David Collingwood
David Collingwood is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at UW. Despite growing up in the flatlands of Kansas, he developed an early affection for hiking and climbing mountains after attending the National Outdoor Leadership School at the age of fourteen. He initially planned a career in the skilled trades, but an unanticipated series of events led to his attending college and ultimately receiving a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1983. He began his research career as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, after which he held an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship and appointments at Rutgers University, the University of Oregon and the University of California at San Diego. He joined the faculty at UW in 1988. Professor Collingwood's initial area of mathematical research was modern harmonic analysis, an area in which he explored the interaction between analysis, algebra and geometry. He has authored several research articles and four graduate level monographs. In the late 1990s, he became involved in a computational biology collaboration with a genetics lab at the UW, leading to the publication of pioneering research in the use of DNA microarray technology. Always passionate about his teaching, Professor Collingwood has been committed for over a decade to the improvement of undergraduate mathematics course offerings at the UW. He wrote and has revised the precalculus textbook used by the department since 1995. In June, 1999, he received a UW Distinguished Teaching Award.