Irene Mulvey is an American mathematician.

Career

Mulvey completed her doctoral dissertation, titled Periodic, Recurrent and Non-Wandering Points for Continuous Maps of the Circle at Wesleyan University in 1982, where she was advised by Ethan Coven.[1] She was appointed to a professorship at Fairfield University in 1985.[2]

President of the American Association of University Professors

In July 2020, Mulvey was elected president of the American Association of University Professors, succeeding Rudy Fichtenbaum.[3] Later in an exclusive interview made by Vox, she claimed that state bills targeted at Diversity, equity and inclusion programs damage not only high education but also democracy.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Irene Mulvey at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ↑ "Fairfield Professor Irene Mulvey, PhD, Elected AAUP President". Fairfield University. August 2020. Retrieved October 12, 2020.
  3. ↑ Flaherty, Colleen (July 22, 2020). "AAUP Announces Election Results". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved October 12, 2020.
  4. ↑ Cineas, Fabiola (Jun 17, 2023). "The right-wing assault on higher education". Vox. Retrieved Jun 19, 2023.
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