Although she holds a Ph.D. in economics from Boston College, Rosemarie Emanuele is an associate professor and the chair of the Department of Mathematics at Ursuline College in Pepper Pike, Ohio, just outside of Cleveland. She loves to teach math but also pursues research related to the economics of nonprofit organizations and volunteer labor, and has published in both economics and interdisciplinary journals — as well as in the book that inspired this blog. She is the proud mother of an amazing five year old daughter.
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Math Geek Mom: Another Women’s College
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By Rosemarie Emanuele
January 7, 2010 11:23 pm
I have read with interest the recent columns by Susan O’Daugherty about her experience at a women’s college in the early 1970s. While I did not attend a women’s college, I now teach at one, and wanted to lend a few words about what it is like to teach at a women-centered school. We are the last women’s college in Ohio, and one of only sixty left in only twenty four of the states in the ...
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Math Geek Mom: Truth in Giving
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By Rosemarie Emanuele
December 17, 2009 9:49 pm
Our jobs as professors are built around truth and integrity. We spend our research time searching for the truth, and, once we find a piece of it, we teach and profess that truth in journals and classrooms, hence earning us the name of "professor." Indeed, if someone was to claim our idea as their own, we would be outraged, as we rightly are if our students claim work to be their own when it is ...
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Math Geek Mom: Discussions at a Conference
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By Rosemarie Emanuele
December 10, 2009 9:13 pm
Several weeks ago, I went to my first academic conference since taking my daughter home. It was also my first occasion in eleven years to attend my favorite conference, for the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, called “ARNOVA.” Between presentations, my co-author and I found ourselves with a small amount of time that we used to attend a roundtable ...
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Math Geek Mom: Lights and Lives
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By Rosemarie Emanuele
December 3, 2009 9:20 pm
The lights are on now at Ursuline College.They are not the festive, colorful lights that decorate our trees, but single, individual candles in each window of the brick buildings that house our classrooms and offices, reflecting into the pond that is the visual center of our campus. They were turned on December 2nd, a day chosen deliberately to commemorate the day in 1980 when our 1965 graduate, ...
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Math Geek Mom: Altruism and Aging
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By Rosemarie Emanuele
November 19, 2009 9:12 pm
My first week of graduate school found me in a microeconomics class with a teacher reviewing the assumptions behind what is commonly called the “Adam Smith hypothesis”. Referring to the founder of the discipline of economics, it is a hypothesis that free markets work well, and that work so well that under them no one can be made better off without someone else being made worse off. This can ...
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Math Geek Mom: More on Maternity Leaves
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By Rosemarie Emanuele
November 12, 2009 10:52 pm
Several weeks ago, I asked my readers to share their maternity leave stories with me, as I work to propose a reasonable maternity leave for Ursuline college. This week I want to summarize what I learned, thanks to my readers who were generous with their time in responding to my request. I am especially excited about the responses I received, because I think that they move us in the direction of ...
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Math Geek Mom: Time
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By Rosemarie Emanuele
November 5, 2009 9:40 pm
Last week was a difficult one in my family, as all of us got hit with a bug that is going around. I suspect that my daughter brought it home from school, and she was the first to be hit, followed closely by me. My husband eventually got it, but only on the weekend, when it conveniently would not conflict with any “billable hours” in his practice. I managed to re-arrange my teaching so I could ...
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Math Geek Mom: Maternity leave and my first year (Mod 7)
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By Rosemarie Emanuele
October 30, 2009 10:42 am
If you try to divide 365 by 7, it does not come out evenly. 364, however, does divide evenly, meaning that if you divide 365 by 7, you get a remainder of one. This fact, when coupled with information on leap years (every 4 years), non-leap years (what should be leap years, but end in 10) and “re-instated” leap years (years that end in 10 that should be a leap year, but also are divisible by ...
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Math Geek Mom: Palindromes and Growing Up
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By Rosemarie Emanuele
October 22, 2009 7:17 pm
When my daughter was barely five years old, I told her the phone number of someone we knew, a number that went something like “8448”. I then told her that the number was special, since it was a “palindrome”, and was the same forward and backwards. She looked up at me, and, without missing a second, said “Like Hannah Montana?” It took me a few seconds to realize that the word ...
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Math Geek Mom: Women in Science and Math
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By Rosemarie Emanuele
October 15, 2009 8:34 pm
A long time ago, in a college that now seems to be a galaxy far, far away, I started my college career thinking that I was going to major in physics. While I did go on to earn a minor in the subject, it wasn’t long before I realized that I could apply the same math used in physics to study the economy, and I changed my major to economics, going on to earn a Ph.D. in the field. Besides, when I ...
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