Biography:Janet Barnett
Janet Heine Barnett is a professor of mathematics at Colorado State University–Pueblo, interested in set theory, mathematical logic, the history of mathematics, women in mathematics, and mathematics education.[1]
Education and career
Barnett is originally from Pueblo, Colorado.[2] She did her undergraduate studies at Colorado State University, entering as an engineering student but switching to a double major in mathematics and humanities.[3] She graduated in 1981,[4] served in the Peace Corps teaching mathematics in Bambari in the Central African Republic from 1982 to 1984,[5] and in doing so discovered her love for teaching mathematics.[3]
She completed her doctorate in 1990, at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her dissertation, Random Reals, Cohen Reals and Variants of Martin's Axioms, concerned set theory; it was supervised by Richard Laver.[6] In the same year she joined the CSU Pueblo faculty.[4]
Recognition
In 2015, Barnett won the Burton W. Jones Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of the Mathematical Association of America.[2] In 2017, she won the Deborah and Franklin Haimo Awards for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics, for excellence in teaching reaching beyond her own campus.[4][7] The award recognized in particular her work in integrating the history of mathematics, and its original source documents, into the teaching of mathematics, and her mentorship of mathematics schoolteachers.[4]
References
- ↑ "Janet Barnett, Ph.D.", Contact and Profile Directory (Colorado State University–Pueblo), https://www.csupueblo.edu/profile/janet-barnett/index.html, retrieved 2018-03-10
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Zaletel, Cora (May 10, 2015), CSU-Pueblo math professor earns distinguished teacher award, Colorado State University–Pueblo, https://www.csupueblo.edu/news/2015/05-10-distinguished-teacher-award.html, retrieved 2018-03-10
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Perez, Gayle (September 5, 2006), "CSU-Pueblo Math Prof Surprised by Top Honor", The Pueblo Chieftain, http://peacecorpsonline.org/messages/messages/467/2058128.html
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Zaletel, Cora (August 17, 2016), Professor Janet Barnett earns national teaching award, Colorado State University–Pueblo, https://www.csupueblo.edu/news/2016/08-17-janet-barnett-national-teaching-award.html, retrieved 2018-03-10
- ↑ Janet Barnett served in Central African Republic in Bambari beginning in 1982, Peace Corps Online, http://peacecorpsonline.org/messages/messages/467/2038421.html, retrieved 2018-03-10
- ↑ Janet Barnett at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "2017 MAA Awards", Notices of the American Mathematical Society 64 (5): 511–512, May 2017, http://www.ams.org/publications/journals/notices/201705/rnoti-p510.pdf
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