Dr. Mandi A. Schaeffer Fry

MSU Denver is a mission-driven, primarily undergraduate, commuter institution in downtown Denver. I began there in August 2014 as Assistant Professor, and was granted early tenure and promoted to Associate Professor in May 2018, and was promoted to Full Professor in May 2022.  In Fall 2023, I made the move to University of Denver. While I miss my students and colleagues at MSU Denver, I am loving DU and am excited to be part of a research-active department! Although I am leaving for a more research-driven culture (and to have graduate students!), I will always be extremely proud to have worked at MSU Denver, and would not trade my past experiences with their diverse, interesting, nontraditional student body for anything!

Before MSU Denver, I spent a year at Michigan State University as a Visiting Assistant Professor (Postdoc) in the Department of Mathematics, working with Professor Jon Hall.  Before that, I did my B.S. (2009) and Ph.D. (2013) in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Arizona.  My Ph.D. thesis was supervised by Professor Pham Huu Tiep, who is now at Rutgers University, and I defended my dissertation on April 3, 2013.  I also did an honors thesis during my B.S., which was supervised by Professor Klaus Lux at UA. (For more specifics about my research, see my research page!)