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Indian American mathematician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aparna W. Higgins is a mathematician known for her encouragement of undergraduate mathematicians to participate in mathematical research.[1] Higgins originally specialized in universal algebra, but her more recent research concerns graph theory, including graph pebbling and line graphs.[2] She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Dayton.[3]
Higgins is originally from Mumbai, India, and did her undergraduate studies at the University of Mumbai, graduating in 1978.[2] She completed her Ph.D. in 1983 at the University of Notre Dame; her dissertation, Heterogeneous Algebras Associated with Non-Indexed Algebras, a Representation Theorem on Weak Automorphisms of Universal Algebras, was supervised by Abraham Goetz.[4]
In 2009 she became director of Project NExT, after the previous director, T. Christine Stevens, stepped down; this project is an initiative of the Mathematical Association of America to provide career guidance to new doctorates in mathematics.[5]
Higgins is married to Bill Higgins, a mathematics professor at Wittenberg University, and the two regularly take their sabbaticals together in California.[6]
Higgins won a Distinguished Teaching Award from the Mathematical Association of America in 1995, for her contributions to undergraduate research.[1] In 2005 she was one of three winners of the Deborah and Franklin Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics of the Mathematical Association of America.[7]
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