Russell C. Walker

Russell C. Walker is a Teaching Professor Emeritus in the Carnegie Mellon University

Department of Mathematical Sciences. He earned his undergraduate degree in

mathematics from the University of Akron, and his Masters and Doctor of Arts in

Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon.

He was the Associate Head of the Carnegie Mellon Department of Mathematical Sciences from 1985 until 2007.

He was the winner of the Carnegie Mellon University Academic Advising Award,

2003-04, and while at Seton Hill, the Alpha Lambda Delta Book Award as Professor of the Year, 1982-83.

He is the author of two books, "Introduction to Mathematical Programming", the text for Models and Methods for Optimization in the Business Adminstration degree program at Carnegie Mellon, and "The Stone-Cech Compactification", an expanded version of his Doctor of Arts thesis.

His hobbies are art and tropical fish. He enjoys playing cribbage.