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Suzanne Crifo

Assistant Professor of the Practice of Mathematics
Mathematics
120 Science Drive, Box 90320, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Metacognition in Mathematics: Enhancing Learning Through Strategy and Reflection - Department of Mathematical Sciences Colloquium · April 11, 2025 Invited Talk Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
STEM Advancement through Group Engagement (SAGE) Learning Communities: Developing Student Leaders (with Kimberly Bethea) - Promoting Women in Mathematics Special Session · January 2021 Invited Talk Joint Mathematics Meetings, Virtual
Forming Test Preparation Study Sessions: Logistics, Resources, and Community Engagement (with Andrea Marritt, Debbie Hughes, and Kim Bethea) · June 2020 Other Southeastern College Learning Center Association Virtual Conference
Some Maximal Dominant Weights and their Multiplicities for Affine Lie Algebra Representations - AMS Contributed Paper Session on Rings and Algebras · January 2019 National Scientific Meeting Joint Mathematics Meetings, Baltimore
An Introduction to Finite and Affine Lie Algebras and their Representation Theory - Mathematics & Computer Science Department Colloquium · December 2018 Invited Talk College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship


Activity Leader - FEMMES+ Capstone · March 2021 Community Outreach Virtual Volunteered with Bass Connections co-leaders to lead the activity "Slider Puzzles" for girls in fourth through sixth grade.

Service to the Profession


Volunteer Judge - MAA Undergraduate Student Poster Session · January 2021 Event Attendance Joint Mathematics Meetings, Virtual
Co-Coordinator - Workshop for Inclusive Teaching Practices · December 2020 Event/Organization Administration Virtual

Collaborated with Wesley Hamilton (UNC-CH) and Katherine Harris (NCSU) to organize this workshop that featured speakers from schools in the Triangle and beyond. Facilitated the practical session called "Feedback and Difficult Conversations"

Volunteer Judge - MAA Undergraduate Student Poster Session · January 2019 Event Attendance Joint Mathematics Meetings, Baltimore, MD

Service to Duke


Volunteer Co-Facilitator . Equity Session · July 2022 Event/Organization Administration Experiential Orientation program at Duke University, Durham, NC

Sessions for incoming first-year students focused on equity, identity, and belonging.

Peer Tutoring Coordinator Search Committee (Department) · June 2022 Committee Service Academic Resource Center - Duke University, Durham, NC

As chair, led the search committee to identify a new Peer Tutoring Coordinator within Peer Education.

Learning Consultant/STEM Specialist Search Committee (Department) · February 2022 Committee Service Academic Resource Center - Duke University, Durham, NC
Academic Guide Search Committee (Department) · May 2021 Committee Service Duke University, Durham, NC
Math Teaching Committee (Department) · March 2020 Committee Service

Academic & Administrative Activities


Math 105L/106L Coordinator (Fall 2023)