Carrie Diaz Eaton

Diaz Eaton received a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics with honors and a minor in zoology in 2002 from the University of Maine, Orono. In 2004, she earned a Master of Arts in mathematics with concentration in interdisciplinary mathematics from the same institution.{{Cite web|title=Latinxs and Hispanics in the Mathematical Sciences – Carrie Diaz Eaton|url=http://lathisms.org/tuesday-september-20th-2017.html|date=2017-09-20|website=Lathisms|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200322100814/http://lathisms.org/tuesday-september-20th-2017.html|archive-date=2020-03-22|access-date=2020-05-29}}{{Cite web|title=Carrie Diaz Eaton|url=https://www.womendomath.org/carrie-diaz-eaton/|website=Women Do Math|access-date=2020-05-29}}{{Cite web|title=SUMMIT-P|url=https://sites.google.com/summit-p.com/home/institutions/unity-college|website=Summit-P at Unity College|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-29}} She received her Ph.D. in mathematics with a concentration in mathematical ecology and evolutionary theory at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2013, with advisor Sergey Gavrilets.

While working towards her Ph.D. and shortly thereafter, Diaz Eaton held several positions at the University of Tennessee, and at Eastern Maine Community College, the College of the Atlantic, and Unity College in Maine.{{Cite web|title=VITAL Faculty: A Growing Workforce in Colleges and Universities|url=https://www.mathvalues.org/masterblog/vital-faculty|last=Levy|first=Rachel|date=2019-01-14|website=MAA MathValues|language=en-US|access-date=2020-06-01}}{{Cite web|title=I was VITAL faculty|url=https://www.mathvalues.org/masterblog/i-was-vital-faculty|last=Diaz Eaton|first=Carrie|date=2020-01-06|website=MAA MathValues|language=en-US|access-date=2020-06-01}}

Diaz Eaton has been an associate professor of digital and computational studies at Bates College in Lewiston, MA since 2018. She is the director of Partnerships and Communications and one of the co-founders of National Science Foundation-funded QUBES,{{Cite web|title=QUBES – About Us – Team|url=https://qubeshub.org/about/#team|access-date=2020-06-01|website=qubeshub.org}}{{Cite web|title=NSF Award Search: Award#1446258 – Collaborative Research: BIO IUSE Ideas Lab: Supporting Faculty in Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis (QUBES)|url=https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1446258|website=www.nsf.gov|access-date=2020-06-01}}{{Cite web|title=Cracking the (bio)code: Profile of Prof. Carrie Diaz Eaton|url=https://crackingthebiocode.github.io/profiles/eaton-profile.html|website=Cracking the (bio)code|access-date=2020-06-01}} a community of mathematics and biology educators aimed at teaching students how to use quantitative tools to tackle real, complex, biological problems.{{Cite web|title=QUBES – About Us|url=https://qubeshub.org/about/|access-date=2020-06-02|website=qubeshub.org}} She is the current chair of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Committee on Minority Participation in Mathematics and ex officio member of the Council on the Profession.{{Cite web|title=Council and Committees List {{!}} Mathematical Association of America|url=https://www.maa.org/about-maa/governance/council-and-committees-list?cid=00302898|website=www.maa.org|access-date=2020-06-01}}{{Cite web|title=QUBES – Members: View: Carrie Diaz Eaton|url=https://qubeshub.org/community/members/1024|website=qubeshub.org|access-date=2020-06-01}} For the year 2019-2020 she is the Past Chair of the Education Subgroup of the Society for Mathematical Biology.{{Cite web|title=Group: Society for Mathematical Biology|url=https://qubeshub.org/community/groups/smb|website=qubeshub.org|access-date=2020-06-01}}

Diaz Eaton is also the project director for Math Mamas, a digital narrative project which lead to a special issue of the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics in 2018 (of which she was one of the editors).{{Cite journal|last1=Harris|first1=Pamela|last2=Hall|first2=Becky|last3=Lawrence|first3=Emille|last4=Diaz Eaton|first4=Carrie|date=July 2018|title=Math Mamas: Changing the Narrative|url=http://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/vol8/iss2/3/|journal=Journal of Humanistic Mathematics|volume=8|issue=2|pages=2–4|doi=10.5642/jhummath.201802.03|s2cid=188376353 |doi-access=free}}{{cite web |last1=Crowell |first1=Rachel J. |title=Babies, math class and parents with STEM careers |url=https://blogs.ams.org/blogonmathblogs/2019/03/04/babies-math-class-and-parents-with-stem-careers/ |website=Blog on Math Blogs |date=5 March 2019 |publisher=American Mathematical Society |access-date=29 June 2020}} She is also the project director for SCORE, a network which promotes an open and inclusive biology education.{{Cite web|title=Bates College Website|url=https://inquire.catapult.bates.edu/|website=Bates College Website|access-date=2020-06-27}} Her undergraduate course “Calling Bull with R,” teaches students to identify and call out misinformation{{Cite news|last=Guarino|first=Ben|date=2019-06-24|title=Misinformation is everywhere. These scientists can teach you to fight BS.|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/06/24/misinformation-is-everywhere-these-scientists-can-teach-you-fight-bs/|access-date=2020-06-29|newspaper=Washington Post|language=en}} and has been chosen as one of the 2020 Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities (SENCER) Model Course.{{citation|last=Eaton|first=Carrie Diaz|title=Calling Bull in an Age of Big Data with R|year=2019|doi=10.25334/Q4CF3C|work=QUBES Educational Resources|publisher=BioQUEST|mode=cs1}}

Diaz Eaton was formerly associate professor of Mathematics in the Center for Biodiversity at Unity College. There she worked on network perspectives of coevolution and consequences for sustainability. Since then, she has developed a research program in undergraduate interdisciplinary mathematics education, with an emphasis on networks, and is the QUBES Director of Partnerships (Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis). Diaz Eaton is also the project director for Math Mamas, a digital narrative project and SCORE, a network which promotes an open and inclusive biology education.

After Abigail Thompson published op-eds concerning diversity statements in The Wall Street Journal and the Notices of the American Mathematical Society in 2019,{{Cite news|last=Thompson|first=Abigail|date=2019-12-19|title=Opinion: The University's New Loyalty Oath|language=en-US|work=Wall Street Journal|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-universitys-new-loyalty-oath-11576799749|access-date=2020-06-29|issn=0099-9660}}{{Cite journal|last=Thompson|first=Abigail|date=December 2019|title=A word from... Abigail Thompson|url=https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/201911/rnoti-p1778.pdf|journal=Notices of the American Mathematical Society|volume=66|issue=11|pages=1778–1779}} Diaz Eaton participated in the widespread responses.

Thompson argued that high achievement in fostering diversity should not be a strict requirement for all newly-hired mathematics professors, as appeared to be happening at some universities; Diaz Eaton was a coauthor and signatory to a response arguing that Thompson's letter should have been barred from publication and telling students that their diversity is valued, one of many published response letters.{{Cite journal|date=January 2020|title=Letters to the Editor - The math community values a commitment to diversity|url=https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202001/rnoti-o1.pdf|journal=Notices of the American Mathematical Society|volume=1|pages=2–9}} She was interviewed for an article on the controversy,{{Cite web|title='Diversity statements' divide mathematicians|url=https://www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagazine/17_january_2020/MobilePagedArticle.action?articleId=1554019|access-date=2020-06-29|website=www.sciencemagazinedigital.org|language=en}} and published an analysis of the demographics of signatories of the response letters.{{Cite journal|last1=Topaz|first1=Chad M.|last2=Cart|first2=James|last3=Diaz Eaton|first3=Carrie|last4=Hanson Shrout|first4=Anelise|last5=Higdon|first5=Jude A.|last6=İnce|first6=Kenan|last7=Katz|first7=Brian|last8=Lewis|first8=Drew|last9=Libertini|first9=Jessica|last10=Smith|first10=Christian Michael|date=2020-04-28|editor-last=Danforth|editor-first=Christopher M.|title=Comparing demographics of signatories to public letters on diversity in the mathematical sciences|journal=PLOS ONE|language=en|volume=15|issue=4|pages=e0232075|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0232075|issn=1932-6203|pmc=7188238|pmid=32343722|arxiv=1912.13334|bibcode=2020PLoSO..1532075T|doi-access=free}}

Diaz Eaton has received numerous large grants to fund her work on equity and sustainability in mathematical biology education, including:

• Lead PI in Hewlett Foundation grant for proposal titled “Bates College/QUBES/SCORE: Supporting a more equitable and sustainable open education in undergraduate biology,” US $380,210, April 2020 - March 2021.{{Cite web|last=Pershell|first=Karoline|title=Grant from the Hewlett Foundation to Expand Inclusion and Diversity Focus for Open Educational Resources in Undergraduate Quantitative Biology|url=https://qubeshub.org/news/blog/2020/04/grant-from-the-hewlett-foundation-to-expand-inclusion-and-diversity-focus-for-open-educational|access-date=2020-06-29|website=qubeshub.org|language=en-gb}}
• Co-PI for NSF grant titled “IUSE Collaborative Grant: QUBES: Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis,” over US $1.1 million, September 2014 - August 2021.{{Cite web|title=NSF Award Search: Award#1446258 - Collaborative Research: BIO IUSE Ideas Lab: Supporting Faculty in Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis (QUBES)|url=https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1446258|access-date=2020-06-29|website=www.nsf.gov}}
• Co-PI for NSF grant titled “RCN-UBE Incubator Network: Open and Accessible Biology Education: The promise of equity and the challenge of sustainability,” US $74,290, August 2019 - August 2021.{{Cite web|title=NSF Award Search: Award#1346584 - RCN-UBE Incubator: An online networking hub for collaboration, discovery, and synthesis in quantitative biology curricula|url=https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1346584|access-date=2020-06-29|website=www.nsf.gov}}
• NSF INCLUDES Conference grant titled “Bringing Conversations on Diversity and Inclusion in Data Science to the Ecological and Environmental Sciences,” US $232,110, July 2018 - June 2021.{{Cite web|title=NSF Award Search: Award#1812997 - DCL NSF INCLUDES: Bringing Conversations on Diversity and Inclusion in Data Science to the Ecological and Environmental Sciences|url=https://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1812997|access-date=2020-06-29|website=nsf.gov}}

• Winner of the 2020 John Jungck Prize for Excellence in Education of the Society for Mathematical Biology.{{Cite web|title=John Jungck Prize for Excellence in Education|url=https://www.smb.org/john-jungck-prize/|language=en-US|access-date=2020-06-01}}
• Diaz Eaton has been chosen in 2019 as an MAA Leader and is part of MAA Math Values.{{Cite web|title=Welcome to Math Values from the Mathematical Association of America|url=https://www.mathvalues.org/masterblog/2018/11/5/letter-from-our-executive-director|access-date=2020-06-29|website=MATH VALUES|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|title=BLOGGERS|url=https://www.mathvalues.org/bloggers|access-date=2020-06-29|website=MATH VALUES|language=en-US}}
• 2018 Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) Linton-Poodry Leadership Institute.{{Cite web|title=LPSLI Cohorts – SACNAS|url=https://www.sacnas.org/lpsli-cohort/|language=en-US|access-date=2020-06-01}}{{Cite web|title=Carrie Diaz Eaton|url=https://www.mathvalues.org/diazeaton|website=MAA MathValues|language=en-US|access-date=2020-06-01}}
• MAA Project NExT Fellow in 2012/2013 (silver dot).{{Cite web|title=Fellow Search Form {{!}} Mathematical Association of America|url=https://www.maa.org/programs-and-communities/professional-development/project-next/fellows/fellow-search-form|website=www.maa.org|access-date=2020-06-01}}
• Mark A. Musik Doctoral Scholars Fellow from the Southern Regional Education Board between 2005 and 2008 while she was a graduate student at the University of Tennessee.
• Diaz Eaton was part of the Massachusetts A Team which placed first in the American Regions Mathematics League International Competition in 1998.{{Cite web|date=2004-12-10|title=ARML Standings 1998|url=http://www.arml.com/Dotorg/Standings/standings98.html|access-date=2020-06-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041210062524/http://www.arml.com/Dotorg/Standings/standings98.html|archive-date=2004-12-10}}{{Cite web|title=On Marty Badoian and Being a Canton Mathlete|url=https://www.mathvalues.org/masterblog/marty-badoian|access-date=2020-06-29|website=MATH VALUES|language=en-US}}

Diaz Eaton was part of the editorial board of Letters in Biomathematics between 2013 and 2017. She has been part of the PRIMUS: Problems, Resources, and Issues in Mathematics Undergraduate Studies editorial board since 2017.{{Cite web|title=PRIMUS Editorial Board|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=upri20&|website=www.tandfonline.com|access-date=2020-06-01}} Since 2019, Diaz Eaton has been one of the Course Editors for CourseSource.{{Cite web|title=CourseSource {{!}} Evidence-based teaching resources for undergraduate biology education|url=https://www.coursesource.org/people|access-date=2020-06-29|website=www.coursesource.org}}

Diaz Eaton identifies as a first generation Latinx mathematician; her father is from Peru{{Cite web|title=Curriculum Vitae – Carrie Diaz Eaton|url=https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTXgpxbs547dvZskDb68J1PDV2xL6DeY1BmBk8m_jZBsY8pwCaNwSElk_eKSmw5B--8LEuuyTxi0uFM/pub|website=CV|access-date=2020-06-27}}{{Cite web|title=Personal Website|url=https://inquire.catapult.bates.edu/|website=Personal Website|access-date=2020-06-27}} and she has a White American mother. She has two children, both born while she was a graduate student at the University of Tennessee.

• [https://inquire.catapult.bates.edu/ Carrie Diaz Eaton's INQUIRE Lab website]
• {{google scholar id|GH8ZpNoAAAAJ}}
• [https://qubeshub.org/ QUBES website]
• [https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/06/24/misinformation-is-everywhere-these-scientists-can-teach-you-fight-bs/ Carrie Diaz Eaton quoted in Misinformation is everywhere. These scientists can teach you to fight BS.]
• [https://www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagazine/17_january_2020/MobilePagedArticle.action?articleId=1554019#articleId1554019/ Carrie Diaz Eaton quoted in ‘Diversity statements’ divide mathematicians]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PERV3kZNGFQ&t=1s Video interview] at Meet a Mathematician!

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