The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)

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Welcome to the Association for Women in Mathematics! The purpose of the Association for Women in Mathematics is to encourage women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences, and to promote equal opportunity and the equal treatment of women and girls in the mathematical sciences. Have fun investigating our web pages! - Georgia Benkart, President of the AWM

Announcements...

Sharon Begley, Newsweek science columnist, has been named the recipient of the 2009 Excellence in Statistical Reporting Award (ESRA) of the American Statistical Association (ASA). The award was announced today by ASA and will be presented to Begley at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Washington DC August 4th. Go here for more information.

International Congress of Women Mathematicians will be held prior to the ICM in Hyderabad in 2010. Please see additional information here.

The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) are pleased to announce that Kate Okikiolu will deliver the Falconer Lecture at MathFest 2009. Okikilou, a professor of mathematics at the University of California, San Diego, was selected for this honor because of her contributions to mathematics and mathematics education. Press Release

Women Count: A Conference for Directors of Mathematics Outreach Programs for Young Women The Women Count Conference is organized every other year in conjunction with MathFest (see http://www.maa.org/mathfest for information about MathFest), and will next be held in Portland, Oregon, on August 5, 2009. The online application form is now available (www.maa.org/wam/conference.html). If you have any problems reaching this application form or have any questions please email Betsy Yanik (eyanik@emporia.edu) .

Closing the Gender Gap in Mathematics. An analysis of contemporary data has provided new evidence discrediting the notion that females are innately less capable than males at doing mathematics, especially at the highest level. Researchers Janet E. Mertz and Janet S. Hyde of the University of Wisconsin-Madison report that girls in the United States can match boys in mathematical performance and ability. Moreover, U.S. girls have caught up to their peers abroad. Mertz and Hyde presented their findings in a perspective titled "Gender, Culture, and Mathematics," published in the June 2 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. For more information, please see the press release and the article itself. Press Release - Article

Accurate Learning Systems Corporation today announced its "Math Stimulus Plan" providing unlimited access to MathScore.com, the premier online adaptive math practice system, to any summer school program for free. Summer school classes participating in "Math Stimulus Plan" program can provide access on campus, plus allow students to access the system from home or anywhere with an internet connection. Schools interested in participating in the "Math Stimulus Plan" program must sign up by July 1, 2009 at http://www.mathstimulusplan.com/.

Summer Mathematics Academy - The Texas Tech University Summer Mathematics Academy is a two-week summer research academy in mathematics and its applications for high-school students and their teachers. The residential camp at TTU is open to high school women from anywhere in the nation. The program will encourage learning by discovery and experience with real-life mathematics applications providing close interaction with mathematicians, especially women mathematicians. The academy will run from June 8 to June 18. The camp is free to all participants. Opportunities also exist to earn $250 upon completion of a science/engineering project!

Deadline: Review of applications began May 20, 2009 and will continue until all positions are filled.

For more information about the academy, the online application form, and contact information, please visit the Academy web page: www.webpages.ttu.edu/jedwyer/ttu-sma.html.

2009 Janet L. Norwood Award Call for Nominations For Outstanding Achievement By A Woman In The Statistical Sciences

The Section on Statistical Genetics and the Department of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) are pleased to request nominations for the Eighth Annual Janet L. Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Statistical Sciences. The award recipient will be invited to deliver a lecture at the UAB award ceremony, and will receive all expenses paid to deliver this lecture, a plaque, and a $5,000 prize. Deadline for receipt of nominations is Mon 6/29/2009. For additional details about the award, please feel invited to visit our website at www.soph.uab.edu/ssg/norwoodaward/aboutaward .

The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) are pleased to announce that Andrea Bertozzi will deliver the Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture at the 2009 SIAM Annual Meeting. Bertozzi is Professor of Mathematics and Director of Applied Mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles, The Kovalevsky Lecture recognizes her work in a wide range of areas in applied mathematics. Press Release

Barbara Faires Elected to Serve as MAA Secretary The MAA Board of Governors has elected Dr. Barbara T. Faires of Westminster College as Secretary-Elect of the Association. Dr. Faires will serve as Secretary-Elect from April 1, 2009, until the conclusion of the Joint Mathematics Meetings in January 2010. At that time, she will begin a five-year term as MAA Secretary (January 2010- January 2015).
More information at: http://www.maa.org/news/040109faires.html

New book surveys early women PhD�s in math - More than 14 percent of the PhD's awarded in the United States during the first four decades of the twentieth century went to women, a proportion not achieved again until the 1980s. Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's is the result of a study in which the authors identified all of the American women who earned PhD's in mathematics before 1940.

Extended biographies and bibliographical information are available from the companion website for the book: www.ams.org/bookpages/hmath-34.

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