Selenne Bañuelos (born January 29, 1985) is an American mathematician and associate professor of

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at California State University Channel Islands. Her research is in the areas of differential and difference equations and

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, with a focus on their applications to

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Early life, education, and career

Bañuelos was born Selenne Hayde Torres-Garcia to Alex Garcia and Georgina Torres, Mexican immigrants who raised her in the community of Boyle Heights, east of downtown

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. earned her

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degree in mathematics from the

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in 2007. She was awarded a

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in applied mathematics from the

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(USC) in 2013. Her dissertation ''Structured two-stage population model with migration between multiple locations in a periodic environment'' was supervised by Robert John Sacker. During her doctoral studies at USC, she was presented with the Department of Mathematics Denis Ray Estes Graduate Teaching Prize. She was a co-founder of the USC chapter of SACNAS. Bañuelos was part of the SACNAS Chapter Leadership Institute Alumni for her work at USC. Bañuelos joined the faculty at California State University Channel Islands in 2014 as an assistant professor of mathematics. She is currently an associate professor of mathematics. She is co-advisor to the SACNAS chapter at Channel Islands, a mentor for Math Alliance, and a mentor and advisor for the CSU Alliance PUMP (Preparing Undergraduates through Mentoring towards PhDs) Program. In 2014, Bañuelos was a Linton Poodry SACNAS Leadership Institute fellow and in 2015, she was a Project NExT, New Experiences in Teaching, fellow. In 2018, Bañuelos was featured on the Lathisms calendar. In 2020, she received the

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for Distinguished Teaching. She is included in deck 2 of EvenQuads which is a series of playing card decks that feature notable women mathematicians published by the

Association of Women in Mathematics The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is a professional society whose mission is to encourage women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences, and to promote equal opportunity for and the equal treatment o ...

References

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Selenne Bañuelos
at CSU Channel Islands {{DEFAULTSORT:Bañuelos, Selenne Living people American women mathematicians American academics of Mexican descent University of Southern California alumni California State University Channel Islands faculty University of California, Santa Barbara alumni 21st-century women mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians 1985 births 21st-century American women academics