Shandelle Henson

Shandelle Marie Henson (born 1964)^[1] is an American mathematician and mathematical biologist known for her work in population dynamics.^[2] She is a professor of mathematics and ecology at Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan, and the editor-in-chief of the journal Natural Resource Modeling.^[3]

Henson was an undergraduate at Southern College (now Southern Adventist University), and a visiting student at Harvard University,^[3] graduating from Southern College in 1987 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics, summa cum laude, as one of the college's five Southern Scholars for that year.^[4] She studied mathematical logic at Duke University, earning a master's degree in 1989, and completed a Ph.D. in 1994 at the University of Tennessee.^[3] Her dissertation, Individual-based Physiologically Structured Population and Community Models,^[5] was on partial differential equations in population dynamics,^[3] and was supervised by Thomas G. Hallam.^[5]

After postdoctoral research as Hanno Rund Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona, Henson joined the faculty at the College of William & Mary in 1999, and moved to Andrews University in 2001. There, she was promoted to full professor in 2006, chaired the mathematics department from 2011 to 2016, and added a second affiliation as a professor of ecology in the department of biology in 2016.^[3]

Henson is the co-author, with J. M. Cushing, R. F. Costantino, Brian Dennis, and Robert Desharnais, of the book Chaos in Ecology: Experimental Nonlinear Dynamics (Academic Press, 2003).^[6] She is also the author of a biography of Sam Campbell, titled Sam Campbell: Philosopher of the Forest (Three Lakes Historical Society and TEACH Services, 2001).

In 2007, Southern Adventist University gave Henson their alumnus of the year award.^[7]

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