Mary K. Carroll Mahony (born 1964) is an American chemist.
Carroll was born in Massachusetts in 1964, and raised in upstate New York.[1] She earned a bachelor's degree from Union College in 1986,[1][2] followed by a doctorate at Indiana University Bloomington in 1991 before conducting postdoctoral research at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[1][3] She returned to Union College in 1992 as a faculty member, receiving successive promotions from assistant to associate and full professor in 1998 and 2005.[1] Carroll became Union's Dwane W. Crichton Professor of Chemistry in 2017.[1][2] In returning to Union College, Carroll was the first Union alumna to be hired as a tenure-track professor by her alma mater.[4]
Carroll joined the American Chemical Society (ACS) as a member in 1986,[3] began serving as councilor of the Eastern New York ACS section in 1998,[5] and was elected an ACS fellow in 2016,[6] before serving as ACS president-elect and president in 2023 and 2024, respectively.[7][8]
Carroll's husband Michael Mahony and two daughters have also graduated from Union College.[5]