Quinn's ascension to distinguished teaching status is no small feat. Luxemburg helped make the selection. Quinn will represent MAA's Southern California section, which includes 1,500 members from San Luis Obispo to San Diego. Her Oxy colleagues nominated her for the distinction, and she will now be considered for the association's national awards. Three instructors will be honored with that recognition in August.
Occidental is a very special place.
The math department has given me the opportunity to figure out what good teaching is. The MAA is the largest professional society of college and university math teachers in the world. Its mission is to advance the mathematical sciences, especially at the collegiate level. Quinn received her doctoral degree in 1993 from the University of Wisconsin Madison, where she worked on cycle packings and colorings in graphs and digraphs. She is married to Mark Martin, an assistant professor of biology at Oxy.