Professor Carolyn Gordon of Dartmouth College was one of seven School of Science alumni who returned to the Purdue campus on April 21-22, 1994 to receive Distinguished Alumni Awards. The awards were established in 1990 to recognize outstanding achievement in professional and related fields of endeavor.
Professor Gordon earned B.S. and M.S. degrees from Purdue in 1971 and 1972, and a Ph.D. from Washington University in 1979. She spent the following year as a Lady Davis Postdoctoral Fellow at the Israel Institute of Technology. In 1990, she received an American Mathematical Society Centennial Research Fellowship.
Professor Gordon is author or co-author of numerous refereed journal articles and has given colloquia and seminar talks throughout the United States on spectral geometry, differential geometry, theory of Lie groups and applications, and eigenvalue problems. She is a member of the editorial board of the Nova Journal of Algebra and Geometry, and has been a co-organizer of several conferences and workshops on geometry. In 1992-93 Professor Gordon served on the advisory committee to the Division of Mathematical Sciences of the National Science Foundation.