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Cozzens, Margaret

  • Cozzens, Margaret
  • Margaret (Midge) Cozzens
  • Staff, Faculty, Executive Committee
  • Role: DIMACS Associate Director for Education
  • Unit: Rutgers University - DIMACS
  • Contact Information:

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    Telephone: (732) 445-4577
    Fax: (732) 445-5932
    Postal Address:
    DIMACS
    Rutgers University
    96 Frelinghuysen Road, Room 419
    Piscataway, NJ 08854-8018
  • Organization: Rutgers University
  • Interests: Discrete mathematical modeling, graph theory, game theory, mathematical psychology, network vulnerability, operations research, technology, mathematics and science education

  • Associate Director for Education of DIMACS, the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science.

    Education and Outreach Director of CCICADA, the Command, Control and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis, a Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence

    Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

  • Discrete Mathematical Modeling, Graph Theory, Game Theory, Mathematical Psychology, Network Vulnerability, Operations Research, Technology, Mathematics and Science Education.

    • 2019 - 2023: Director of Research & Co-Director of Module Development, Women in Computer Science Initiative, funded by the Chancellors Office and the Gates Foundation through Northeastern University
    • 2021 - 2030: Director of Education, SENTRY, a DHS Center of Excellence based at Northeastern University, a 10 year project totalling $26 million
    • 2018 - 2023: PI and Project Director of DRK-12 Teacher Professional Development for Embedding Computational Thinking in Math and Science funded by National Science Foundation
    • 2012 - 2020: PI and Project Director of Planning for a Sustainable Future, at DIMACS, funded by the National Science Foundation
    • 2012 - 2016: co-PI and Workshop Manager of Mathematics for Planet Earth 2013+ funded by the National Science Foundation
    • 2010 - 2016: PI and Project Director for Value of Computational Thinking Across Grade Levels, DIMACS, funded by the National Science Foundation
    • 2010 - 2015: CoPI and Project Director for Interdisciplinary Mathematics and Biology, at DIMACS, funded by the National Science Foundation
    • 2009 - 2013: Rutgers Mathematics Department MSP grant for Middle School Teachers
    • 2006 - 2010: Manager of the Bio-Math Connection Project work with DIMACS, Rutgers University, funded by the National Science Foundation
    • 2009 - 2011: Mentoring of REU students during the summer and beyond, two in 2009 and three in 2010

    • Associate Director, Knowles Science Teaching Foundation, 1/06 - 8/07
    • Colorado Institute of Technology
      President and CEO, 4/03 - 4/06
      Vice President and Chief Academic Office (on leave from CU-Denver), 3/01-12/01
    • University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences
      Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs and Provost, 7/98 - 3/03
      Professor of Mathematics (continued to teach at CU, two courses a year, while President of CIT and while Vice Chancellor at CU; graduate Game Theory and undergraduate Math for Liberal Arts), 7/98 - 5/06
    • National Science Foundation
      Director of the Division of Elementary, Secondary and Informal Science Education, 12/92 - 6/98
      Senior Executive Service Appointment (SES) - January 1993
      SES Promotions - April 1994; April 1995; April 1996 - SES-4 (cap).
      Section Head, Instructional Materials Development, 6/92 - 12/92
      Program Officer, Instructional Materials Development, IPA, 8/91 - 6/92
    • Northeastern University, Boston MA
      Professor and Chairperson, Department of Mathematics, 1988-92
      Associate Professor of Mathematics, 1984-88
      Assistant Professor of Mathematics, 1980-84
    • Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
      Visiting Scholar, Department of Psychology and Social Relations, 1986-87
    • Rutgers, the State University, NJ
      Teaching Assistant in Mathematics, 1977-80
      Founder and Director of a program to Combat Math Anxiety in Returning Women, Douglass College, 1977-80
      Teaching Assistant in Mathematics, 1965-67
    • Rider University, Lawrenceville NJ
      Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences, 1975-77
      Assistant Professor of Mathematics, 1967-74
    • State University of NY at Geneseo
      Instructor of Mathematics,1963-65
    • Greece Olympia High School, Greece, NY
      Teacher of Mathematics, 1962-63

    • Rutgers University, Ph.D. and M.S. in Mathematics
    • University of Rochester, B.A. in Mathematics and English
    • 2005 Colorado Woman of Distinction Award

  • 1. Recurrence Relations - Counting Backward (with Porter, R.), HIMAP Module - No. 2, COMAP Inc., 1985.
    2. Problem Solving Using Graphs (with Porter, R.), HIMAP Module - No. 6, COMAP Inc., 1987.
    3. Mathematics and its Applications to Management, Life and Social Sciences with Discrete and Finite Mathematics (with Porter, R.), Lexington: D.C. Heath & Co., 1987.
    4. Mathematics with Calculus and its Applications to Management, Life, and Social Sciences (with Porter, R.), Lexington: D.C. Heath & Co., 1987.
    5. The Challenge and Promise of K-8 Science Education Reform, Foundations: Monographs for Professsionals in Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education, Volume 1, March 1997.
    6. Questions for the 21st Century, Office of Academic and Student Affairs, University of Colorado at Denver, May 1999.
    7. Lessons from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study - Repeat (with Fuhrman, S.), Education Statistics Quarterly, Vol. 3, Issue 1.
    8. Increasing the Quantity and Quality of the Mathematical Sciences Workforce Through Vertical Integration and Cultural Change: Stories of Innovations and Culture Change, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2008.
    9. BioMath in the Schools (with F.S. Roberts, eds.), American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2011.
    10. Encryption for Liberal Arts Students (with S. Miller and W. Pegden), American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2012, to be published.

  • 1. Nearly Cycle Complete and Nearly Cocycle Complete Graphs (with Maurer, S.B.), Congressus Numeratum, 27 (1979).
    2. Double Semiorder and Double Indifference Graphs (with Roberts, F.S.), SIAM J. of Algebraic and Discrete Methods, 3 (1982), 566-583.
    3. T-Colorings of Graphs and the Channel Assignment Problem (with Roberts, F.S.), Congressus Numeratum, 35 (1982).
    4. Computing the Boxicity of a Graph by Covering its Complement by Cointerval Graphs (with Roberts, F.S.), Discrete Applied Math., 6 (1983), 217-228.
    5. The General Channel Assignment Problem (with Wang, D-I.), Congressus Numeratum, 43 (1983).
    6. On k-Suitable Sets of Arrangements and the Boxicity of a Graph (with Roberts, F.S.), J. Comb. Inf. and Syst. Sciences, 9 (1984), 14-24.
    7. Computing the Circular Dimension of a Graph is an NP-Complete Problem, SIAM J. of Computing, (1984).
    8. Threshold Dimension of Graphs (with Leibowitz, R.), SIAM Journal of Alg. and Disc. Methods, 5 (1984).
    9. Closed Neighborhood Containment Graphs (with Wang, D-I.), Congressus Numeratum, 46 (1984).
    10. Mutidimensional Guttman Scales and Threshold Graphs (with Leibowitz, R.), J. of Math. Psych., (1987).
    11. On Minimum Critically n-Edge Connected Graphs (with Wu, S.S.), SIAM Journal of Alg. and Disc. Methods, 8 (1987), 659-669.
    12. Dominating Sets in Social Network Graphs (with Kelleher, L.), Math. Soc. Sciences, 16 (1988), 267-279.
    13. Graphs that are n-edge Connected and k-edge Critical (with Wu, S.S.), Disc. Math., (1989).
    14. Maximum Critical n-edge Connected Graphs (with Wu, S.S.), J. of Graph Theory, 13 (1989), 559-568.
    15. Hamiltonian Elimination Orderings of Interval Graphs (with Yen, S.), Europ. J. on Comb. and Graph Theory, (1989).
    16. On Dimensional Properties of Graphs (with Roberts, F.S.), Graphs and Combinatorics, 5 (1989), 29-46.
    17. A Graph Partitioning Approach to Speech Decoding (with Deller, J., Hsu, D., and Venkatesh, C.G.), Circuits and Systems.
    18. Consecutive Ones Property for Matrices and Graphs (with Mahadev, N.G.), Springer Verlag Lecture Notes Series in Mathematics and its Applications: Applications of Combinatorics and Graph Theory to the Biological and Social Sciences, 17 (1989), 75-93.
    19. Separator Theorems for Nonplanar Graphs and their Applications to Various Decoding Problems, SIAM Discrete Math., (1989).
    20. Clique Dominating Sets (with Kelleher, L.), Annals of Disc. Math., (1990).
    21. Dominating Cliques in Graphs (with Kelleher, L.), Discrete Math., 86 (1990), 1-16.
    22. Critical Neighborhood Connectivity (with Wu, S.S.Y.), Ars Combinatorica, 29 (1990), 149-160.
    23. A Graph Partitioning Approach to Sentence Level Speech Decoding (with Deller, J.R. Jr., and Venkatesh, C.G.), IEEE Trans. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, (1991).
    24. Real Unit Concatenation Structures and Archimedeaness, J. of Math. Psych..
    25. Recognizing Mixed Diagonal Consecutive Ones Graphs (with Mahadev, N.G.), SIAM J. of Computing.
    26. The Relationship between the Threshold Dimension of Split Graphs and other Dimensional Parameters of Graphs (with Halsey, M. D.), Discrete Applied Math., 30 (1991), 125-135.
    27. Greedy Algorithms for T-colorings of Graphs and the Meaningfulness of Conclusions about them (with Roberts, F. S.), J. of Comb. and Inf. Sys., 16 (1991), 271-318.
    28. Quo-Vadis Graph Theory Applications, Proceedings of the Quo-Vadis Graph Theory Meeting in Fairbanks Alaska - 1999.
    29. Issues in International Undergraduate Mathematics Education, Proceedings of the International Congress on Mathematics, ICME'7, (1992).
    30. Thoughts on Recrutiting Women (with Peden, I.), Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, 23 (1993).
    31. Tenacity, An Optimal Parameter for Graph Stability (with Moazzami, D., and Stueckle, S.), Proc. of the Seventh Inter Conf. in Graph Theory, Comb., Algorithms, and Appl., (1994).
    32. Tenacity of Harary Graphs (with Moazzami, D., and Stueckle, S.), J. of Combin. Math. and Combin. Comput., 16 (1994), 33-56.
    33. Bounds of Vertex Neighbor Integrity of Graphs (with Wu, Shu-shih Yang), Ars Combinatorica, (1994).
    34. Edge Neighbor Integrity of Trees (with Wu, Shu-shih Yang), Australasian J. of Combinatorics, 10 (1994), 163-174.
    35. Vertex-Neighbor Integrity of Powers of Cycles (with Wu, Shu-shih Yang), Ars Combinatorica, (1994).
    36. Implementing Standards-based Curriculum in the last half of the Decade (with Robinson, E), ESIE ACCESS, (1994).
    37. Extreme Values of the Edge-Neighbor-Connectivity (with Wu, Shu-shih Yang), Ars Combinatorica, 39 (1995), 199-210.
    38. A Change in Thinking is Required - transitions in education at all levels, SYNERGY, (1995).
    39. Vertex Neighbor Integrity of Trees (with Wu, Shu-shih Yang), Ars Combinatorica, 43 (1996), 169-180.
    40. Education, Ecomonics and Federal Policy, Report to the Office of Science and Technology Policy, (1996).
    41. Algebra for all, but not necessarily a discrete course (with Kepner, H.), The Mathematics Teacher, (1996).
    42. Bounds of Edge-Neighbor Integrity of Graphs (with Wu, Shu-shih Y.), Aust. J. of Comb., 15 (1997), 71-80.
    43. Discrete Mathematics: A Vehicle for Problem Solving and Excitement, DIMACS Series in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, 36 (1997), 67-74.
    44. Education for African American Children, National Council of Teachers Mathematics Monograph, (1998).
    45. The Context of Higher Education (with Gerlenter, M.), AASCU publication, (1999).
    46. A Statewide Rising Junior Exam - Challenges and Opportunities (with Gerlenter, M.), (1999).
    47. The Technological Workforce of the 21st Century¡, CIT, June 2003.
    48. Science and Technology Are Moving at the Speed of Light Is the Workforce Ready? CIT, April 2005.
    52. Integrating Mathematics and Biology at the High School Level, COMAP UMAP Journal editorial, October 2010.
    49. Integrating Mathematics and Biology in the High School Curriculum¡, BioMath in the Schools, to be published.
    50. TD align="left">Food Webs, Competition Graphs, and Habitat Formation¡. Journal of Mathematical Modeling of Natural Phenomena, 2011, accepted.
    51. Edge Control in Signed Graphs¡ (with T.M. Wang and C.M. Lin). Mathematics and Computer Modeling, 2011, submitted.