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33: 197:(May 21, 1927 – January 28, 2021) was an American mathematics professor and administrator. She served on many committees and boards and contributed to mathematics, mathematics education, and increasing the participation of members of underrepresented groups in mathematics. She served as president of the 312:(AWM). Her AWM fellow citation read "for her profound and long-lasting effect in diversifying the committees and leadership of the MAA, during and beyond her term as its second woman president; for her value to the mathematics community as a pioneer and defender of women and underrepresented groups". 296:, in July 1996. She was a member of the advisory committee of the Harvard Calculus Consortium and of the Adolescence and Young Adult/Mathematics Standards committee for the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards. 605: 600: 462: 595: 615: 610: 292:(MAA) in 1989–1990; she was the second woman to serve as president of the MAA . She was on the planning committee for the International Congress in Mathematics Education in 268:(MSU), where she was Dean of Arts and Sciences. After retirement as Dean Emerita from MSU, she was a Senior Associate to the head of the Education Directorate at the 620: 565: 560: 273: 585: 625: 329: 358: 439: 524: 309: 144: 590: 289: 198: 252:
Barrett served as a mathematics faculty member at the universities of Utah and Tennessee, and headed the mathematics department at the
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In 2008 she received the MAA Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Award for Distinguished Service to Mathematics. She was a
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Women Becoming Mathematicians: Creating a Professional Identity in Post-World War II America
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in applied mathematics. She served as an administrator and mathematics faculty member at
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of the American Mathematical Society and part of the 2019 class of fellows of the
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for three years. She died in Knoxville, Tennessee, on January 28, 2021.
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for three years and then served as a Professor of Mathematics at the
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from 1973 to 1980. During her tenure there, she also worked at the
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MAA Gung and Hu Distinguished Service to Mathematics Award
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Houston, Texas
Knoxville, Tennessee
Rice University
University of Texas
University of Pennsylvania
American Mathematical Society
Association for Women in Mathematics
Thesis
Doctoral advisor
J. R. Kline
Mathematical Association of America
Houston, Texas
Rice University
University of Texas at Austin
University of Pennsylvania
John Robert Kline
Texas State College for Women
Texas Woman's University
University of Tennessee
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Northern Illinois University
Mississippi State University
National Science Foundation
United States Military Academy at West Point
American Mathematical Society
Mathematical Association of America
Madrid, Spain
fellow
Association for Women in Mathematics

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