Barbara Trader Faires (born 1943) is an American mathematician who served as professor, department chair, and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Westminster CollegeinPennsylvania and served for 8 years as Secretary[1] of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA).[2] She received the Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Award for Distinguished Service to Mathematics from the MAA in 2022.[3] She is now retired and living in Pulaski Township, Pennsylvania.
Faires earned her undergraduate degree at East Carolina University, double-majoring in mathematics and business.[2] She earned her doctorate at Kent State University in 1974; her dissertation title was "On Grothendieck Spaces and Vector Measures" and completed under the supervision of Joseph Diestel.[4] Faires extended her studies into computer science during a sabbatical leave at Carnegie Mellon University where she also had a visiting position. Another visiting position took her to Westminster CollegeinOxford, UK.[2]
She was married to mathematician J. Douglas Faires (1941-2012)[5] who taught at nearby Youngstown UniversityinYoungstown, Ohio. Together they authored several calculus textbooks.[citation needed]
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