Ellen Eischen

Advisory Board Member

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Ellen Eischen is a professor of mathematics at the University of Oregon.  She enjoys connecting with people and communicating about mathematics, for example by employing skills from her training in improvisational theater.  Creativity Counts, an installation she organized at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art to share a creative side of mathematics with the public, became the JSMA's most visited virtually accessible exhibit.  Her research interests include number theory and the history of mathematics.  In recognition of her contributions, she was named a Fellow of both the American Mathematical Society and the Association for Women in Mathematics, and she has been awarded a von Neumann Fellowship, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, and several other NSF grants.