A. The first place I pinned was at the University of Tampa.  This is where my husband and I met then received our undergraduate degrees.  Secondly, I pinned Mount Timbora whose eruption in April 1815 influenced global climate, including the "year without a summer" in North America and Europe. Painting of the period include a dingy sky and being stuck indoors was the impetuous for Mary Shelley to begin writing Frankenstein.  Finally, I pinned the Great Pyramid of Giza (now a UNESCO World Heritage Site) because the vast desert was transformed by the building of this burial tomb for Pharaoh Khufu (political and religious practice).

B. I am a professor of mathematics and statistics at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Along with a Humanities professor, I have been working in Humanistic STEM as part of our general education program. We have co-developed courses in our separate departments and partnered with other professors in other departments to do the same. <a href=" removed link ">What Is Humanistic STEM and Why Do We Need It? There is exactly one co-taught course on our campus and a full third of it is on the novel Frankenstein where the interaction of science, ethics, and a really good story that perfectly make our case for the need to integrate these two meta-disciplines.

Personally, I'm married with two adult children and a son-in-law. We are all world travelers and readers in a variety of genres.  I love cozy mysteries and watch a lot of "cerebral" mysteries from the UK, Australia, New Zealand and have recently discovered a good one from South Africa.

C. Geography makes me think of (1) cartography because I enjoy maps made before technology made them as precise as they are now; (2) GPS for the opposite reason, the view from space gave us a much wider perception of geography - etymology: describing the Earth's surface; and (3) Age of Exploration when European nations discovered how large the world was - admittedly being not respectful of cultures not like their own.