Draft:Jessica McDonald
Canadian mathematician
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Jessica McDonald is a Canadian mathematician and professor at Auburn University who works primarily in graph theory. Her primary interests are in structure, colouring, and flows of graphs.
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Submission declined on 1 August 2025 by DoubleGrazing (talk). This draft's references do not show that the subject meets Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion for academics. The draft requires either:
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Comment: Hi, thanks for your submission. In general asssociate professors rarely have accumulated the type of body of work and accolades that results in academic notability. Of the peer-reviewed journal articles (co)-authored by the subject, none appear to be highly-cited, even in a low citation field like math. I don't see any other criteria passes either, such as election to prestigious organizations, named chair, or head editor at a major journal. Speaking at a conference or workshop does not confer inherent academic notability. I think it may just be a bit too soon in this person's academic career. Thank you, Zzz plant (talk) 22:53, 1 August 2025 (UTC)
- Comment: I don't see anything there that would obviously satisfy WP:NPROF, and primary sources cannot establish notability per WP:GNG either. If the former is being asserted, please provide evidence that at least one of the criteria listed at WP:NACADEMIC is clearly and objectively met. DoubleGrazing (talk) 12:37, 1 August 2025 (UTC)
- Mount Allison University (BS, 2003)
- University of Waterloo (MMath, 2004; PhD, 2009)
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| Fields | Mathematics |
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| Thesis | Multigraphs with High Chromatic Index (2009) |
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Education
In 2003, McDonald obtained a bachelor of science with honours from Mount Allison University. She receieved a master's degree in 2004 and completed a PhD in mathematics in 2009 from the University of Waterloo.[1] Her dissertation, Multigraphs with High Chromatic Index, was supervised by Penny Haxell.[2]
Career
In 2010, McDonald became a NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at Simon Fraser University. In 2012, McDonald was hired as an assistant professor at Auburn University. She was promoted to associate professor in 2018,[3][1] and to full professor in 2025.[4]
McDonald is on the editorial board for the journal Graphs and Combinatorics.[5] In 2017, she help run the mini-symposia on graph coloring for the 26th British Combinatorial Conference.[6]
In 2014, McDonald became the faculty coordinator for the Auburn Mathematical Puzzle Challenge.[7]
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