Tenner has been a faculty member at DePaul since 2007 and has had a lasting impact on the Department of Mathematical Sciences in the College of Science and Health. She specializes in combinatorics and specifically permutations, or orderings of a set of objects that model mathematical scenarios. Tenner's research has applications beyond mathematics, including to fields like computer science and computational biology. She has collaborated with students and faculty at DePaul and at universities across the United States and the world.
Tenner’s invitation to become an AMS Fellow is in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics. You can learn more about Tenner’s work here.