Teaching

I was instructor of record for each course listed below unless otherwise indicated.

Currently Teaching

Christopher Newport University

• Math 125 - 1 (Elementary Statistics), Spring 2025
• Math 125 - 2 (Elementary Statistics), Spring 2025
• Math 125 - 4 (Elementary Statistics), Spring 2025

Previously Taught

Christopher Newport University

• Math 125 - 4M (Elementary Statistics), Fall 2024
• Math 130 -7R (Advanced Algebra and Trigonometry), Fall 2024
• Math 115 - 1 (Contemporary Mathematics), Spring 2024
• Math 125 - 1 (Elementary Statistics), Spring 2024
• Math 115 - 1M (Contemporary Mathematics), Fall 2023
• Math 125 - 6M (Elementary Statistics), Fall 2023
• Math 130 - 4 (Precalculus), Fall 2023
• Math 130 - 4 (Precalculus), Spring 2023
• Math 130 - 5 (Precalculus), Spring 2023
• Math 130 - 6 (Precalculus), Spring 2023
• Math 125 - 10 (Elementary Statistics), Fall 2022
• Math 125 - 11M (Elementary Statistics), Fall 2022
• Math 125 - 12M (Elementary Statistics), Fall 2022
• Math 130 - 4 (Precalculus), Spring 2022
• Math 135 - 5 (Calculus for Business and Social Sciences), Spring 2022
• Math 135 - 6 (Calculus for Business and Social Sciences), Fall 2021

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

• Math 302 - 001 (Math Modeling for Elementary Education Majors), Spring 2020
• Math 104 - 009/601 (Applied Calculus), Fall 2019
• Math 302 - 001 (Math Modeling for Elementary Education Majors), Spring 2019
• Math 106 - 180/181 (Calculus 1 Lecture/Recitation), Fall 2018
• Math 203 - 006 (Contemporary Mathematics), Spring 2018
• Math 103 - 010 (College Algebra and Trigonometry), Fall 2017
• Math 301 - 501 (Geometry for Elementary Education Majors), Summer 2017
• Math 302 - 001 (Math Modeling for Elementary Education Majors), Spring 2017
• Math 103 - 010 (College Algebra and Trigonometry), Fall 2016
• Math 101 - 503 (College Algebra), Summer 2016
• Math 101 - 006 (College Algebra), Spring 2016
• Math 101 - 010 (College Algebra), Fall 2015
• (TA) Math 106 - 512 (Calculus 1 Recitation), Summer 2015
• (TA) Math 107 - 325 (Calculus 2 Recitation), Spring 2015
• (TA) Math 106 - 554 (Calculus 1 Recitation), Fall 2014
• (TA) Math 106 - 652 (Calculus 1 Recitation), Fall 2014

Research

I am primarily interested in mathematical biology with a current focus on applications of control theory to plant life history and ecology. I am also interested in scientific computing and computational fluid dynamics.

Publications

1. D. McMorris and G. Ledder, Optimal allocation of two resources in annual plants. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 22(6) (2025), 1464-1516.
2. D. McMorris, P. Pearson, and B. Yurk, A modified wavelet method for identifying transient features in time signals with applications to bean beetle maturation. Involve, a Journal of Mathematics, 10(1) (2016), 21-42.

Presentations

• Optimal Allocation of Two Resources in Annual Plants, UNL Dissertation Defense (July 2020)
• Plant Life History and Optimal Control, Nebraska Wesleyan University Math Club (November 2019)
• Investigating Plant Growth Through Mathematical Biology, Nebraska Wesleyan University STEM Seminar (March 2019)
• Using Optimal Control Theory to Model Resource Allocation in Annual Plants, Creighton University Department of Mathematics Colloquium/Great Plains Alliance Talk (November 2018)
• An Optimal Control Approach to Resource Allocation in Annual Plants, UNL MathBio Seminar (October 2018)
• An Application of Optimal Control to Resource Allocation in Annual Plants, Midwest Mathematical Biology Conference, UW - La Crosse (May 2018)
• Optimal Control Theory and Math Biology, Nebraska Wesleyan University Math Club (October 2017)
• Modified Wavelet Methods for Identifying Transitions in Bean Beetle Maturation (Poster), Hope College Celebration of Undergraduate Research (April 2014)
• Modified Wavelet Methods for Identifying Transitions in Bean Beetle Maturation (Poster), Michigan Mathematics Prize Competition Awards Day (March 2014)
• Identifying Transitions in Bean Beetle Maturation Using Modified Wavelet Methods, Hope College Mathematics Department Colloquium (October 2013)
• Identifying Transitions in Bean Beetle Maturation Using Modified Wavelet Methods, Midstates Consortium for Math and Science Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of Chicago (October 2013)