Lenhart grew up in
Louisville, Kentucky, and was educated in the Catholic school system there. She did her undergraduate studies at
Bellarmine College in Louisville, where
Ralph Grimaldi encouraged her to prepare for graduate studies in mathematics and gave her additional tutoring in
number theory. She entered graduate school at the
University of Kentucky not knowing what she would specialize in, but in her second year chose partial differential equations.[4] She completed her doctorate in 1981 under the supervision of
Lawrence C. Evans,[5] and immediately took a tenure-track faculty position at the University of Tennessee. She added a second part-time position at Oak Ridge in 1987.[4]
Lenhart, Suzanne; Workman, John T. (2007), Optimal Control Applied to Biological Models, Chapman & Hall/CRC Mathematical and Computational Biology Series, Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL,
ISBN978-1-58488-640-2.[13]
Bodine, Erin N.; Lenhart, Suzanne; Gross, Louis J. (2014), Mathematics for the Life Sciences, Princeton University Press,
ISBN9781400852772[14]
Research papers
Lenhart, Suzanne M.; Travis, Curtis C. (1986), "Global stability of a biological model with time delay", Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 96 (1): 75–78,
doi:10.2307/2045656,
JSTOR2045656,
MR0813814.
Fister, K. Renee; Lenhart, Suzanne; McNally, Joseph Scott (1998), "Optimizing chemotherapy in an HIV model", Electronic Journal of Differential Equations: No. 32, 12,
MR1657195.
Jung, E.; Lenhart, S.; Feng, Z. (2002), "Optimal control of treatments in a two-strain tuberculosis model", Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, 2 (4): 473–482,
doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2002.2.473,
MR1921233.