Bozenna Pasik-Duncan

Pasik-Duncan attended high school in Radom.^[3] She earned a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Warsaw in 1970.^[1] She completed a Ph.D. at the Warsaw School of Economics in 1978, and earned a habilitation there in 1986.^[1][4]

She moved to the University of Kansas mathematics department in 1984,^[1] joining there her husband Tyrone Duncan (also a University of Kansas mathematician).^[2]

She was a recipient of the IEEE's Third Millennium Medal in 2000, and became a Fellow of the IEEE in 2001.^[1][5] She was the 2004 AWM/MAA Falconer Lecturer,^[6] and the 2004 winner of the Louise Hay Award for Contributions to Mathematics Education of the Association for Women in Mathematics.^[5] She was named a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control in 2014.^[7] Pasik-Duncan was selected as a Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics in the Class of 2021 "for her decades of contributions: as a founder and sustainer of the Women in Control Committee of the IEEE Control Systems Society; as the chair of IFAC’s Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion; and via other programs and activities to support and encourage women and girls in mathematics and engineering".^[8]