“Working at Michigan Tech in the Department of Mathematical Sciences has been a genuine privilege, one which has allotted me many opportunities to advance myself as a researcher, a teacher, and as a professional. Our supportive and collaborative culture has allowed me to publish three papers in Integers, The Ramanujan Journal, and Discrete Mathematics, as well as present my research at many conferences and seminars during my time here. For that, and much more than can be written here, I owe a debt of gratitude to my colleagues.
I would particularly like to thank Philip Cuthbertson, Robert Schneider, my advisor William Keith, and also Andrew Sills of Georgia Southern University for their various contributions to my success at Michigan Tech. Having been awarded the Finishing Fellowship, I also sincerely extend my gratitude to those on the Graduate Dean Awards Advisory Panel for their recognition of my achievements and for giving me the opportunity to focus exclusively on my research in my final semester. ”