Kathleen Rose Kavanagh (also published as Kathleen R. Fowler) is an American applied mathematician whose research involves simulation-based engineering,[1] particular for problems involving air quality, water quality, and sustainable irrigation.
[2] She is a professor of mathematics at Clarkson University,[1] and a director of the New York State Education IMPETUS for Career Success providing science enrichment for middle and high school students in three counties of New York State.[3].
Kavanagh is also the associate director for the Institute for STEM Education at Clarkson University.
She completed her Ph.D. at North Carolina State University in 2003; her dissertation, Nonsmooth Nonlinearities in Applications in Hydrology, was supervised by Carl T. (Tim) Kelley.
[4] She has been a faculty member in the mathematics department of Clarkson University since 2003,[3] and was promoted to full professor in 2015.