Biography:Chris Stevens (mathematician)
Terrie Christine Stevens, also known as T. Christine Stevens, is an American mathematician whose research concerns topological groups, the history of mathematics, and mathematics education.[1] She is also known as the co-founder of Project NExT, a mentorship program for recent doctorates in mathematics, which she directed from 1994 until 2009.[2][3][4]
Education and career
Stevens graduated from Smith College in 1970,[5] and completed her doctorate in 1978 at Harvard University under the supervision of Andrew M. Gleason. Her dissertation was Weakened Topologies for Lie Groups.[6][7]
She held teaching positions at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, at Mount Holyoke College and at Arkansas State University before joining Saint Louis University, where for 25 years she was a professor of mathematics and computer science.[8][6]
She was also a Congressional Science Fellow assisting congressman Theodore S. Weiss in 1984–1985,[1][5] and was a program officer at the National Science Foundation in 1987–1989.[1] After retiring from SLU, she became Associate Executive Director for Meetings and Professional Services of the American Mathematical Society.[9][6] She also served as an AMS Council member at large from 2011 to 2013.[10]
Recognition
In 2004 Stevens won the Gung and Hu Award for Distinguished Service to Mathematics of the Mathematical Association of America for her work on Project NExT.[6][8] In 2010 Stevens was awarded the Smith College Medal by her alma mater.[4][5] She has been a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 2005,[11] and in 2012, she became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[12] She was the 2015 winner of the Louise Hay Award of the Association for Women in Mathematics.[9]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Speaker bio, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, retrieved 2015-01-25.
- ↑ Project NExt, Mathematical Association of America, retrieved 2015-01-25.
- ↑ Higgins, Aparna (November 2009), "AMS Sponsors NExT Fellows", Notices of the AMS 56 (10): 1310, https://www.ams.org/notices/200910/rtx091001310p.pdf.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "MAA Member Chris Stevens Awarded Smith College Medal", MAA News (Mathematical Association of America), September 17, 2009, http://www.maa.org/news/math-news/maa-member-chris-stevens-awarded-smith-college-medal.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Smith College Rally Day: Honors, Hats and a Secret Revealed, Smith College, September 10, 2009, retrieved 2015-01-25.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Jackson, Allyn (January 2015), "Chris Stevens Joins AMS Executive Staff", Notices of the AMS 62 (1): 56–57, doi:10.1090/noti1201, https://www.ams.org/notices/201501/rnoti-p56.pdf.
- ↑ Chris Stevens at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Berry, Clayton (January 28, 2004), Professor Earns Highest Honor from Leading Mathematics Organization, Saint Louis University, http://www.slu.edu/readstory/more/3752, retrieved 2015-01-25.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 2015 AWM Louise Hay Award, Association for Women in Mathematics, retrieved 2015-01-25.
- ↑ "AMS Committees" (in en). http://www.ams.org/about-us/governance/committees/mal-past.html.
- ↑ Elected Fellows, AAAS, retrieved 2017-10-30.
- ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-01-25.
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