Mary D. Beisiegel is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at

Oregon State University Oregon State University (OSU) is a public land-grant, research university in Corvallis, Oregon. OSU offers more than 200 undergraduate-degree programs along with a variety of graduate and doctoral degrees. It has the 10th largest engineering co ...

. She is a Whiteley Faculty scholar for Teaching Excellence. Her research is in math education.

Education and career

Beisiegel received her PhD in

Mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

from the

University of Alberta The University of Alberta, also known as U of A or UAlberta, is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford,"A Gentleman of Strathcona – Alexander Cameron Rutherfor ...

in 2009. Her dissertation, ''Being (Almost) a Mathematician: Teacher Identity Formation in Post-Secondary Mathematics'', was supervised by Elaine Simmt, David Pimm, and Terrance Ronald Carson.

Awards and honors

Beisiegel received the

Mathematical Association of America The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) is a professional society that focuses on mathematics accessible at the undergraduate level. Members include university, college, and high school teachers; graduate and undergraduate students; pure a ...

's Henry L. Adler Award in 2017.

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