Dr. Kathy Hoke
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Profile
Kathy Hoke’s research centers on discrete mathematical modeling, with past projects on games and voting, communication graphs, biological modeling, and quantitative methods for identifying chronic mild traumatic brain injury in veterans. She has worked as a co-principal investigator and/or administrator on significant grants supporting interdisciplinary STEM education, inclusive teaching practices, and undergraduate research, with funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the National Science Foundation.
Her recent signature courses include innovative first-year calculus courses, one connected to biology and chemistry in the SMART (Science, Math, and Research Training) program and one connected to economics in the Robins School of Business Endeavor RSB program. Both programs offer students a chance to more fully understand the connections between different fields and to learn how to approach problems from the perspective of multiple disciplines. SMART offers first year students a two-semester course that includes an integrated chemistry and biology part taught in conjunction with special sections of Calculus I and II that directly relate concepts of calculus to biology and chemistry topics. The Endeavor RSB program connects Economics 101 with Calculus I in the first semester, followed by other courses in the business school in the second and third semester.
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Presentations
Inclusivity in the Mathematical Sciences at the Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, England. Talk: “SMART Calculus: Inclusivity via Science Integration” (March 2025)
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Professional Experience
A&S Associate Dean for Research Support (2003-2012)
Chair, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (2000-2003; 2018-2021)
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Community Service
Arts & Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee Presidential Search Committee, 2020-2021
Integrated Inclusive Science Program Advisory Board
Presidential Search Committee, 2020-2021
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Presentations
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Publications
Journal Articles
“The Effect of Brexit on EU Voting Power,” with Steele, D. The UMAP Journal 39:1 (February 2018) 27-39.
“Distinction in EEG slow oscillations between chronic mild traumatic brain injury and PTSD,” with Franke, L., Walker, W, and Wares, J. International Journal of Psychophysiology 106 (August 2016): 21-29
Characterizing the effects of mTBI and PTSD on balance impairments in blast-exposed Service Members and Veterans using computerized posturography,” with Wares, J., Walker, W., Franke, L, Cifu, D., Carne, W., and Ford-Smith, Cheryl, J. Rehabilitation Research & Development 52 (5),(2015):591-604.
“Effects of Hyperbaric Oxygen on Eye Tracking Abnormalities in Males after Mild Traumatic Brain Injury,” with Cifu, D.; Wetzel, P.; Wares, J.; Gitchel, G.; Carne, W.; Journal of Rehabilitation Research & Development 51(7), (2014): 1047-56.
“Differential Eye Movements in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury vs Normal Controls,” with Cifu, D.; Wares, J.; Wetzel, P.; Gitchel, G.; Carne,W.; Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation 20(1) (2014): 21-8.
“Institutional support for undergraduate research,” with Pantano, A., Zarrouk, M., and Zeleke, A., Involve 7:3 (2014): 355-362.
“Challenging Disciplinary Boundaries in the First-Year: A New Introductory Integrated Science Course for STEM Majors,” with Gentile, L.; Caudill, L.; Fetea, M.; Hill, A.; Lawson, B.; Lipan, O.; Kerckhove, M.; Parish, C.; Stenger, K.; Szajda, D., Journal of College Science Teaching 41 (5), May 2012.
“Global Problems as a Framework for Integrated STEM Learning in the First Year,” with L. Gentile, Diversity and Democracy (AAC&U) 14 (2), Spring 2011: 15-16.
“Impact of Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Research in Mathematics and Biology on the Development of a New Course Integrating 5 STEM Disciplines,” with L. Caudill, A. Hill, O. Lipan, CBE-Life Sci Educ 2010: 212-216.
"Early Involvement in Undergraduate Research at the University of Richmond," with L. Gentile, CUR Quarterly, Fall 2008.
“The Long-Term Undergraduate Research (LURE) Model,” S. S. Adams, J. A. Davis, N. Eugene, K. Hoke, S. Narayan, K. Smith, Proceedings of the Conference on Promoting Undergraduate Research in Mathematics, J.A. Gallian (Editor), American Mathematical Society (2007) 215-218.
Appendix to "Determination of bias in the relative abundance of oligonucleotides in DNA sequences, " with S. Vogel* and J. Elhai, Journal of Computational Biology (2001).
"Communication Games and the Canadian Constitution," with K. Noonan*, The UMAP Journal 18.2 (1997) 95-104.
Other“A SMART Decade: Outcomes of an Integrated, Inclusive STEM Program,” with Hill, A., Parish, C., Pierce, D., et al. Frontiers in Education 8 (August 2023) https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1152339
“Mass Incarceration and Eviction Applications in Calculus: A First-Timer Approach,” with Keogh, L and Wares, J. PRIMUS 29:3-4 (2019):345-357 DOI: 10.1080/10511970.2018.1505792