Associate Professor and Chair

E-mail:
david.torain@hamptonu.edu

RESEARCH:

Mathematical Modeling,
Partial Differential Equations

Welcome to my Web Page

I would like to thank God for my life and all the opportunities that He has given me. Mathematics is my gift, and I like to share that gift with my students. When students leave my class, they are able to do three-dimensional moving objects like the one shown below, using the math software Maple.

Some of my Fellowships, Awards, Grants, and Honors:

• Board of Directors, Virginia Heroes Incorporated, Founder: Arthur R. Ashe, Jr., Richmond, Virginia, 2009
• Scholar in the NASA Motivating Undergraduates in Science and Technology (MUST) Project, Hispanic College Fund, NASA, 2009-2010
• Assistant Sunday School Superintendent, Fifth Baptist Church, Richmond, Virginia, 2009 - 2011.
• Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovation Through Institutional Integration (I3) Program Regional Outreach Workshop for Minority-serving Institutions, Washington, DC, September 26-27, 2008
• Virginia Space Grant Consortium (VSGC), Aerospace Partnership in Education, Research and Industry, 2008
• Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics (CURM), Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, 2007 − 2008
• University of Nebraska Medical Center: HBCU/CC Alliance Faculty Research Fellowship, University of Nebraska Lincoln, June 10 − August 10, 2007
• Nominated for the Scott and Stringfellow Outstanding Professor Award, Virginia Union University, 2006 − 2007
• UNCF/Mellon Faculty/Doctoral Fellow, Clark Atlanta University, 2004 - 2006
• IBM Faculty Fellowship Grant, Clark Atlanta University, 2003 - 2004
• IBM Faculty Fellowship Grant, Clark Atlanta University, 2002 - 2003
• National Science Foundation HBCU Mentor Award, Clark Atlanta University, 2001 - 2002
• Outstanding Young Man of America Award, 1996
• Honorable Discharge, United States Army Reserve, November 7, 1994
• Graduate Student President, North Carolina State University, 1993 - 1994
• Military Police Officer Commission, United States of America, 1989

The classes that I teach: