016)
Book Review Editor, Journal of Difference Equations and Applications (2002-2004)

Guest Editorships of Special Issues

Guest Editor (with Suzanne L. Robertson), Natural Resource Modeling, special issue in honor of Catherine A. Roberts, Vol 31, Issue 1, 2018
Guest Editor (with J. M. Cushing and James L. Hayward), Natural Resource Modeling, special issue on eco-evo dynamics, 2015
Guest Editor (with Jia Li), Journal of Biological Dynamics, special issue in honor of J. M. Cushing, Vol. 3, No. 2-3, March-May 2009
Guest Editor (with Azmy Ackleh, Linda Allen, Graciela Canziani, Jia Li, and Zhien Ma), Mathematical Sciences and Engineering, special issue in honor of Thomas G. Hallam, Vol. 5, No. 4, October 2008
Guest Editor (with Hal Smith), Journal of Difference Equations and Applications, special issue in honor of J. M. Cushing, Vol. 11, No. 4-5, April 2005

Conferences and Special Sessions Organized

Special Session on “Modeling Natural Resources” at AMS annual meeting, Joint Mathematics Meetings, Seattle, WA, January, 2025
Special Session on “Modeling Natural Resources” at AMS annual meeting, Joint Mathematics Meetings, Denver, CO, January, 2020
Special Session on “Modeling Natural Resources” at AMS annual meeting, Joint Mathematics Meetings, Baltimore, MD, January, 2019
Special Session on “Mathematical Modeling of Natural Resources” at AMS annual meeting, Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Diego, CA, January, 2018
Special Session on “Mathematics in Natural Resource Modeling” at AMS annual meeting, Joint Mathematics Meetings, Seattle, WA, January, 2016
Mathematics Section Chair, Michigan Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters annual meeting, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI, 12 March 2015
Special Session on “Mathematics in Natural Resource Modeling” at AMS annual meeting, Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Antonio, TX, January, 2015
Special Session on “Mathematics in Natural Resource Modeling” at AMS annual meeting, Joint Mathematics Meetings, Baltimore, January, 2014
Mathematics Section Chair, Michigan Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters annual meeting, Hope College, Holland, MI, 22 March 2013
Special Session on “The Mathematics of Natural Resource Modeling” at AMS annual meeting, Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Diego, January, 2013
John F. Stout Research Symposium, Biology Department, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI, September 26, 2008
Minisymposium on "Competition: Data and Theory" at SMB Annual Meeting, Ann Arbor, MI, July 25-28, 2004
Special Session on "Biological Applications of Dynamical Systems" at AMS sectional meeting, Ann Arbor, MI, March 1-3, 2002
Special Session on "PDE Models in Population Biology and Epidemiology" at AMS annual meeting, Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans, January, 2001
Special Session on "Population Dynamics" at Southwestern Regional AMS meeting in Tucson, AZ, November, 1998
Minisymposium on "Chaos in Population Dynamics" at annual SIAM meeting in Kansas City, Missouri, July, 1996

Seminars Organized

Geology Seminar, Andrews University, Fall 2011 - Spring 2012
Population Dynamics and Bifurcations, Department of Mathematics, College of William and Mary, Fall 1999
Dynamics in Populations Seminar, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Fall 1997 - Fall 1998

Workshops Organized

Co-organizer, NSF Quantitative Environmental Biology Workshop, Fall 2000

Professional and Honor Societies

American Mathematical Society
Resource Modeling Association
Sigma Xi
Pi Mu Epsilon
Phi Kappa Phi

Advisees

· Graduate students

Athena Smith, MS Biology, Andrews University (2015-2017)
Amanda G. Sandler, MS Biology, Andrews University (2012-2014)
Danielle L. Burton, MS Mathematics and Science, Andrews University (2011-2013)
Libby C. Megna, MS Biology, Andrews University (2010-2012)
Brianna G. Payne, MS Biology, Andrews University (2009-2012)
Jonathan D. Cowles, MS Biology, Andrews University (2009-2011)
Kelly M. McWilliams, MS Biology, Andrews University (2006-2009)
Andrea L. Moore, MS Mathematics and Physical Science, Andrews University (2005-2006)
Smruti P. Damania, MS Biology, Andrews University (2002-2004)
Karl W. Phillips, MS Biology, Andrews University (2002-2004)

· Undergraduate research students

Jake Kroepel (2020-2025)
Noelle Koliadko (2020-2025)
Tae H. Lee (2020-2025)
Adriana Luna (2018-2025)
Brandi Seawood (2018-2025)
Jonathan Watson (2018-2019)
Yosia Nurhan (2018-2021)
Mykhaylo Malakhov (2017-2021)
Benjamin MacDonald (2017-2018)
Clemence Habimana (2016-2017)
Timothy Robertson (2016-2017)
Isabelle Hwang (2015-2019)
Dorothea Gallos (2015-2019)
Christiane Gallos (2015-2019)
Tori Kolpacoff (2015-2017)
Rashida Smith (2015-2017)
Whitney Watson (2014-2015)
Saharsh Dass (2014-2016)
Zachary Reichert (2013-2016)
Ashley Reichert (2013-2016)
Wadenerson Saint Martin (2013-2015)
Sumiko Weir (2013-2016)
WayAnne Watson (2013-2015)
Craig Dujon (2013-2014)
Mindy McLarty (2012-2015)
Emily Adams (2011-2012)
Shelley McLarty (2011-2013)
Matthew Chacko (2010-2013)
Melissa McCormick (2010-2012)
Esther Jackie Diah (2009-2010)
Andre Moncrieff (2008-2014)
Claudia Melgosa, Andrews University (2006-2009)
Libby Megna, Andrews University (2006-2010)
Brianna Payne, Andrews University (2005-2009)
Sheena Lyn, Andrews University (2005-2009)
Emmanuel Scott, Andrews University (2007-2008)
Amanda Wageman, Andrews University (2006-2007)
Erika Tanner, Andrews University (2006-2007)
Stefan Smith, Andrews University (2006-2010)
Liza Habenicht, Andrews University (2006-2008)
Laura Foster, Walla Walla College (2006-2008)
Sharon Hodge, Andrews University (2006-2007)
Daniel Greene, Andrews University (2006-2008)
Michael Scott, Andrews University (2006)
Maureen Serem, Andrews University (2005-2007)
Rebecca Prouty, Andrews University (2005-2006)
Cassaundra Johnson Boothby, Andrews University (2005-2007)
Linda Lange, Andrews University (2005)
Matthew Sharrock, Andrews University (2004-2005)
Chantel Blackburn, Andrews University (2004-2006)
Catherine Parris, Andrews University (2003-2005)
Christina Burden, Andrews University (2002-2006)
Clara Logan, Andrews University (2002-2005)
Matthew Meyer, Andrews University (2002-2003)
James Reilly, College of William and Mary (2000-2001)
Eric Davis, College of William and Mary (2000-2001)
Suzanne Robertson, College of William and Mary (2001)
Matthew Schu, College of William and Mary (2001)
Viva Miller, College of William and Mary (2001)
Alice Halloran, University of Arizona (1998-1999)
Naoko Nomura, University of Arizona (1998)

Awards

Teacher of the Year, Student Choice, Andrews University, 2019
Undergraduate Research Mentor Award, Andrews University, 2018
Bruce E. Lee Service Award, Andrews University, 2017
Siegfried H. Horn Award for Excellence in Research, Andrews University, 2011
J. N. Andrews Medallion, Andrews University, May Graduation 2009
Alumnus of the Year Award, Southern Adventist University, October 25, 2007
Daniel A. Augsburger Excellence in Teaching Award, Andrews University, 2006
American Fellowship (Sarah Berliner), American Association of University Women, 1996-1997
Hanno Rund postdoctoral appointment, University of Arizona, 1994-1996
Senior Graduate Student Research Award, University of Tennessee, 1994
Dorothea and Edgar D. Eaves Teaching Award, University of Tennessee, 1993
Graduate Teaching Assistantship and Graduate Research Associateship, University of Tennessee, 1992-1994
L.P. and Barbara Smith Award for Excellence in Teaching, Duke University, 1991
L.P. and Barbara Smith Teaching Award, Duke University, 1990
Fellowship and Teaching Assistantship, Duke University, 1987-1991
Southern Scholar, Southern Adventist University, 1987
Senior Mathematics Award, Southern Adventist University, 1987
A.G.H. Award for Excellence in Mathematics, Southern Adventist University, 1986
Physics Award, Southern Adventist University, 1985
Calculus Sequence Award, Southern Adventist University, 1985

Other Professional Activities

Scientific Committee for the 6th biannual International Conference on Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Populations in Biological Systems (ICMA) conference, University of Arizona, Tucson, on Oct 6-8, 2017
Consultant and Core Group member, 1995-1996, Southwest Regional Institute in Mathematical Sciences (SWRIMS) NSF-funded project to integrate mathematical research into high school and middle school classrooms and to "establish a vehicle by which secondary and middle school mathematics and science teachers and university faculty members contribute to the professional development of one another"
Founder and Former President of Southern Mathematical Society, Southern Adventist University, Collegedale, TN