Terrie Christine Stevens, also known as T. Christine Stevens, is an American mathematician whose research concerns

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, a mentorship program for recent doctorates in mathematics, which she directed from 1994 until 2009.Project NExt

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Education and career

Stevens graduated from

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, September 10, 2009, retrieved 2015-01-25. and completed her doctorate in 1978 at

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under the supervision of

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. Her dissertation was ''Weakened Topologies for Lie Groups''. She held teaching positions at the

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Mount Holyoke College Mount Holyoke College is a Private college, private Women's colleges in the United States, women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States. It is the oldest member of the h ...

and at

Arkansas State University Arkansas State University (A-State or ASU) is a public university, public research university in Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States. It is the flagship campus of the Arkansas State University System and the second-largest university in the st ...

before joining

Saint Louis University Saint Louis University (SLU) is a private university, private Society of Jesus, Jesuit research university in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Founded in 1818 by Louis William Valentine DuBourg, it is the oldest university west of the Missi ...

, where for 25 years she was a professor of mathematics and computer science. She was also a Congressional Science Fellow assisting congressman Theodore S. Weiss in 1984–1985, and was a program officer at the

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in 1987–1989. After retiring from SLU, she became Associate Executive Director for Meetings and Professional Services of the

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Council member at large from 2011 to 2013.

Recognition

In 1997 Stevens received the Deborah and Franklin Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics. In 2004 she won the Gung and Hu Award for Distinguished Service to Mathematics of the

for her work on Project NExT.. In 2010 she was awarded the Smith College Medal by her alma mater. She has been a fellow of the

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since 2005, and in 2012, she became one of the inaugural

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retrieved 2015-01-25. She was the 2015 winner of the

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