Carolyn Ray Boone Mahoney was born on 1946 and is an American mathematician who served as president of Lincoln University of Missouri.
17 Facts About Carolyn Mahoney
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Carolyn Mahoney was born the sixth of thirteen children in 1946 in Memphis, Tennessee, to Stephen and Myrtle Boone.
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Carolyn Mahoney's grandmother cared for the children while her mother worked.
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Carolyn Mahoney graduated from Father Bertrand High School in 1964.
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Carolyn Mahoney attended Mount St Scholastica College, a Catholic, all-female college in Kansas for three years before finishing her degree in mathematics at Siena College in Memphis, Tennessee in 1970.
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Carolyn Mahoney then earned her master's degree in mathematics in 1972 and a doctorate in 1983, both from Ohio State University.
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Carolyn Mahoney's doctorate involved matroid theory and enumerative combinatorics, and was supervised by Thomas Allan Dowling.
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Carolyn Mahoney was the 25th black woman to earn a Ph.
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Carolyn Mahoney served on the test development committee for the College Board from 1986 to 1989.
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In 1989, Carolyn Mahoney was the first mathematician to be selected for the faculty at California State University San Marcos, and was one of twelve founding faculty of the San Marcos campus.
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In 1994 and 1995, Carolyn Mahoney served as a program director at the National Science Foundation, and she later worked as an administrator at Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina.
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In 2005, Carolyn Mahoney was named president of Lincoln University of Missouri.
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Carolyn Mahoney's research has focused largely on open problems in graph theory and combinatorics.
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Carolyn Mahoney believes that she has had a hard time finding collaborators due to the fact that she is a Black female in mathematics.
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Carolyn Mahoney is a proponent of educational reform, especially supporting cultural diversity in university faculty.
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Carolyn Mahoney believes that through the efforts of organizations such as the Mathematical Association of America and the Association for Women in Mathematics the environment for women in mathematics has improved.
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In 1989, Carolyn Mahoney was inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame.