Judith Lynnette Covington is an American mathematician and mathematics educator who works as a professor of mathematics at

Louisiana State University Shreveport Louisiana State University Shreveport (LSU Shreveport or LSUS) is a public university in Shreveport, Louisiana. It is part of the Louisiana State University System. Initially, a two-year college, LSUS has expanded into a university with 25 u ...

(LSUS).

Education and career

Covington earned her Ph.D. in 1993 at the

University of Louisiana at Lafayette The University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette, University of Louisiana, ULL, or UL) is a Public university, public research university in Lafayette, Louisiana, United States. It has the largest enrollment within the nine-campus Universi ...

, with a dissertation in topological group theory jointly supervised by Victor P. Schneider and Bradd Clark, and in the same year joined the LSUS faculty. In the mid-1990s, she became one of the first cohort of fellows of

Project NExT MAA Project NExT (New Experiences in Teaching) is a program sponsored by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) to aid in the professional development of mathematicians, statisticians, and mathematics educators after they receive their PhD ...

, a professional development program of the

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, and she has continued to be associated with Project NExT as part of its leadership team since then. Beyond her work in teacher education at LSUS, she has also contributed to local mathematics education by founding the North Louisiana Math Teachers' Circle in 2010, and she was elected as the governor of the Louisiana–Mississippi section of the Mathematical Association of America in 2016.

Recognition

In 2004 Covington was named LSUS Elmer and Barbara Simon Distinguished Teaching Professor. The Louisiana–Mississippi section of the Mathematical Association of America gave her their Distinguished Teaching Award in 2012. In 2015 Covington was one of three winners of the

Deborah and Franklin Haimo Awards for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics The Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Awards for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics are awards given by the Mathematical Association of America to recognize college or university teachers "who have been widely recognized as ...

of the Mathematical Association of America.

References

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