Exeter's mathematics instructor Gwynneth Coogan has been named the first Smith Family Instructor in Mathematics. Coogan, who began teaching at PEA in 2002, will serve in this position for a number of multi-year terms. The instructorship includes a professional development award, and is one of three endowments established in 2006 by Rick Smith ’66. The instructorship was established to support “an exceptional early-career instructor in mathematics who has demonstrated particular promise in scholarship, student guidance and involvement in the life of the Academy.”

After graduating from Exeter in 1983, Coogan earned her bachelor’s in mathematics from Smith College, and her doctorate from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and returned to teach mathematics at PEA in 2002. In the summer of 2004, Coogan traveled to China with the PEA math team as they competed in the China Girls Math Olympiad. Later, she began teaching in the Exeter Math Institute and has done so every summer since.

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Phillips Exeter Academy is a coeducational, independent preparatory school that was founded in 1781 and originated the system of instruction known as Harkness teaching in 1931. In the spirit of its charter to foster both goodness and knowledge, students come from a wide variety of geographic, economic, racial and religious backgrounds. The diverse student body comes from approximately 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and 26 foreign countries.  

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