Jennifer Quinn
Jenny taught in and chaired the mathematics department at Occidental College before moving to the University of Washington Tacoma in 2007. In addition to her professorship in the Mathematics department there, she served four years as Associate Director for the UW Tacoma School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. She has held many positions of national leadership in mathematics including Executive Director for the Association for Women in Mathematics, Second Vice President of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), co-editor of MAA's Math Horizons, and, currently chair of MAA's Council on Publications and Communications.
She received a national Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching in 2007, and the 2006 Beckenbach Book award for Proofs That Really Count: The Art of Combinatorial Proof in 2006, co-authored with Arthur Benjamin. As a combinatorial scholar, Jenny thinks that beautiful proofs are as much art as science. Simplicity, elegance and transparency should be the driving principles. She strives to bring this same ethic to her professional service and administrative work.
A die-hard supporter of the MAA, Jenny serves as chair of the Council on Publications and Communications, leading the Governance and Communications Taskforce, and a popular speaker in the Section Visitor's Program.
