Debra Carney

Debra (Deb) Carney is teaching professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at the Colorado School of Mines.  She grew up in Massachusetts and received her B.S. in mathematics from the University of Vermont in 1991 and then earned her Ph.D. in Mathematical Logic from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1998. After graduate school she quickly determined her true passion was for the teaching and learning of mathematics and has held several faculty roles with a teaching emphasis in universities across the country. She is interested in innovative teaching techniques that improve student Learning, including active learning. Recent projects at Mines revolve around partially flipped models of instruction for both linear algebra and calculus and her research interests are in the area of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

Deb has also developed a passion for mentoring women in mathematics. In 2013, She co-created and currently co-advises the Society for Women in Mathematics (SWiM) at Mines. In 2019 SWiM was an awarded an Association for Women in Mathematics Student Chapter Award for Professional Development and recently Deb was named to the 2022 AWM class of fellows https://awm-math.org/awards-awm-fellows-2022-awm-fellows/ for her mentoring work.

Deb enjoys spending time with her mathematician husband and two kids, ages 16 and 21 (in 2022). For outdoor pursuits she enjoys walking, hiking, and paddle boarding. For indoor pursuits she enjoys bar trivia, board games, and reading.