Rate My Professor Jonelle Hook

Jonelle Hook, Ph.D., serves as Department Chair and Associate Professor in the Mathematics and Computer Science Department at Mount St. Mary's University, where she has been teaching since the fall of 2010. She earned dual B.S. degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from Misericordia University, followed by an M.S. and Ph.D. in Mathematics from Lehigh University. During her tenure at the Mount, Hook developed key courses including the Core Curriculum's Mathematical Thinking and an online version of Calculus I. She teaches the three-course Calculus sequence, Discrete Mathematics, Number Theory, Graph Theory, and Algebraic Structures. Hook has mentored undergraduate students on research projects and honors theses in mathematics. She has been department chair since 2021 and advises the student chapters of the Association for Women in Mathematics and Pi Mu Epsilon Honor Society. Additionally, since 2023, she has served as Faculty Athletics Representative, representing faculty in NCAA relations and enhancing the student-athlete experience. In 2013, she was the honored faculty speaker at the SPARC Festival, introducing the Mount community to Ramsey theory.

Hook's research focuses on graph theory, with projects in Ramsey theory, graph labeling, and distance in graphs. Her publications include "Recent developments in star-critical Ramsey numbers" in Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing (2024, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, Vol. 448); "The proper diameter of a graph" in Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory (2020, with V. Coll, C. Magnant, K. McCready, and K. Ryan); "Coprime and prime labelings of graphs" in Journal of Integer Sequences (2016, Vol. 19, with A. Berliner, N. Dean, A. Marr, A. Mbirika, and C. McBee); "Critical graphs for R(Pn,Pm) and the star-critical Ramsey number for paths" in Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory (2015); and "Star-critical Ramsey numbers" in Discrete Applied Mathematics (2011, with G. Isaak). Notable awards and fellowships include Co-PI on a $174,996 Henry Luce Foundation Clare Boothe Luce Program grant (2016-2018, with Patti Kreke); research grants from Texas State University (2012), NSA/NSF (2012), and AIM/NSF (2012); and the 2011 Project NExT Fellowship from the Mathematical Association of America.