GENESEO, N.Y. – Anthony J. Macula, SUNY Geneseo professor of mathematics, is serving as a 2015-16 American Association for the Advancement of Science/American Mathematical Society Congressional Fellow.
AAAS administers the program, which allows fellows to spend a year working on the staff of a member of the Congress or a congressional committee, working as special legislative assistant in legislative and policy areas requiring scientific and technical input. Macula is working as a fellow in the office of Congressman Jim McDermott and is helping to make recommendations on cybersecurity, trade and education.
Macula earned his doctorate in mathematics from Wesleyan University and has been at SUNY Geneseo since 1993. His research has focused on pure and applied mathematics, primarily in combinatorics, group testing, information theory, mathematical biology, math education and topology.
Among his accomplishments, Macula was a rotating program officer in the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the National Science Foundation, where he served the broad mathematical community in the Division of Mathematical Sciences.
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