Tyler Seacrest earned his B.S. in Mathematics from Harvey Mudd College, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Tyler Seacrest has taught at the University of Montana Western since 2011, and enjoys working with students at all levels. For freshman and sophomore courses, he integrates hands-on activities to make mathematics more concrete, and he is interested in making mathematics research accessible to junior and senior level students. His research area is discrete mathematics, especially graph theory, a subject with a strong history of undergraduate research.