➊ 数学教学工具: I like to bring physical things to class and use them to do active learning, instead of students watching me work a problem at the blackboard. 这些形状是例子 多面体. [Models like these] aid ways of understanding the symmetries in each of these shapes. 所以,我将 bring these in and have students work in pairs and solve problems with them. 而且，因为很多学生都是 interested in teaching high-school math, in my geometry class we explore a whole curriculum called patty-paper几何. Patty-paper is the wax paper sheets used for hamburgers. 因为它们是半透明的， you can fold them and it’s easy to see the lines and then make conjectures about triangles. 卡片和 我在统计诅咒中使用的骰子.

➌ 学生会奖项: These are some of my most prized possessions. 每年 graduating students vote for somebody, either a staff member or a faculty member. 上面写着“这个奖是 Awarded to a 教师 Member Who Gives Outstanding Service to the 欧洲杯买球怎么投注 Community and Who Upholds the Qualities Intrinsic with a 欧洲杯买球怎么投注 Education.” I think I’m prouder of those than anything I’ve ever won, 真的.

➍ 古意第绪语戏剧海报: Years 前, three 欧洲杯买球怎么投注 professors who were fluent in Yiddish, started something called the Yiddish Culture Festival. 他们想让学生们感兴趣 意第绪语文化, so, 他们邀请诗人, 和翻译, and people who knew things about Eastern European culture to come and give lectures, and I attended these. I don’t speak Yiddish, but I had a grandmother who 我一直对它很感兴趣. Well after a year or so, I said to them, “Do you guys have a 邮件列表? 你有发送出去的时间表吗?” And none of them did, and so I got involved as an organizer [with Biology Professor Mel Santer, 谁在2015年去世, 古典文学名誉教授丹·吉利斯 and Emeritus Professor of Psychology Sid Perloe] and we’ve been doing it for the last 22 years. 它没有 strike a chord with students, but it has become more and more popular amongst community members.

➎ 孩子们的照片: That photo of my son Jacob [left] was taken when he was quite a bit 年轻的. 他是 28 now and goes by the stage name Jacob Jax. 他是拉斯维加斯的职业魔术师. 他是 在一个综艺节目里, 这是新的东西, 但通常他为自己工作, 在上面施魔法 拉斯维加斯大道. And that’s my daughter, Eleanor, on the right. 她是30. 她研究的是猛禽 for a while after she graduated from college. She did various internships at zoos, bird cognition labs, and 避难所，但她已经离开了. 她有一个M.A. in library science and she works at the Wharton 学校. 我真的为我的两个孩子感到骄傲.

➏ 他的本科导师写的书: Professor Andy Gleason, who became my mentor and friend, used this in the very first math class I took at Harvard. 这个班太高级了，以至于他 interviewed everybody who wanted to take it. I had taken three college-level math classes in high school and 我以为我很性感, 但他对我说, “嗯, 你知道, most of the students in this class will have 比你准备得多.” That class 真的 blew me out of the water. 它让我开始走上正轨 to becoming a mathematician, and it also proved to me the importance of having a good mentor.

➐ 新的MSP标志: MSP started more than 30 years 前, before I came to campus. 这是 Minority Scholars 程序 then, and it was focused on science. 随着时间的推移，它的数量越来越多，包括 all the disciplines and students who were not minorities. So, the name got changed to Multicultural Scholars 程序. 但学生们不知道这是给谁的. So we decided, “Why don’t we just call it MSP?这可以 代表很多不同的东西. The way it works is we invite all the 欧洲杯买球怎么投注 students who are either 第一代, 低收入, or underrepresented in academia to roughly once-a-month evening workshops over 晚餐. These are typically run by upper-class students, so it’s student-to-student networking and mentoring, on subjects like “How do you succeed in this place? 你是怎么选课的?“我们最近有一个 on how to pick a major, and one on how to do your taxes. —E. L.