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]

gollark: To be fair, brains degrade over time.
gollark: I mean, it's not obviously possible now, but that's kind of how progress works.
gollark: Why?
gollark: Or have a more general solution like transferring minds between bodies so you can just make a new one as needed.
gollark: Not with current technology.

References
  1. "Janet Barnett, Ph.D.", Contact and Profile Directory, Colorado State University–Pueblo, retrieved 2018-03-10
  2. Zaletel, Cora (May 10, 2015), CSU-Pueblo math professor earns distinguished teacher award, Colorado State University–Pueblo, retrieved 2018-03-10
  3. Perez, Gayle (September 5, 2006), "CSU-Pueblo Math Prof Surprised by Top Honor", The Pueblo Chieftain – via Peace Corps Online
  4. Zaletel, Cora (August 17, 2016), Professor Janet Barnett earns national teaching award, Colorado State University–Pueblo, retrieved 2018-03-10
  5. Janet Barnett served in Central African Republic in Bambari beginning in 1982, Peace Corps Online, retrieved 2018-03-10
  6. Janet Barnett at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  7. "2017 MAA Awards" (PDF), Mathematics People, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 64 (5): 511–512, May 2017
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