Jenna P. Carpenter is the Founding Dean and Professor of Engineering at Campbell University.
[1] She was on the faculty at Louisiana Tech University for twenty-six years, where she was most recently the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and Wayne and Juanita Spinks Professor of Mathematics in the College of Engineering and Science.
and Ph.D. in Mathematics at Louisiana State University, where she held an LSU Alumni Federation Fellowship.
[4] She regularly speaks around the country about her research, and one of her most well known speeches is her TEDx talk (“Engineering: Where are the girls and why aren’t they here?”).
[2] In October 2023 Carpenter was elected president of the Mathematical Association of America, effective July 2024.