She is currently a distinguished visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and a visiting senior research scholar at Princeton University.
Saat ini ia merupakan peneliti tamu di Institute for Advanced Study dan akademisi senior tamu di Universitas Princeton.
Uhlenbeck received her B.A. (1964) from the University of Michigan.
Uhlenbeck lulus dengan gelar B.A. (1964) dari Universitas Michigan.
She began her graduate studies at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, and married biophysicist Olke C. Uhlenbeck (the son of physicist George Uhlenbeck) in 1965.
Ia melanjutkan S2 di Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences di Universitas New York, lalu menikahi biofisikawan Olke C. Uhlenbeck (putra fisikawan George Uhlenbeck) pada tahun 1965.
Her doctoral dissertation was titled The Calculus of Variations and Global Analysis.
Disertasi doktoralnya berjudul The Calculus of Variations and Global Analysis.
After temporary jobs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of California, Berkeley, and having difficulty finding a permanent position with her husband because of the "anti-nepotism" rules then in place that prevented hiring both a husband and wife even in distinct departments of a university, she took a faculty position at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1971.
Setelah bekerja sementara di Institut Teknologi Massachusetts dan Universitas California, Berkeley, dan dilarang bekerja permanen mendampingi suaminya akibat aturan "anti-nepotisme" (mencegah suami-istri bekerja di universitas yang sama), ia mengajar di Universitas Illinois, Urbana–Champaign, pada tahun 1971.
However, she disliked Urbana and moved to the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1976 as well as separating from her first husband Olke Uhlenbeck in the same year.
Ia tidak suka dengan suasana Urbana, kemudian pindah ke Universitas Illinois, Chicago, tahun 1976.
Uhlenbeck is currently a professor emerita at the University of Texas at Austin, a visiting associate at the Institute for Advanced Study and a visiting senior research scholar at Princeton University.
Uhlenbeck saat ini menjabat sebagai guru besar emeritus di Universitas Texas, Austin, peneliti tamu di Institute for Advanced Study, dan akademisi senior tamu di Universitas Princeton.
Uhlenbeck is one of the founders of the field of geometric analysis, a discipline that uses differential geometry to study the solutions to differential equations and vice versa.
Uhlenbeck adalah salah satu perintis bidang analisis geometri, disiplin yang menerapkan geometri diferensial untuk mencari solusi persamaan diferensial dan sebaliknya.
In 1991, Uhlenbeck co-founded, with Herbert Clemens and Dan Freed, the Park City Mathematics Institute (PCMI) with the mission to "provide an immersive educational and professional development opportunity for several parallel communities from across the larger umbrella of the mathematics profession."
Pada tahun 1991, Uhlenbeck bersama Herbert Clemens dan Dan Freed mendirikan Park City Mathematics Institute (PCMI) dengan tujuan "membuka kesempatan pengembangan pendidikan dan profesional untuk beberapa komunitas sejalan dari berbagai lingkup profesi matematika."
Uhlenbeck also co-founded the Women and Mathematics Program at the Institute for Advanced Study "with the mission to recruit and retain more women in mathematics."
Uhlenbeck juga mendirikan Women and Mathematics Program di Institute for Advanced Study "dengan tujuan merekrut dan mempekerjakan lebih banyak perempuan di bidang matematika."
Hans Munthe-Kaas, who chaired the award committee, stated that "Her theories have revolutionised our understanding of minimal surfaces, such as more general minimisation problems in higher dimensions".
Hans Munthe-Kaas, ketua panitia, mengatakan bahwa "teori-teorinya telah mengubah pemahaman kita tentang permukaan minimal seperti persoalan minimisasi lebih umum di dimensi-dimensi tinggi".
Uhlenbeck also won the National Medal of Science in 2000, and the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research of the American Mathematical Society in 2007, "for her foundational contributions in analytic aspects of mathematical gauge theory", based on her 1982 papers "Removable singularities in Yang–Mills fields"[RSY] and "Connections with bounds on curvature".[CLP] She became a MacArthur Fellow in 1983 and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1985.
Uhlenbeck juga dianugerahi National Medal of Science tahun 2000 dan Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research dari American Mathematical Society tahun 2007, "atas kontribusi besarnya terhadap aspek-aspek analitis dalam teori ukuran matematika", berdasarkan makalahnya tahun 1982 yang berjudul "Removable singularities in Yang–Mills fields" dan "Connections with bounds on curvature".
She was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1986.
Ia dipilih sebagai anggota National Academy of Sciences tahun 1986.
She became a Guggenheim Fellow in 2001, an honorary member of the London Mathematical Society in 2008, and a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012.
Ia menjadi Guggenheim Fellow tahun 2001, anggota kehormatan London Mathematical Society tahun 2008, dan anggota American Mathematical Society tahun 2012.
She was the Noether Lecturer of the Association for Women in Mathematics in 1988.
Ia diangkat sebagai Noether Lecturer di Association for Women in Mathematics pada tahun 1988.
In 1990, she was a plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians, as only the second woman (after Emmy Noether) to give such a lecture.
Tahun 1990, ia menjadi pembicara utama di Kongres Matematika Internasional sekaligus perempuan kedua yang dipilih sebagai pembicara utama setelah Emmy Noether.
Her other awards include the University of Michigan alumna of the year (1984), the Sigma Xi Common Wealth Award for Science and Technology (1995), and honorary doctorates from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (2000), Ohio State University (2001), University of Michigan (2004), Harvard University (2007), and Princeton University (2012).
Uhlenbeck adalah alumni terbaik Universitas Michigan (1984), Sigma Xi Common Wealth Award for Science and Technology (1995), dan gelar doktor kehormatan dari Universitas Illinois, Urbana–Champaign (2000), Universitas Negeri Ohio (2001), Universitas Michigan (2004), Universitas Harvard (2007), dan Universitas Princeton (2012).
The University of Texas, Austin. 2000.
UT News, The University of Texas, Austin (2000).
"Interview with Abel Laureate Karen Uhlenbeck" (PDF).
"Interview with Karen Uhlenbeck".