Math Faculty

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Andrew-David Bjork, Ph.D

Assistant Professor, Mathematics

Phone: 541-962-3316
Email: adbjork@eou.edu
Office: LH-225

Dr. Andrew-David Bjork is a mathematician with an active research program in math education. He employs an active classroom where learners are challenged to become the co-creators of the mathematics they encounter. He is looking forward to helping prepare pre-service teachers of all levels, and is looking to involve Eastern Oregon undergraduates in research on teaching and learning mathematics.

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EK Esawi, Ph.D

Assistant Professor, Data Analytics

Phone: 541-962-3632
Email: eewasi@eou.edu
Office: LH-229

Dr. EK Esawi is a data scientist with interdisciplinary research and teaching interests. His research includes interest and expertise in environmental, geosocial, and healthcare analytics. His research emphasis is in the application of machine learning, data mining, and visualization in various fields. He teaches introductory and intermediate statistics, computational statistics, machine learning, data mining and visualization. 

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Bryan Fisher, Ph.D

Assistant Professor, Mathematics

Phone: 541-962-3320
Email: bfisher@eou.edu
Office: LH-237

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Kaz Marlette

Instructor, Mathematics

Phone: 541-962-3391
Email: kmarlett@eou.edu
Office: LH-228

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Rich McBride

Adjunct, Mathematics

Phone: NA
Email: rpmcbride@eou.edu
Office: NA

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Patty Sandoz

Instructor Online, Mathematics

Phone: NA
Email: psandoz@eou.edu
Office: NA

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Steve Tanner, Ph.D

Associate Professor, Mathematics

Phone: 541-962-3631
Email: stanner@eou.edu
Office: LH-238

Dr. Tanner has taught mathematics and statistics at EOU for over 20 years.  His research interests include probability, game theory, and optimal stopping problems.  He currently helps organize the Faculty Colloquium and Spring Symposium at EOU.  When not working on math problems he can be found playing the french horn with a variety of community musical groups.

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Anthony Tovar

Associate Professor, Mathematics & Physics

Phone: 541-962-3310
Email: atovar@eou.edu
Office: BH-107C

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Kyle Winkelmaier

Instructor, Mathematics

Phone: 541-962-3797
Email: kwinkelmaier@eou.edu
Office: LH-213

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Carol Wyatt

Adjunct, Mathematics

Phone: NA
Email: cjwyatt@eou.edu
Office: NA

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Amy Yielding, Ph.D

Professor, Chair, Mathematics

Phone: 541-962-3314
Email: ayielding@eou.edu
Office: LH-224

Dr Yielding has enjoyed teaching mathematics and statistics at EOU for over 12 years.  She strives to provide EOU students an excellent mathematical experience in their courses, whether lower or upper division. Since arriving at EOU, students have completed successful original and novel research projects in a wide range of mathematical areas with Dr Yielding. Outside the classroom, you will find her enjoying the amazing outdoors that surround the Grande Ronde Valley, hiking, biking, rafting, or harvesting morels and huckleberries.