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Smith, S.A., Gong, R. (2022). Braiding dynamics in active nematics. Frontiers in Physics, 10.


Smith, P., Bennett, L., & Paral, R. (2021) Making the Third Ghetto. Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City, . 


Smith, P. How new is urban renewal? Class, redevelopment and Black politics. Nonsite.org, 29. Retrieved from:


Pon-Barry, H., St. John, A., Packard, B. W., &  Stephenson, C. (2017). Addressing the CS capacity challenge by improving undergraduate peer mentoring. ACM Inroads, 8(3), 43–47.


Pon-Barry, H., Packard, B. W., & St. John, A. (2017). Expanding capacity and promoting inclusion in introductory computer science: A focus on near-peer mentor preparation and code review. Computer Science Education, 27(1), 54–77.


Alyxander Burns*, Bernd Schulze, Audrey St. John. Persistent Multi-Robot Formations with Redundancy. In Proc. of 13th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS ’16), 2016.
* indicates undergraduate author


Heather Pon-Barry, Audrey St. John, Becky Packard, Barbara Rotundo. Megas and Gigas Educate (MaGE): A Curricular Peer Mentoring Program. Poster in Proc. of 47th ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education (SIGCSE 2016), Memphis, TN, 2016.


James Farre*, Helena Kleinschmidt*, Jessica Sidman, Audrey St. John, Stephanie Stark*, Louis Theran, Xilin Yu*. Algorithms for detecting dependencies and rigid subsystems for CAD. Computer Aided Geometric Design, 47: 130-149, 2016.
* indicates undergraduate author


St. John, A.  AMS Blog on Teaching and Learning Mathematics, April 2015


Rittika Shamsuddin*, Milka Doktorova*, Sheila Jaswal, Audrey Lee-St. John and Kathryn McMenimen. Computational Prediction of Hinge Axes in Proteins. BMC Bioinformatics, 15(8), 2014
* indicates undergraduate author