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Richard Delaware

Richard Delaware
Teaching Professor of Mathematics
Science and Engineering

Contact Info
delawarer@umkc.edu
510 A Flarsheim
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Personal Website
Mathematics, teaching writing intensive mathematics courses, history of mathematics

About

Dr. Richard Delaware joined UMKC in 1984. For 19 years, he was mathematics coordinator, and the last five of those years associate director of the Mathematics and Physics Institute, a College of Arts and Sciences program for gifted and talented high school seniors.

In 1998 and 2005, he recorded more than 70 hours of video, entire College Algebra and Calculus I courses, now posted on UMKC’s YouTube channel. He has given more than 70 presentations of over 50 original expository mathematics talks and organized a series of 279 such talks at UMKC for 23 years until 2010.

He is a founding member and organizer of the 29-year Kansas City Mathematics Technology EXPO annual conference, held its last decade at UMKC until 2019. He was a member of the University Writing and Reading Board for 9 years. Click here for some published writing about mathematical life in the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics by Dr. Delaware.

Education

B.S. in Mathematics, University of Santa Clara (1974)
M.A. in Mathematics, University of Kansas (1977)
Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Missouri–Kansas City (2000)

Honors and Awards

  • President’s Award for Innovative Teaching (UM System, 2020)
  • Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Researchers, Scholars, and Artists (UMKC, 2017)
  • Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics (MAA Missouri section, 2011)
  • Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (UMKC, 2011)
  • Founding Faculty Member Award, 19 years at the Mathematics and Physics Institute (MPI, UMKC, 2003)
  • Dean’s Award for Outstanding Teaching (UMKC, 1995)
  • Educational Partners Award (Inroads, 1989)

Courses

Dr. Delaware has taught 26 different undergraduate courses and 4 graduate courses. Since 1998 he has been the sole instructor for the proof-based writing-intensive MATH 464WI: History of Mathematics course. Students from that course through 2022 have produced 34 mathematics publications (30 local, 4 national), won 16 national writing awards (14 first place), and 8 local writing awards.