Jean Springer

Jean Springer (born 12 September 1939 achieving "Student of the Year" Her dissertation, supervised by W. Keith Nicholson, was Commutativity and Characterisation of certain Rings with Solvable, Hamiltonian or Abelian Groups of Units.

Springer was a lecturer at the University of Calgary and the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology before eventually settling in the Department of Mathematics, Physics and Engineering at Mount Royal University. She served for periods as head of department and dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology, and was also chair of the Alberta Women's Science Network. She retired as a professor emeritus.