Kay Somers is currently professor of mathematics and chair of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Moravian College. She received her B.S. degree from Ursinus College and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her mathematical interests involve Operations Research and other areas of applied mathematics.

She is especially interested in statistics and quantitative reasoning education. Before coming to teach at Moravian, she worked in industry as an operations research analyst and in state government as a statistical analyst. She has taught a wide variety of mathematics courses at the college level and received the Lindback Foundation Award for Excellence in Teaching at Moravian College in 1990.

She is a co-author of two textbooks: A Companion to Calculus (first edition 1995, second edition 2006) and Quantitative Reasoning: Tools for Today’s Informed Citizen (2007). She served as Chair of the Department of Mathematics at Moravian from 1992-1998. From 1998 to 2004 she was Director of General Education and chair of the College committee responsible for implementing the new general education curriculum and she is currently chair of Moravian’s Committee for the Advancement of Teaching. She served as an officer of the Eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware Section of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) from 1989 to 1999, including terms as President and Secretary-Treasurer; she also served as Governor from 2001 to 2004. She currently is a member of the national MAA Classroom Resource Materials Editorial Board and serves on the Committee on Undergraduate Student Activities and Chapters. She was awarded the MAA’s Meritorious Service Award in 2006.