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Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Donald Frank St. Mary Donald Frank St. Mary
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Other authors / contributors: | St. Mary, Donald Frank, 1940- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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Sound characteristics: | digital
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Digital file characteristics: | video file
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Notes: | Videographer, Matthew Hickey. Larry Crowe, interviewer. Recorded Amherst, Massachusetts 2012 October 8. Vendor-supplied metadata.
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Summary: | Mathematician and academic administrator Donald Frank St. Mary was born on July 22, 1940 in Lake Charles Louisiana. He earned his Ph.D. degree from the University of Nebraska in 1968. In 1994, St. Mary was selected by faculty in the department of mathematics and statistics at UMASS to be its principal academic leader with executive responsibility for all aspects of the department and was also appointed department head. From 1968 to 2002, he served on the board of directors of the Committee for the Collegiate Education of Black and Other Minority Students. St. Mary is internationally renowned for his research in Computational Ocean Acoustics. He was invited to lecture in Accra, Ghana, Honolulu, Hawaii, and Dublin, Ireland. St. Mary has authored, co-authored, and edited scholarly works for distinguished publications such as Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society and Journal of the American Acoustical Society.
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