Background
Schafer, Alice Turner was born on June 18, 1915 in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Daughter of John H. and Cleon (Dermott) Turner.
Schafer, Alice Turner was born on June 18, 1915 in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Daughter of John H. and Cleon (Dermott) Turner.
Bachelor of Arts Richmond, 1936. Doctor of Science, University Richmond, 1964. Master of Science, U.
Chicago, 1940; Doctor of Philosophy (fellow), U. Chicago, 1942.
Teacher Glen Allen (Virginia) High School, 1936-1939. Instructor mathematics Connecticut College, New London, 1942-1944, assistant professor, 1954-1957, associate professor, 1957-1961, professor, 1961-1962. Professor mathematics Wellesley College, 1962-1980, Helen Day Gould professor mathematics, 1969-1980, Helen Day Gould professor mathematics emerita, 1980—2009, affirmative action officer, 1980-1982.
Professor mathematics Marymount University, Arlington, Virginia, 1989-1996. Instructor University Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1945-1946. Lecturer Douglass College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1946-1948.
Assistant professor Swarthmore (Pennsylvania) College, 1948-1951, Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia, 1951-1953. Mathematician Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Silver Spring, Maryland, 1945. Lecturer Simmons College, Boston, 1980-1988, Radcliffe College Seminars, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1980-1985.
United States chair postsecondary mathematics education United States/China Joint Conference on Education, 1992, co-chair Citizen Ambassador program People to People United States and China Joint Conference on Women's Issues, 1995, session women in science and mathematics.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (mathematics section A nominating committee 1979-1983, member-at-large 1983-1986, chair-elect section A 1991, chair 1992, retiring chair 1993, Association for Women in Mathematics representative, since 1993), American Association of University Professors (chairman national committee W 1980-1983, member of national county 1984-1987), American Mathematics Society (chairman postdoctoral fellowship committee 1973-1976, affirmative action procedures committee 1980-1982, chair commission on Human Rights of Mathematicians 1988-1994, Yueh-Gin Gung and Charles Y. Hu award 1998), Society Industrial and Applied Mathematics, American Statistical Association, Institute Mathematics Statistics, National Council Teachers of Mathematics (chair commission on women1976-1981), Math Association American (advising committee for Women and Mathematics program 1987-1989, director fund raising 1989-1992, lecturer since 1982, chair development committee 1988-1992, distinguished service to mathematics award 1998), International Congress Mathematicians (member fund raising committee 1986), Association for Women in Mathematics (president 1973-1975, Alice T. Schafer Prize established 1989, chair fund raising committee 1992-1994, leader mathematics delegate women mathematicians to China 1990, United States chair postsecondary mathematics education, United States/China Joint Conference on Education 1992, co-chair Citizen Amb. program People to People United States and China Joint Conference on Women's Issues 1995, session women in science and mathematics, Distinguished Svc. award 1996), Emily's List (member majority county), Cosmos Club, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Sigma Delta Epsilon.
Married Richard Donald Schafer, September 8, 1942. Children: John Dickerson, Richard Stone.