Debra Carney
Debra Susan Carney is an American mathematics educator, and University Distinguished Teaching Professor of mathematics, at the Colorado School of Mines. Her work focuses on educating future secondary-school mathematics teachers.
Education and career
Carney majored in mathematics at the University of Vermont, graduating in 1991. She completed a Ph.D. in mathematical logic in 1998 at the University of [Maryland, College Park]. Her dissertation, Linear Structures with Few Substructures, was supervised by Michael C. Laskowski.After both completing doctorates in mathematics at the University of Maryland, she and her husband Nic Ormes became faculty members at the University of Denver, where her husband still teaches. In 2012, after nine years at the university, Carney moved to her present position at the Colorado School of Mines. She was named University Distinguished Teaching Professor for 2023–2024.