Education
He received his Doctor of Philosophy from Brandeis University in 1975 under the direction of Edgar Henry Brown, Junior. and Harold I. Levine.
He received his Doctor of Philosophy from Brandeis University in 1975 under the direction of Edgar Henry Brown, Junior. and Harold I. Levine.
He is a Professor of Mathematics at Northeastern University. He did his undergraduate studies at Boston College. In 1975 he became an American Mathematical Society Centennial Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a year later he joined the Brown university faculty as Tamarkind instructor.
In 1979 Gaffney became professor at Northeastern University where has remained ever since.
He has served as department chair, graduate director, chair of the undergraduate curriculum committee, and faculty senator; du Plesis, Associate of Arts