Lisa W. Kay, Ph.D.
Foundation Professor
Education
- Ph.D., University of Kentucky
- M.S., University of Kentucky
- B.S., Eastern Kentucky University
Research & Academic Interests
- Statistics education
- Honors education
- Cluster detection
Publications
- Sciaraffa, M. A., Kay, L.W., & Kaelyn Herrin Prince. (2020). A study of Appalachian college students’ attitudes toward marriage. Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences Education, 37(1), 42-49.
- Patton, K., Coleman, D., & Kay, L. (2019). High-impact honors practices: An application of Astin’s I-E-O model to high-achieving honors and non-honors students at Eastern Kentucky University. J. Herron & A. Cognard-Black (Eds.), “Value Added” in the Undergraduate Honors Experience. Lincoln, NE: National Collegiate Honors Council. NCHC Monograph Series.
- Mundfrom, D. J., Smith, M. D., & Kay, L. W. (2018). The effect of multicollinearity on prediction in regression models. General Linear Model Journal, 44(1): 24-28. doi: 10.31523/glmj.044001.003
- Redmond, S. P., Costello, P. S., & Kay, L. W. (2016). The modern mathematics master’s degree II: A survey of U.S. programs. American Review of Mathematics and Statistics, 4(1): 1-8. doi: 10.15640/arms.v4n1a1
- Frost, L., and Kay, L. W. (2015). Where honors lives: Results from a survey of the structures and spaces of U.S. honors programs and colleges. In L. Frost, L. W. Kay, & R. Poe (Eds.), Housing Honors (pp. 3-42). Lincoln, NE: National Collegiate Honors Council. NCHC Monograph Series.
- Redmond, S. P., Costello, P. S., & Kay, L. W. (2014). The modern mathematics master’s degree: A survey of U.S. programs. American Review of Mathematics and Statistics, 2(2): 27-42. doi: 10.15640/arms.v2n2a2
Associations, Affiliations & Work History
- American Association of University Professors
- American Statistical Association
- Mathematical Association of America
- National Collegiate Honors Council
- National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- National Numeracy Network
Awards & Accolades
- Kentucky Section of the Mathematical Association of America (KYMAA) Distinguished Teaching Award, 2024
- EKU Foundation Professor, 2023
- Faculty Poster Award for “Kentucky Narratives and Numbers Take Two: Updating an Interdisciplinary Honors Course in Literature and Statistics,” 2017, National Collegiate Honors Council Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia
