Beverly A. Thurber, Assistant Professor of Humanities and Natural Sciences

Thurber has been a member of the Shimer faculty since 2009. She taught Fluid Mechanics, Writing about Engineering Problems, and Calculus at Cornell University and Mathematics and Figure Skating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). 

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Cornell University, 2009

M.Ph., Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic
University of Cambridge, 2002

B.S., Mathematics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001

B.S., Humanities
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001

ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS

Cornell-Heidelberg Exchange Fellowship, 2007-2008
James F. Slevin Assignment Sequence Prize, 2007
Cornell University Provost's Diversity Fellowship, Fall 2006
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2003-2006
General Electric Foundation Fellowship, Fall 2002
Cambridge Overseas Trust Bursary, 2001-2002
Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications): Meritorious, 2000; Honorable Mention, 2001

PUBLICATIONS AND COLLOQUIA

"An icy adventure in Friðþjófs saga ins frækna," presented at the Fiske Conference on Medieval Icelandic Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, May 2009

"How fast could Vikings skate?" presented at the Fiske Conference on Medieval Icelandic Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, May 2007

"Bone skates and climate dynamics," presented at the Fiske Conference on Medieval and Icelandic Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, May 2006

J.W.M. Bush, B.A. Thurber, and F. Blanchette, "Particle clouds in homogeneous and stratified environments," Journal of Fluid Mechanics 289:29-54, 2003