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Past Announcements

  • The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) have selected Suzanne Lenhart to deliver the prestigious Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture at the 2010 SIAM Annual Meeting. Press Release
  • The Association for Women in Mathematics and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) recently became reciprocal membership societies. We are pleased to announce that current individual AWM members may now join SIAM as an individual member and quality for reciprocal membership rates. SIAM Reciprocal Members receive a 20-30% discount off the Regular Member dues rate and receive all the benefits of regular membership. Please visit the SIAM website at http://www.siam.org/membership/individual/reciprocal.php to take advantage of this new opportunity for current, individual AWM members.
  • Irina Mitrea, an AWM Executive Committee member, will serve a 2-year term as IMA Associate Director starting September 1, 2010. Professor Mitrea's main research areas are harmonic analysis and partial differential equations.
  • Fifth Blackwell-Tapia Prize awarded to Trachette Jackson - Congratulations to AWM Executive Committee member Trachette Jackson on winning the Blackwell-Tapia Prize. Professor Jackson co-founded and co-directs the Mathematical Biology Research Group at the University of Michigan, a campus-wide team that fosters research in mathematical biology among scientists in over fifteen departments and research centers at the university. In 2003 she was recognized by a Sloan Research Award.
  • Math Awareness Month - The theme for Mathematics Awareness Month, April 2010, is Mathematics and Sports.
  • Why So Few? - Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics presents in-depth yet accessible profiles of eight key research findings that point to environmental and social barriers – including stereotypes, gender bias and the climate of science and engineering departments in colleges and universities – that continue to block women’s participation and progress in science, technology, engineering, and math.
  • Olga Taussky Todd Lecturer announced - Beatrice Pelloni of the University of Reading, UK has been selected to present the Olga Taussky Todd Lecture at ICIAM 2011 in Vancouver. Pelloni graduated Summa cum Laude from Rome University ?La Sapienza? and received her Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale University 1996 under the direction of Professor Peter Jones. Her research interests are linear and nonlinear PDE, integrable systems, numerical solutions of PDEs, and wave propagation phenomena. Congratulations to Dr. Pelloni.
  • SIAM Fellows Announced - The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) recently conferred Fellows status on 34 noteworthy professionals, who will be recognized in July during the 2010 SIAM Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Among the 34 named are 3 women -- all AWM members, Andrea Bertozzi, Susanne Brenner, and Barbara Keyfitz. Congratulations to all on this honor.
  • Expanding Your Horizons Network Receives 2010 National Science Board Award - The Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) Network was recently named recipient of the prestigious 2010 National Science Board (NSB) Public Service Award as an organization that has made significant contributions and impact in public understanding of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The award ceremony will take place at the U.S. State Department in Washington D.C. on May 4, 2010.
  • Travel grants to 2010 KWMS Conference - The Korean Women in Mathematical Sciences (KWMS) has travel grants of up to $1000 per person to support women mathematicians from North America to participate in the 2010 KWMS International Conference which will be held June 21-22, 2010, in Daejun, Korea. Applications should include a brief vita of one page including the list of publication and abstract of talks. Please submit your application to the KWMS (kwms08@kwms.or.kr) by April 15, 2010. Announcement of grant recipients will be by e-mail before May 7.
  • The Association for Women in Mathematics Announces the Humphreys Award - The Executive Committee of the Association for Women in Mathematics has established a prize in memory of M. Gweneth Humphreys to recognize outstanding mentorship activities. This prize will be awarded annually to a mathematics teacher (female or male) who has encouraged female undergraduate students to pursue mathematical careers and/or the study of mathematics at the graduate level. The recipient will receive a cash prize and honorary plaque and will be featured in an article in the AWM newsletter. The award is open to all regardless of nationality and citizenship. Nominees must be living at the time of their nomination. Continue to the Humphreys Award page for more info.

    The deadline for the award is April 30 annually. Nominations for the first Humphreys award, which will be awarded in January 2011, are currently being accepted. Press release
  • Women of Mathematics. In celebration of Women's History Month, the MAA will be posting photographs and brief bios of notable female mathematicians from its Women of Mathematics poster: http://maa.org/news/WomenofMath.html
  • Registration now open for the Infinite Possibilities Conference
    (IPC; www.ipcmath.org) IPC is a 2-day national conference designed to support, encourage and educate underrepresented minority women in mathematics and statistics. The conference hosts professionals, high school, college and graduate students who have an interest and love of mathematics. IPC will take place March 18-20, 2010 on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles, CA. Travel support is available for students interested in attending the conference, however funds are limited and priority will be given to students who register early. The registration deadline is February 5th. For more conference information visit www.ipcmath.org/conf_details.html.
  • Mary Layne Boas - AWM is sad to report the death of long-time member, Mary Layne Boas (March 10, 1917-February 17, 2010). Dr. Boas earned bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics at the University of Washington in 1938 and 1940, and did further graduate work at Duke University. There she met her future husband, Ralph Philip Boas, Jr., a mathematics instructor; they were married June 12, 1941 in Orleans, MA. She earned a Ph.D. in physics in 1948 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For three decades, she taught physics at DePaul University in Chicago.
    In 2006, Boas published a third edition of her textbook, Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences Her son, Harold Boas, Professor of Mathematics at Texas A&M, has written an obituary notice, which appeared in the Seattle Times: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/seattletimes/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=139866372
  • New Study from National Academy of Sciences - A new study has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States by Sian L. Beilock et al., looks at female teachers’ math anxiety affects girls’ math achievement.
  • FORWARD Workshop
    A workshop, FORWARD to Professorship, will take place June 1-3, 2010 in Washington DC for women and minorities who may be considering, or are currently in, a tenure track position in science, engineering, or mathematics. This workshop is part of the FORWARD in SEM (Focus on Reaching Women for Academics, Research and Development in Science, Engineering and Mathematics) program of George Washington and Gallaudet Universities, which is funded by a National Science Foundation ADVANCE leadership award. Information concerning registration and scholarships can be found on the website: http://student.seas.gwu.edu/~forward/advance/
    Applicants are due by March 1, 2010.
  • Fields Institute Research Immersion Fellowship
    http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/proposals/research_immersion.html

    This program supports individuals with high potential to re-enter an active research career after an interruption for family responsibilities. To qualify, candidates must have been in a postdoctoral or faculty position at the time their active research career was interrupted. The duration of the career interruption should be at least one year and no more than eight years. Examples of qualifying interruptions include a complete or partial hiatus from research activities for child rearing; an incapacitating illness or injury of the candidate, spouse, partner, or a member of the immediate family; or relocation to accommodate a spouse, partner, or other close family member.
  • Few Gender Differences in Math Abilities, Worldwide Study Finds

    ScienceDaily (Jan. 6, 2010) — Girls around the world are not worse at math than boys, even though boys are more confident in their math abilities, and girls from countries where gender equity is more prevalent are more likely to perform better on mathematics assessment tests, according to a new analysis of international research.

    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100105112303.htm
  • Hard Problems, Approximate Solutions: Finding Balance between Math and Family Demands.

    Thursday, January 14, 1 – 2:30 pm
    Joint Committee on Women in the Mathematical Sciences Panel Discussion
    Room 3003, 3rd floor, Moscone

    Description: Virginia Woolf said it all in “A Room of One’s Own.” How do we find time for our own mathematical work amidst intergenerational family demands? The challenges of balancing family life (such as raising children, caring for elderly parents, providing child care for grandchildren, or supporting a partner) with a professional life are myriad.

    This panel, the first in a series of panels on this issue, will focus on two approaches to a solution: successful institutional models that allow time for family responsibilities and personal frameworks that allow time for career goals.

    Panelists presenting the larger issues of family and work within academia include Mary Ann Mason from the University of California Berkeley and co-author of the paper “Do Babies Matter? The Effect of Family formation on the Lifelong Careers of Academic Men and Women,” Carol Hollenshead, former director of the University of Michigan’s Center for the Education of Women and co-author of “Developing and Implementing Work Family Policies for Faculty”, and Joyce Yen, Program/Research Manager for the University of Washington’s ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change. Maura Mast (University of Massachusetts Boston) and Dawn Lott (Delaware State University) will provide perspectives on institutional and personal approaches to surviving the family-work crunch. Organized by Kathleen O’Hara. Sponsored by the AMS-ASA-AWM-IMS-MAA-NCTM-SIAM Joint Committee on Women in the Mathematical Sciences.
  • ****Extra Performance Added****
    TRUTH VALUES: ONE GIRL'S ROMP THROUGH M.I.T.'S MALE MATH MAZE

    Are women inferior to men in math and science as Lawrence Summers, then President of Harvard, suggested several years ago? NYC writer/performer and recovering mathematician Gioia De Cari offers a woman's perspective on this question, as she shares her experiences in higher mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the autobiographical solo show, TRUTH VALUES: ONE GIRL'S ROMP THROUGH M.I.T.'S MALE MATH MAZE, directed by Miriam Eusebio and presented by the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI).

    WHEN: Thursday January 14 and Friday January 15 at 8pm, and now
    due to popular demand, a performance Saturday January 16 at 8pm

    WHERE: Zeum Theater, 221 Fourth Street, San Francisco;
    next to the Moscone Center

    TICKETS: $35 Call Brown Paper Tickets at 800-838-3006,
    or visit http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/91887.

    A portion of the proceeds will benefit AWM.

    Discussions organized by AWM will follow immediately after the Thursday and Friday shows.
  • 2010 Noether Lecture - The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is pleased to announce that Carolyn Gordon will deliver the Noether Lecture at the 2010 Joint Mathematics Meetings. Gordon, the Benjamin Cheney Professor of Mathematics at Dartmouth College was selected for this honor because of her fundamental contributions to inverse spectral problems
  • AMS-KMS meeting in Seoul - AWM and the Korean Women in Mathematical Sciences (KWMS) will hold a joint activity at the AMS-KMS meeting in Seoul. We encourage those attending the meeting to participate in the Mentoring and Networking Hours Saturday Dec. 19, 17:00-19:00. There will be a panel, "Empowering Women Mathematicians for Excellence," featuring AWM members Ruth Charney (Brandeis University), Jane Hawkins (University of North Carolina), and Hee Oh (Brown University) along with KWMS member Haesook Lee (Ewha Womans University), followed by discussion, dinner, and networking.
  • Truth Values - Are Women Inferior to Men in Math and Science?. . . as Lawrence Summers, then President of Harvard, suggested several years ago? NYC writer/performer and recovering mathematician Gioia De Cari offers a woman’s perspective on this question, as she shares her experiences in higher mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the autobiographical solo show, TRUTH VALUES: ONE GIRL’S ROMP THROUGH M.I.T.’S MALE MATH MAZE, directed by Miriam Eusebio. WHEN: Thursday, January 14 and Friday January 15 at 8 PM WHERE: Zeum Theater, 221 Fourth Street, San Francisco; next to the Moscone Center TICKETS: $35. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Association for Women in Mathematcs. Call Brown Paper Tickets at 800-838-3006, or visit unexpectedtheatre.org. For more information and ONLINE PRESS KIT WITH PHOTOS, visit www.unexpectedtheatre.org.
  • Now accepting applications for the IAS Women and Mathematics Program "p-adic Langlands Program" to be held May 17-28, 2010. See http://www.math.ias.edu/wam/2010 for details on how to apply. - Deadline for applications is February 20.
  • Deadline for ICM2010 Travel Grants Extended to 11/25/2009
    The AMS has received funding from the National Science Foundation to provide travel support for U.S. attendees of the International Congress of Mathematicians, to be held August 19-27, 2010 in Hyderabad, India. The AMS is administering the selection process. Awardees will be notified in February, 2010. To apply, visit the AMS web page: http://www.ams.org/employment/icm2010.html
    Applications are being accepted on an electronic application system until November 25, 2009.
  • 11th International Conference of The Mathematics Education into the 21st Century Project
    The Mathematics Education into the 21st Century Project has just completed its tenth successful international conference in Dresden, Germany, following conferences in Egypt, Jordan, Poland, Australia, Sicily, Czech Republic, Malaysia and the USA. Our project was founded in 1986 and is dedicated to the planning, writing and disseminating of innovative ideas and materials in Mathematics, Statistics, Science and Computer Education. The next conference is planned for September 10 – 16, 2011 in Grahamstown, South Africa. The chairman of the Local Organising Committee is Professor Marc Schafer of Rhodes University. The conference will open with an evening welcome reception on Sunday, Sep 10th and will close with lunch on Saturday, Sep 16th. Major sponsors will include Autograph.

    The title of the conference is "Turning Dreams into Reality: Transformations and Paradigm Shifts in Mathematics Education". Paper proposals are now invited on all innovative aspects of mathematics, statistics, science and computer education. Our conferences are renowned for their friendly and productive working atmosphere. They are attended by innovative teachers and mathematics educators from all over the world, 44 countries were represented at our last conference for example. There will be an additional full social programme for accompanying persons. For ALL further conference details please email Alan Rogerson , Chairman of the International Programme Committee, at alan@rogerson.pol.pl.
  • AWM Biographies Contest - To increase awareness of women's ongoing contributions to the mathematical sciences, AWM is sponsoring an essay contest for biographies of contemporary women mathematicians and statisticians in academic, industrial, and government careers. This contest is open to middle school, high school, undergraduate, and graduate students. Be sure to get your submissions to the AWM Essay Contest submitted by the February 27th deadline!
  • Etta Falconer Award Nominations http://www.ipcmath.org/DrEtta.html
    IPAM is advertising a call for nominations for their Etta Falconer award for mentoring and commitment to diversity.
  • AWM Essay Contest: To increase awareness of women's ongoing contributions to the mathematical sciences, the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) runs an essay contest for biographies of contemporary women mathematicians and statisticians in academic, industrial, and government careers. AWM is pleased to announce that the 2010, 2011 and 2012 contests are sponsored by Math for America.
  • Organizing meetings in cooperation with AWM:
    AWM often cooperates with mathematics institutes or other associations in organizing conferences. Inquiries about organizing a conference in cooperation with AWM should be sent to awm@awm-math.org and directed to the attention of the chair of the Meetings and Program Portfolio.
  • With deep regret, AWM announces that former AWM President Alice T. Schafer died Sunday, September 27 at the age of 94. A champion of women in mathematics, Professor Schafer was one of the founders of AWM and from 1973 to 1975 served as its second president. Dr. Schafer taught at Connecticut College and for 28 years at Wellesley College, where she was Helen Day Gould Professor of Mathematics, retiring in 1980. Following her retirement, she continued to teach at Simmons College and Marymount University until she was eighty-one years old. In 1998, the Mathematical Association of America honored Alice Schafer with its Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Distinguished Service to Mathematics Award. The AWM Alice T. Schafer Prize for excellence in mathematics by an undergraduate woman was established in her honor in 1990.
    The Mathematics Department at the University of Chicago, where Schafer received her Ph.D. in 1942, has recently posted an obituary on its website http://www.math.uchicago.edu/.
  • Now accepting nominations for the 2010 Noether Lecture. See the Noether Lecture page for more information. Deadline for submission of nominations October 15, 2009.
  • Now accepting nominations for the 2010 Schafer Prize. See the Schafer Prize page for more information. Deadline for submission of nominations October 1, 2009.
  • The Association for Women in Mathematics invites applications for the fourth annual Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize. A $45,000 prize will be awarded to a woman, recently promoted to associate professor or the equivalent, for a semester of mathematical research without teaching obligations in the Mathematics Department of Cornell University. A supplemental housing/subsistence stipend award of $3,000 will be provided. Office space, library access, and computing facilities will be provided by Cornell. The application deadline is November 1 for the award to be used during the 2010-11 academic year. www.awm-math.org/michlerprize.html
  • Math Olympiad Team winners
    All seven girls on the U.S. team at the 2009 China Girls Mathematical Olympiad team will be coming home with medals. Cynthia Day – Bronze; Carolyn Kim – Silver; Jing Jing Li – Gold; Patricia Li – Silver; Ramya Rangan – Bronze; Elizabeth Synge – Silver; Joy Zheng – Gold. Congratulations to all!
  • Math Programs www.MathPrograms.org
    A new site from the AMS called Math Programs is now up and running. This site will operate like mathjobs but be a place where organizations can have people apply for various things like grants, workshops, etc. Check it out!
  • PRA.G.E.S. Bulletin n°3 - English The EU has released their News Bulletin of the Project PRA.G.E.S. - PRActising Gender Equality in Science - Coordination action SiS7-217754.
  • AWM events at MathFest 2009 MAA will hold its summer MathFest at the Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront in Portland, Oregon on August 6-8, 2009. AWM is sponsoring a panel, Family Matters, 1:00-2:20pm, Thursday August 6. The panel is co-organized by AWM President, Georgia Benkart (University of Wisconsin – Madison), AWM Executive Director, Maeve McCarthy (Murray State University) and AWM Clerk, Maura Mast (University of Massachusetts – Boston). Kate Okikiolu (University of California, San Diego) will present the AWM-MAA Falconer Lecture, The Sum of Squares of Wavelengths of a Closed Surface, 8:30-9:20am, Friday, August 6, in the Oregon Ballroom. The Falconer lecture will be preceded by the AWM-MAA Morning Coffee, 8:00-8:30am, Friday August 6, in the Oregon Ballroom.
  • Kathrin Bringmann Receives One Million Euro Krupp Prize - Kathrin Bringmann, a number theorist at the University of Minnesota and the University of Cologne, has been awarded the Alfried Krupp-Förderpreis for Young Professors. The one million Euro prize, for a five-year period, is awarded by the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation. She is the third mathematician to win the annual prize--Ursula Gather received the prize in 1987 and Albrecht Böttcher won in 1992.
  • Gender differences in science article in PNAS. www.pnas.org/content/106/26/10593.abstract In a recent article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a group reports on research assessing stereotypes in science.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Career Mentoring Workshop for women in the mathematical sciences (CaMeW) will be held July 26-28, 2009 at Wheaton College (Massachusetts). The goals of the workshop are to help inform women finishing their PhDs about different aspects of the job search and different career paths and to introduce them to peers and mentors on whom they can call over the next year (and beyond). More information at the website: http://www.wheatoncollege.edu/CaMeW/. The application deadline is May 15th.
  • Sonia Kovalevsky High School Mathematics Day at University of Texas at Tyler was featured on their local news. You can see the video clip here. For more information on having a Sonia Kovalevsky High School Mathematics Day at your school, please see http://www.awm-math.org/kovalevsky.html.
  • Update from Washington, DC - The President today signed an executive order creating a White House Council on Women and Girls. The new White House Council is similar to the White House Office for Women's Initiatives and Outreach that was created by President Clinton and subsequently closed by President Bush. Legislation to create a Presidential Commission on Women is moving forward in Congress. The White House Council and the Presidential Commission on Women are perfect companions and can work together to improve the future of women in this country. Be a part of the movement that will participate in this important initiative as it moves through Congress by signing the petition put forth by WomenCount at http://womencount.org/its_our_time.
  • The 14th General Meeting of European Women in Mathematics (EWM) will be held from August 25-28, 2009 at the Department of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Novi Sad, Serbia with the following invited speakers: Ingrid Daubechies (Princeton University, USA; 2009 EMS lecturer), Nalini Anantharaman (Centre de Mathématiques Laurent Schwartz, France), Barbara Lee Keyfitz (The Ohio State University, USA), Jelena Kovacevic (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Marta Sanz-Solé (University of Barcelona, Spain), Tatyana Suslina (St. Petersburg State University, Russia), Reidun Twarock (University of York, UK), Brigitte Vallée (CNRS, France).
  • Ingrid Daubechies, the 2009 European Mathematical Society lecturer, will deliver three of her EMS lectures at this meeting. For more details about the meeting see http://ewm2009.wordpress.com.
  • The 3rd Nordic EWM Summer School for PhD Students in Mathematics will take place inTurku, Finland from June 22-27, 2009. The summer school is open to everybody interested in mathematics. More details and information on registration, travel grants and accommodation can be found at http://www.math.utu.fi/projects/ewm.
  • The Association for Women in Mathematics and the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications are pleased to co-sponsor the workshop Career Options for Women in Mathematical Sciences http://www.awm-math.org/conferences.html#2009 which will be held at the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications in Minneapolis on April 2-4, 2009.

    Graduate students and Ph.D.s in the early stages of their post-graduate careers are encouraged to attend. For further information about poster submissions, the application for travel support, registration, travel and accommodations, please visit http://www.ima.umn.edu/2008-2009/SW4.2-4.09/
  • The Mathematics Education into the 21st Century Project & The University of Applied Sciences (FH), Dresden (Germany) announce our 10th (Anniversary!) International Conference: " Models in Developing Mathematics Education" to be held Sep 11-17, 2009 in Dresden, Saxony, Germany in full cooperation with the Saxony Ministry of Education.

    For ALL further conference details and updates please email alan@rogerson.pol.pl
  • Deadline for applications to the 2009 Program for Women and Mathematics at IAS is February 20. This year's program runs June 8 - 19, and the theme is Geometric PDE. More details can be found on the website: http://www.math.ias.edu/wam/2009.
  • The 2008 Sacks Prize Awarded jointly to I. Epstein and D. Raghavan. - The ASL Committee on Prizes and Awards has selected Inessa Epstein of the California Institute of Technology and Dilip Raghavan of the University of Toronto as the recipients of the 2008 Sacks Prize. The prize consists of a cash award plus five years free membership in the ASL for each awardee. For more information, see http://www.aslonline.org/asl_announcements.php#11.
  • Fields Research Immersion Fellowship - The Fields Research Immersion Fellowship deadline is February 28, 2009. This program supports individuals with high potential to re-enter an active research career after an interruption for family responsibilities. For more information, see http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/proposals/research_immersion.html.
  • Sylvia Bozeman will be awarded the AAAS Mentor Award to honor her commitment to increasing the number of African-American women with PhDs in mathematics. http://www.edgeforwomen.org/?p=40.
  • Welcome to the New AMS Executive Director. Professor Donald E. McClure of Brown University has been named Executive Director of the American Mathematical Society. The appointment was approved January 4, 2009, by the AMS Council. McClure succeeds Dr. John H. Ewing, who has held the post for the past 13 years and who is now president of Math for America, a program that aims to attract mathematically talented young people to teach in the nation's schools.
  • Deadline for the 2009 SIAM Workshop Application has been extended to 12:00am, Eastern time, January 19, 2009. Letters of recommendation will be accepted until 12:00am, Eastern time, Wednesday January 21, 2009.
  • 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
  • AWIS announces new Undergraduate awards for women majoring in Science, Engineering, and Math.
    Awards of $500 and $1,000. Application deadline: January 23, 2009.
    For more information on AWIS Educational Foundation Awards, go to www.awis.org/about/edfound.html or contact awisedfd@awis.org.
  • A Panel Discussion and Luncheon: Women in Financial Mathematics will be held at the 2009 Joint Mathematics Meeting. Go here for more information.
  • AWM Events for the 2009 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Washington DC, USA, January 5-8, 2009, now available here.
  • Panel Discussion and Luncheon Women in Financial Mathematics, at the Joint Mathematics Meeting, Washington, DC, 11am - 1pm, Wednesday Jan. 7, 2009, Washington 4, Exhibition Level, Marriott. Please RSVP to Birgit Rudlo (brudlo@princeton.edu) by 01/03/2009.
  • GK-12 Fellows-in-the-Middle Program at Montclair State University - Funded by the National Science Foundation, this program awards qualified research-minded graduate students with a $40,500 fellowship ($30,000 stipend + $10,500 towards tuition) to work in middle schools for two days each week. As part of the program, graduate students participate in training activities, research projects, and field trips (just to name a few components) while they pursue a master's degree at Montclair State University. The application and more information about the grant can be found on the website www.csam.montclair.edu/gk12. The application deadline is January 15, 2009.
  • Complexities: Women in Mathematics, Edited by Bettye Anne Case & Anne M. Leggett is available for $7.00 in cloth (one needs to be located in the US or Canada and to have minimum order of $25). See the website for more details. http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7915.html
  • Now accepting applications for the AWM Workshop for Women Graduate Students and Recent PhDs at the upcoming SIAM Annual Meeting held in Denver, CO, on July 2009: See the workshops page for details on how to apply. - Deadline for applications is Jan 12, 2009.
  • The MAA is now taking orders for its two new posters, Women of Mathematics and Ethnomathematics. Women of Mathematics was originated by Stan Burris as a counterpoint to IBM’s well-known, but now rather rare, Men of Mathematics poster. This poster was funded by the MAA and Sun Microsystems and has been distributed to mathematics departments across the country. Proceed to http://www.maa.org/news/102108poster.html for the order forms.
  • AMS Announces Congressional Fellowship - The American Mathematical Society (AMS), in conjunction with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), will sponsor a Congressional Fellow from September 2009 through August 2010. Application Deadline: January 31, 2009.
  • The Knowles Science Teaching Foundation (KSTF) is seeking applicants for Biology, Physical Science and Mathematics Teaching Fellowships. KSTF Teaching Fellowships are intended to support individuals early in their careers who have the potential to devote a lifetime to improving math and science education. Application instructions can be found online at www.kstf.org. The deadline for applications is Wednesday, January 14, 2009, at 5:00 pm Eastern Standard Time.
  • Now accepting applications for the IAS Women and Mathematics Program "Geometric PDE" to be held June 8-19, 2009. See http://www.math.ias.edu/wam/2009 for details on how to apply. - Deadline for applications is February 20.
  • The Prince George’s County Teaching Fellows is looking for talented, motivated career-changers and recent college graduates dedicated to joining us in changing the quality of education provided to the students of Prince George’s County Public Schools. This is an opportunity for outstanding individuals from all academic backgrounds to become part of an initiative that will allow them to train in the summer, become teachers in the fall, and earn a Maryland Standard Professional Certificate. We are currently accepting applications for our 2009 program, and interviews are limited. For more information about the program and to apply online, please visit http://www.pgcteachingfellows.org or call 301-780-2703.
  • "Cross-Cultural Analysis of Students with Exceptional Talent in Mathematical Problem Solving," published in the November Notices of the American Mathematical Society shows that the percentage of girls on top International Mathematics Olympiad teams varies considerably by country. Many top-ranked countries send more girls to the International Olympiads than does the United States. Also, a large percentage of the faculty members recently hired by top-ranked mathematics departments were born outside the US. These and other findings suggest that in the United States mathematical talented youths, particularly girls, are not identified and nurtured.
  • The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is pleased to announce that Fan Chung Graham will deliver the Noether Lecture at the 2009 Joint Mathematics Meetings. Chung, a professor of mathematics at University of California at San Diego, was selected for this honor because of her fundamental contributions to graph theory and combinatorics.
  • Now accepting nominations for the AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture prize, to be awarded at the 2009 SIAM Annual Meeting in July 2009: See the Kovalevsky Lecture page for more information. Deadline for submission of nominations November 1, 2008.
  • AWM is now accepting applications for the third annual Ruth I. Michler Prize — a award for a midcareer woman to support a semester of mathematical research at Cornell University.
  • The African Mathematics Millennium Science Initiative (AMMSI), will organise a “Symposium on the African Woman and Mathematics” www.ammsi.org The meeting will be held November 29 – 30, 2008, in Girassol Indy Village, Maputo, Mozambique.
  • Science Debate 2008. Mark your calendar for the first-ever Science Debate conference, Innovation 2008: Renewing America Through Smarter Science & Technology Policy, on the beautiful campus of the University of Minnesota on October 20-21! A concerned citizens initiative cosponsored by AAAS, NAS, AWM and others posed the top 14 science questions to the Republican and Democratic Presidential Nominees, John McCain and Barack Obama. Read their full answers to these 14 questions about science developed by a multitude of science organizations.
  • Project NExT and the Young Mathematician's Network invite submissions of abstracts for a poster session to be held on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 from 2:15 to 4:15 p.m. (room TBA) at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Washington DC. If you are interested in participating, submit copies of your abstract to Prof. Mike Axtell (maxtell@stthomas.edu) AND Prof. Kevin Charlwood (kevin.charlwood@washburn.edu)
  • Interested in hosting the next Infinite Possibilities Conference (IPC)? IPC is a national conference designed to promote, educate, encourage and support minority women interested in mathematics and statistics. This unique and special event assembles women mathematicians from underrepresented minority groups from all over the country for a 2-day mathematics conference, and past hosts include Spelman Collge and North Carolina State University. Please visit www.ipcmath.org for more information, including a campus host application.
  • High School Test Scores Show No Gender Differences in Math. By analyzing academic data from 10 states, representing the testing of 7,208,843 youths, Janet Hyde from the Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin and colleagues found that gender differences in math scores were extremely small among all ethnic groups in grades 2-11.
  • Report of the IMU/IMS/ICIAM joint Committee on Quantitative Assessment of Research. Citation-based statistics, such as the impact factor, are often used to assess scientific research, but are they the best measures of research quality? Three international mathematics organizations have today released a report, Citation Statistics , on the use of citations in assessing research quality — a topic that is of increasing interest throughout the world's scientific community.
  • The Association for Women in Mathematics and the Fields Institute will be jointly sponsoring the conference Non-linear Phenomena in Mathematical Physics: Dedicated to Cathleen Synge Morawetz on her 85th birthday, September 18-20, 2008. For more information please visit the website http://www.awm-math.org/conferences.html.
  • Call for Nominations for the seventh annual Janet L. Norwood Award
     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 Seventh Annual Janet L. Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Statistical Sciences. Deadline for receipt of nominations is Mon 6/30/2008. Please see website for more information.
  • Are you interested in pursuing an academic career in science, engineering, or psychology? Come to the Negotiating the Ideal Faculty Position workshop being held October 5-7, 2008 on the campus at William Marsh Rice University to learn how to negotiate the ideal faculty position for you. The website for the workshop and online applications is http://advance.rice.edu/negotiatingtheidealfacultyposition/. Deadline for applications is August 1, 2008
  • A television series about ways to ensure children's educational success: A Math Education: Preparing Students to Succeed in the Knowledge Economy, Tuesday, March 18, 2008, 8:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. ET http://www.ed.gov/edtv
  • The winners of the 2007 "Biographies of Contemporary Women in Mathematics" essay contest have been posted: Please see the Essay Contest page for a list of the winners.
  • AWM Election Results: President-elect: Georgia Benkart, Treasurer: Rebecca Herb, Four Members at large (in alphabetical order): Sylvia Bozeman, Sarah Greenwald, Ruth Haas and Lisa Traynor.
     
  • NSA Grant and Sabbatical Opportunities:Fall deadlines are approaching for grant and sabbatical applications to the NSA Mathematical Sciences Program. Read more about it.
     
  • Individual and institutional members are currently invited to join or renew for 2007-2008. Try the new on-line membership option for new or renewing members!
     
  • The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is pleased to announce its new Teacher Partnership Program. The program is intended to link teachers of mathematics in schools, museums, technical institutes, two-year colleges, and universities with other teachers working in an environment different from their own and with mathematicians working in business and industry.
     
  • Check out the book, Complexities: Women in Mathematics, edited by Bettye Anne Case and Anne M. Leggett.
     
  • Join the AWM Mentor Network, which matches mentors with girls and women who are interested in mathematics or are pursuing careers in mathematics. The network is intended to link mentors with a variety of groups: recent PhDs, graduate students, undergraduates, high school and grade school students, and teachers. Matching is based on common interests in careers in academics or industry, math education, balance of career and family, or general mathematical interests.
     
  • The Association for Women in Mathematics is concerned about the inclusion of Dr. Camilla Benbow on the National Mathematics Advisory Panel. We believe that her presence signals---in perception or in reality---a bias against women and girls. For your consideration we present some background information, a statement from Cathy Kessel, AWM President-Elect, to be publicly presented at the second meeting of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel, and a petition so that you may join us in voicing concern.
     
  • Now accepting applications for Travel Grants and Mentoring Travel Grants: Please see the Travel Grants page for more information and how to apply. Deadline has been extended to February 8, 2008.
     
  • Now accepting applications from undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral scholars for the IAS Women and Mathematics Program "Knots, Surfaces, the Curve Complex, Foliations, and all that..." to be held May 12-23, 2008. See http://www.math.ias.edu/womensprogram/ for details on how to apply. Deadline for applications is February 23.
     
  • Now accepting applications for the AWM-NSF Travel Grants for Women Researchers: Please see the Travel Grants page for details on how to apply. - Deadline for applications is February 8, 2008.
     
  • Now accepting applications for the AWM Workshop for Women Graduate Students and Recent PhDs at the upcoming SIAM Annual Meeting held in San Diego, California, in July 2008: See the workshops page for details on how to apply. - Deadline for applications has been extended to January 23, 2008.
     
  • Recent statistics from the U.S. National Assessment of Educational Progress: Similar average scores for girls and boys in grade 4 mathematics http://nationsreportcard.gov/reading_math_2005/s0025.asp?printver= and in grade 8 mathematics. http://nationsreportcard.gov/reading_math_2005/s0025.asp?tab_id=tab2&subtab_id=Tab_1&printver=#chart
     
  • Recent statistics from the U.S. National Science Foundation: http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/wmpd/sex.htm. In 2004, women earned: 46% of bachelor's degrees in mathematics and statistics (see Table C-4), 45% of master's degrees in mathematics and statistics (see Table E-2), and 29% of Ph.D.s in mathematics and statistics (see Table F-2).
     
  • Subsidized Childcare Services at the Joint Mathematics Meetings The American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America are pleased to announce that for the fourth year they are offering and significantly subsidizing childcare services at the Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM)--next in San Diego, CA, January 6-9, 2008. Please see http://www.ams.org/amsmtgs/2109_daycare.html for more details.
     
  • AWM Events for the 2008 Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego, California, USA, January 5-9, 2008, now available here in pdf format
     
  • The Clay Mathematics Institute will be showing George Csicsery's film "Julia" at the San Diego AMS meeting: Monday, January 7th, Day 2, from 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. in Ballroom G of the San Diego Marriott Hotel and Marina. The film is about the life and work of Julia Robinson.
     
  • AWM 2007 Election:This year, a President-Elect, Treasurer, and four Members-at-Large of the Executive Committee (EC) will be elected. The Members-at-Large positions are contested, so we encourage you to vote. Those elected will take office on February 1, 2008. You may access the online ballot site at http://www.awm-math.org/ballot2007.html. You will need your member ID to vote. Statements and biographical data are also available online. Electronic ballots must be cast by December 17, 2007. If you have any questions regarding the electronic voting process or need your member ID please contact the AWM office at 703-934-0163 or awm@awm-math.org.
     
  • Now accepting nominations for the AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture prize, to be awarded at the 2008 SIAM Annual Meeting in July 2008: See the Kovalevsky Lecture page for more information. Deadline for submission of nominations November 15, 2007.
     
  • Infinite Possibilities Conference (IPC): A national conference designed to promote, educate, encourage and support minority women interested in mathematics and statistics, this unique and special event will assemble women mathematicians from underrepresented minority groups from all over the country for a 2-day mathematics conference on November 2-3, 2007. Please visit the website for more information.
     
  • AWM seeking executive director. Current Executive Director Jennifer Quinn stepped down effective June 30, 2007. More information on the position is available in the press release,  job description, and application details.
     
  • Lai-Sang Young to deliver 2007 Kovalevsky Lecture on May 30 at SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, Utah. Press release.
     
  • AWM and Cornell University announce Rebecca Goldin as the winner of the first Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize of the AWM. Press release.
     
  • Welcome to the newly formed AWM Student Chapter at Emory University. It's now possible to start your own AWM Student Chapter at your university! See the Chapter Petition form, Bylaws, and other guidelines available online.
     
  • Congratulations to Annie Davis, Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Boston,  and Stephanie Higgins, Bates College, for writing Grand Prize winning essays in this year's  Biography of Contemporary Women in Mathematics Contest.
     
  • Thank you  to everyone who made the Joint Mathematics Meetings a great success. Congratulations to Karen Vogtmann on delivering a superb Noether lecture and award recipients:
    Ginger Warfield AWM Louise Hay Award (press release)
    Ana Caraiani AWM Alice T. Schafer Mathematics Prize
    Jennifer Quinn MAA Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics
    Lee Lorch MAA Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Distinguished Service to Mathematics Award
    Karen Uhlenbeck AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for a Seminal Contribution to Research (press release)
    Winners' citations and responses are available in the prize booklet from the AMS website.

     

  • Announcing the slate for this fall’s AWM election. Nominations by petition signed by 15 members are due to
    our president by September 1, 2007. Statements from all candidates will appear in the November-December issue of the AWM Newsletter.
    President: Georgia Benkart, University of Wisconsin
    Treasurer: Rebecca Herb
    Members at Large: Sylvia Bozeman, Spellman College; Beverly Diamond, College of Charleston; Sharon Frechette, Holy Cross; Sarah Greenwald, Appalachia State University; Ruth Haas, Smith College; Claudia Polini, Notre Dame; Ami Radunskaya, Pomona; Lisa Traynor, Bryn Mawr.
     
  • The travel grant application deadline of May 1, 2007 was extended to May 7, 2007.
     
  • Schedule of AWM Events at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, January 5-8, 2007.
     
  • MAA's Tensor-SUMMA grants support projects that encourage females or members of under-represented minority groups to participate in mathematics. Details can be found at http://www.maa.org/programs/tensor-summa.html. The deadline is  February 15. 
     
  • The Association for Women in Mathematics is pleased to announce that Karen Vogtmann will deliver the Noether Lecture at the 2007 Joint Mathematics Meetings. Press Release.
     
  • Deadline Extended: January 15, 2007. AWM Workshop for Women Graduate Students and Recent PhDs, held in conjunction with the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, Utah at the end of May, 2007.
     
  • Project NExT and the Young Mathematician’s Network invite submissions of abstracts for a poster session to be held on Friday, January 5, 2007 from 2:15 to 4:15 p.m. (room TBA) at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in New Orleans. The poster size will be 48" by 36"; it is best to have the posters 36" high. Posters and materials for postingpages on the posters will be provided on-site. We expect to accept about thirty posters from different areas within the mathematical sciences. Please contact Prof. Mike Axtell or Prof. Kevin Charlwood for more details on how to submit an abstract. The deadline for final consideration is December 8, 2006.
     
  • In December 2006, the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) will host a conference, "Finding and Keeping Graduate Students in the Mathematical Sciences". This conference will bring together teams of faculty from institutions interested in building the diversity of their graduate student populations, and a group of presenters and facilitators with a history of success in this area. Further information about the conference can be found at http://www.aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/keepinggrads.html
     
  • AWM Biographies Contest - To increase awareness of women's ongoing contributions to the mathematical sciences, AWM is sponsoring an essay contest for biographies of contemporary women mathematicians and statisticians in academic, industrial, and government careers. This contest is open to middle school, high school, undergraduate, and graduate students. Be sure to get your submissions to the AWM Essay Contest submitted by the November 3rd deadline!
     
  • AWM and EWM, together with the organizers of the ICIAM 2007 Congress, seek nominations for the Olga Taussky Todd Lecture, to be awarded at the ICIAM 2007 Congress in Zurich. This honor is to be conferred to a woman who has made outstanding contributions in applied mathematics and /or scientific computation. The deadline for nominations is November 8, 2007.

  • AWM seeks applications for the first annual Ruth I. Michler Prize—a $40,000 award for a midcareer woman to support a semester of mathematical research at Cornell University.
     
  • The NSF-AWM Travel Grants program received new funding and it is now sponsored by the Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) and the Division of Research, Evaluation and Communication (REC) of the NSF. Please see the Travel Grants page for more information. Note: application deadline for this round is February 1, 2006.

  • The Association for Women in Mathematics, in conjunction with the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, is excited to announce the selection of Irene Fonseca as the 2006 Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer. Press Release.
     
  • Announcing the winners of the 2005 AWM Essay Contest.
     
  • Election Results: President-Elect: Cathy Kessel; Members-at-large: Dawn Lott, Alice Silverberg, Abigail Thompson, Betsy Yanik; and Clerk: Maura Mast. Congrats to all!
     
  • AWM welcomes Jennifer J. Quinn as its Executive Director effective October 1, 2005. Further details in the press release: http://www.awm-math.org/j_quinn.pdf
     
  • Congratulations to Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann recipient of the 2006 CRM-Fields-PIMS prize!
     
  • The Association for Women in Mathematics and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) are joint sponsors of the workshop: Women in Mathematics: The Legacy of Ladyzhenskaya and Oleinik, May 18-20, 2006
     
  • The National Academies' Committee on Women in Academic Science and Engineering invite you to attend an upcoming convocation on Biological, Social, and Organizational Contributions to Science and Engineering Success, held on December 9, 2005 in Washington DC. For more details, please go to: http://www7.nationalacademies.org/womeninacademe/
     
  • The recent proposed Bylaws changes were approved, and two additional at-large positions for the executive committee will be on the ballot this fall.
     
  • ICM travel grants are offered through the AMS. The deadline for the applications is October 31, 2005. Further details available at: http://www.ams.org/employment/icmapp.html
     
  • AWM has a new headquarters and new staff. Starting April 1, 2005, our new managing director is Jennifer Lewis. She is supported by a staff of specialists including Debra Fernandez (Membership Director), Danielle Burns (Meeting and events), Marie LeDoux (Administrative Coordinator), and Valarie Ogoh (Accounting). Please make a note of AWM's new contact information.
     
  • DEADLINE EXTENDED to October 31, 2005. Enter the 2005 AWM Essay Contest!
     
  • AWM has a new headquarters and new staff. Starting April 1, 2005, our new managing director is Jennifer Lewis. She is supported by a staff of specialists including Debra Fernandez (Membership Director), Danielle Burns (Meeting and events), Marie LeDoux (Administrative Coordinator), and Valarie Ogoh (Accounting). Please make a note of AWM's new contact information.
     
  • Special thanks to Dawn Wheeler for her years of service to AWM. We wish her the best of luck as she has moved on to a new position. Dawn was the face of AWM for many years, and she will be missed.
     
  • AWM's response to Harvard President Lawrence Summers' remarks
     
  • Announcing the winners of the 2004 AWM Essay Contest!
     
  • The Association for Women in Mathematics is seeking applicants for a possible position of Executive Director.
     
  • Workshop for Women Graduate Students and Recent PhDs at the Joint Math Meetings in San Antonio, January 12-15, 2006. APPLICATION DEADLINE: September 1, 2005. Call for applications.
     
  • Spelman College announces a new lecture in honor of Etta Z. Falconer given this year by Carolyn R. Mahoney, Ph. D., on Thursday, March 31, 2005.
     
  • Spelman College is proud to host the Infinite Possibilities Conference April 1-2, 2005. This unique gathering will assemble women mathematicians from underrepresented minority groups from all over the country for a stimulating 2-day mathematics conference.
     
  •   Ballot for proposed Bylaws changes in pdf format. Please print a copy, mark your vote and return the ballot to the address on the ballot by April 15, 2005. Thanks!
     
  • IMA-AWM Workshop on Career Options: The Institute for Mathematics and its Applications in cooperation with AWM is hosting a workshop on Career Options for Women in Mathematical Sciences on February 4-6, 2005, at the institute at the University of Minnesota.
     
  • The AWM is continuing its program of Collaborative Research Grants dedicated to the memory of Ruth Michler. We anticipate awarding one to two grants in 2005. Deadline: February 1, 2005.
     
  • We offer a preview of AWM Activities at the 2005 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Atlanta, January 5-8, 2005 including the Emmy Noether Lecture to be given by Lai Sang Young of the Courant Institute, a two-part panel discussion, Achieving Diversity in Graduate Programs co-sponsored with NAM, and the AWM Workshop for Women Graduate Students and Recent PhDs. All are welcome to attend!
     
  • NSA Conference and Workshop Opportunity. Proposals due February 28, 2005.
     
  • Congratulations to Melanie Wood, the first female in history to win the Morgan Prize for mathematical research.
     
  • Congratulations to the newly formed Korean Women in Mathematical Sciences (KWMS). Their inaugural meeting is June 21.
     
  • AWM has established a new web forum on "Supporting the diverse personal lives of mathematicians", organized by Christina Sormani.
     
  • Announcing the 2003 AWM Essay Contest Winners - Congratulations to our winners, selected from 125 contestants from the US, UK, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Germany, and India.
     
  • AWM Election Results: Barbara Keyfitz has become the new President-Elect, and Rebecca Herb assumes the role of AWM Treasurer. We also welcome our new Members-At-Large Krystyna Kuperberg and Ann Trenk and we thank our outgoing committee members for their dedication and excellent contributions.
     
  • FORWARD in SEM (Focus on Reaching Women for Academics, Research and Development in Science, Engineering and Mathematics) announces FORWARD to Professorship Workshop May 19-21 2004, Washington, DC, USA.
     
  • The University of Wisconsin System Women and Science Program invites participation in a 5-day Institute for curricular reform and development.
     
  • April is Mathematics Awareness Month. This year's theme is "The Mathematics of Networks".
     
  • AWM is saddened to learn of the death of Ol'ga Ladyzhenskaya on January 12, 2004. Ladyzhenskaya gave a Special Noether Lecture at the JCM'94 meeting in Zurich on August 4, 1994.
     
  • The AWM will hold a workshop entitled After Tenure: Women Mathematicians Taking a Leadership Role March 12-14, 2004 at the University of Maryland, College Park.
     
  • The AWM announces Collaborative Research Grants for tenured women to travel to other institutions, deadline May 1, 2004.
     
  • SURVEY: AWM has embarked on a strategic planning process to better promote our profession and serve our members. Your feedback is critical to the success of AWM. We need your honest opinions and perceptions. All responses will be kept confidential. Link to Survey of Members Link to Survey of Institutional Members
     
  • AWM Members are invited to vote for AWM officers and board members. Your AWM 2003 Election Voting Materials and Ballot are contained in the November/December 2003 AWM Newsletter. If by chance you have not yet received your Newsletter, you can also download the voting materials in PDF format and download the ballot in PDF format. Only AWM members may vote, each envelope must have a validating signature and printed name, and ballots must be received by December 15th.
     
  • SURVEY: The AWM is investigating the feasibility of onsite childcare at the Joint Mathematics Meetings. If interested, please answer this survey.
     
  • AAAS seeks women scientists with compelling personal stories to address Latin American colleagues. Please check here for details. (Posted 7-19-03 to 12-03-03.)
     
  • A workshop on Women of Applied Mathematics: Research and Leadership will be held October 8-10, 2003 at the University of Maryland at College Park. (This workshop is not affiliated with the AWM.) (Posted 4-16-03 to 12-03-03.)
     
  • AWM endorses resolutions concerning the importance of open international scientific exchange. (Posted 3-5-2003 to 8-8-2003.)
     
  • Women Count: A Conference for Directors of Mathematics Outreach Programs for Young Women will be held on July 29, 2003. Click here for more information. (Posted 6-6-2003 to 8-8-2003.)
     
  • Please contact your senators to request increased funding for NSF. (Posted 6-9-2003 to 8-8-2003.)
     
  • AWM/WiSTEM Lecture Series for 2003 in Cupertino California, on Feb 19, Apr 2 and Jun 11. (Posted 1-29-2003 to 4-18-2003.)
     
  • Please join us for the AWM Activities the SIAM 50th Anniversary and 2002 Annual Meeting, to be held at the Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, July 8-12, 2002. (Posted 6-7-2002 to 9-30-2002.)
     
  • Welcome to our new President-Elect Carolyn Gordon and our new Members-at-Large Fern Hunt, Catherine Roberts, and Judy Walker. We thank our out-going officers for their valuable contributions. (Posted 2-2-2002 to 9-30-2002.)
     
  • AWM is saddened by the sudden death of former AWM Executive Committee member Tilla Weinstein in January 2002. A memorial article from the March/April Newsletter is also available online. (Posted 6-11-2002 to 9-30-2002.)
     
  • The results of the 2001 AWM Essay Contest: Biographies of Contemporary Women in Mathematics are in.Congratulations to the grand prize winner Alexandra McKinney for her essay on Dr. Toni Galvin. Thanks to all the participants and volunteers for making this a great contest. (Posted 1-4-2002 to 9-30-2002.)
     
  • AWM responds to the negative portrayal of girls in mathematics in a Nintendo ad. Thanks to Martin Magid of Wellesley College for bringing this advertisement to our attention. (Posted 6-29-2001 to 9-30-2002.)
     
  • If you are an AWM member, please vote on the bylaws changes proposed regarding the web editor, calendar, committees, and ballots. To vote, copy the ballot from your Jan/Feb Newsletter or download the ballot here (PDF). A description of the proposed changes can be found on pp. 7-9 on the 2001 Voting Materials (PDF). The ballots must be received by the AWM office no later than March 31, 2002. (Posted 1-21-2002 to 6-7-2002.)
     
  • See the pictures from the AWM Workshop in San Diego. (Posted 9-5-2001 to 6-7-2002.)
     
  • The deadline for applications for the AWM Workshop for Women Graduate Students and Recent PhDs at the 2002 SIAM Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA has been extended until January 24, 2002. (Posted 1-18-2002 to 2-2-2002.)
     
  • More upcoming deadlines:
      (Posted 1-1-2002 to 2-2-2002.)
     
  • The Fourth Annual Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics will give outstanding undergraduate women the opportunity to discuss their own research and to meet other women who share their interest in the mathematical sciences. The registration deadline is January 17, 2002. (Posted 11-11-2001 to 1-18-2002.)
     
  • You are invited to join us at the AWM Activites at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego, January 6-9, 2002. This year's Emmy Noether lecturer is Lenore Blum from Carnegie Mellon University. (Posted 12-5-2001 to 1-18-2002.)
     
  • The goal of the ADVANCE program at NSF is to increase the participation of women in the scientific and engineering workforce through the increased representation and advancement of women in academic science and engineering careers. To meet this goal, the FY 01 ADVANCE pilot program provides new award opportunities for both individuals and organizations: Fellows Awards, Institutional Transformation Awards, and Leadership Awards. (Posted 4-3-2001 to 12-5-2001.)
     
  • Women @ SCS (School of Computer Science) is an outstanding example of how a department can mentor its women. (Posted 4-3-2001 to 12-5-2001.)
     
  • Press release from MIT: Leaders of 9 universities and 25 women faculty meet at MIT, agree to equity reviews. (Posted 2-1-2001 to 12-5-2001.)
     
  • View photos from the AWM events at the Joint Math Meetings in New Orleans. (Posted 1-23-2001 to 12-5-2001.)
     
  • Check out our new AWM Bibliography with links to AWM Newsletter Book Reviews. We will continue to add more reviews, and we welcome your suggestions for future reviews. (Posted 2-1-2001 to 12-5-2001.)
     
  • The European Commission ETAN Expert Working Group on Women in Science has created a report entitled, Science Policies in the European Union: Promoting Excellence Through Mainstreaming Gender Equality. One interesting fact: In 1994-95, only about 26% of students in higher education in math and computer science were women. (From AWM-Net Digest, 12-8-2000.) (Posted 12-8-2000 to 12-5-2001.)
     
  • 2001 Annapolis Algebraic Geometry Conference In memory of Ruth Michler, October 25-28, 2001, U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. Click here for a site commemorating Prof. Michler. (Posted 8-17-2001 to 12-5-2001.)
     
  • Your AWM 2001 Election Voting Materials and Ballot are contained in the October/November 2001 AWM Newsletter. If you have not yet received your Newsletter, you can also download the voting materials in PDF formatand download the ballot in PDF format. Only AWM members may vote, each envelope must be have a validating signature and printed name, and ballots must be received by December 1st. (Posted 10-29-2001 to 12-5-2001.)
     
  • AWM Biographies Contest - To increase awareness of women's ongoing contributions to the mathematical sciences, AWM is sponsoring an essay contest for biographies of contemporary women mathematicians and statisticians in academic, industrial, and government careers. This contest is open to middle school, high school, undergraduate, and graduate students. Be sure to get your submissions to the AWM Essay Contest submitted by the November 1st deadline!(Posted 4-2-2001 to 11-11-2001.)
     
  • Upcoming deadlines...
      (Posted 8-17-2001 to 10-3-2001.)
  • The AWM invites you to join as at the AWM Workshop: Focus on Research & Career Experiences, held in conjunction with the 2001 SIAM Annual Meeting (July 9 - 13, 2001), Town & Country Resort Hotel, San Diego, California. (Posted 6-13-2001 to 8-17-2001.)
     
  • Congress is currently considering a bill that would funnel $50 million to programs that inspire girls for Math, Science, Engineering and IT fields. Getting Our Girls Ready for the 21st Century Act HR 1536 bill can be followed on the Internet on a Web site hosted by the nonprofit organization Dads and Daughters.. (Posted 6-13-2001 to 8-17-2001.)
     
  • The AAUW Education Foundation is hosting a Forum on Educational Equity on July 24, 2001 in Washington, D.C. This year's Forum, titled "The Technology Connection," focuses on the connections between equity, technology, and education. (Posted 4-27-2001 to 8-17-2001.)
     
  • We are proud to welcome the NIST Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division as a Friend of AWM in our new Sponsors Program. Encourage your company to become a sponsor today! (Posted 10-25-2000 to 8-17-2001.)
     
  • View the transcript of the live discussion about Increasing the Pool of Minority Ph.D.'s in Mathematics and Science, with Dr. Raymond L. Johnson at the University of Maryland, at the Chronicle of Higher Education: Colloquy Live. (Posted 2-91-2001 to 4-2-2001.)
     
  • With the passing of the ceremonial AWM bowl, Suzanne Lenhart has become the new President of AWM, and Jean Taylor now assumes the role of Past President. We also welcome our new clerk Renee Fister and thank Sue Geller for her service as clerk. (Posted 2-1-2001 to 4-2-2001.)
     
  • We would like to give very special congratulations to the first three African American women to receive math Ph.D.s from the University of Maryland. (Posted 1-11-2001 to 4-2-2001.)
     
  • Karen K. Uhlenbeck, University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded the National Medal of Science. Her citation reads, Uhlenbeck made pioneering contributions to global analysis and gauge theory that resulted in advances in mathematical physics and the theory of partial differential equations. She is considered a founder of geometry based on analytical methods. She is also a leader in encouraging young women to study mathematics. See the UT Austin Press Release and the NSF Press Release for more details. In 1988, Karen Uhlenbeck was AWM's Emmy Noether Lecturer. (Posted 11-20-2000 to 4-2-2001.)
     
  • Listen to the November 2nd NPR "Public Interest with Kojo Nnamdi" show on Women in Mathematics (Real Audio) featuring Margaret A.M. Murray, PhD, author of "Women Becoming Mathematicians: Creating a Professional Identity in Post-World War II America" and Associate Professor of Mathematics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute; Cora Sodosky, PhD, past President of The Association for Women in Mathematics and Professor of Mathematics at Howard University; and Evelyn Granville, retired mathematician. (Posted 11-20-2000 to 4-2-2001.)
     
  • The Third Annual Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics will be held in Lincoln, Nebraska, February 2-4, 2001. The conference is a gathering of talented undergraduate women mathematicians from around the country. (Posted 12-1-2000 to 2-9-2001.)
     
  • View the photos from the IMA/AWM Workshop on Connecting Women in Mathematical Sciences to Industry and the AWM Workshop at the Puerto Rico SIAM Meeting. (Posted 10-25-2000 to 2-1-2001.)
     
  • The Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering, and Technology Development was established by the U.S. Congress in 1998 with a mandate to research and recommend ways to improve the recruitment, retention, and representation of women, underrepresented minorities, and persons with disabilities in science, engineering, and technology education and employment. The full Commission report, Land of Plenty: Diversity as America’s Competitive Edge in Science, Engineering and Technology, is now available on their web site. (Posted 9-20-2000 to 2-1-2001.)
     
  • Dr. Evelyn Boyd Granville, the first African American woman to get a Ph.D. in mathematics (Yale, 1949), is giving the annual Marjorie Lee Browne (Ph.D. Mathematics, University of Michigan, 1950) Lecture at the University of Michigan on the occasion of Martin Luther King Day, January 15th 2001. (Posted 1-11-2001 to 2-1-2001.)
     
  • Join the conversation on our newly re-vamped discussion forums. These forums are provided for discussion of issues related to women and girls in mathematics, applied mathematics, and statistics. (Posted 1-8-2001 to 2-1-2001.)
     
  • Call for volunteers! If you are an AWM member interested in contributing to our ever-growing web site, send email to awm-webmaster@awm-math.org. (Posted 10-25-2000 to 1-23-2001.)
     
  • Be sure to join us at the AWM Activities at the 2001 Joint Mathematics Meetings in New Orleans including the Emmy Noether Lecture on January 11th and the AWM Workshop for Women Graduate Students and Recent PhDs on January 13th. (Posted 12-1-2000 to 1-15-2001.)
     
  • Mary Wheeler (University of Texas, Austin and a former AWM Noether Lecturer) was the center of attention at a Congressional briefing on July 19th which was organized by the American Mathematical Society's Washington Office. Mary's talk was entitled "What Does Water Know About Mathematics?" See the AMS Report on the Congressional Briefing for more information. (Posted 7-30-2000 to 1-2-2001.)
     
  • We mourn the passing of Dirk Struik. He was a giant among geometers, a friend of women in mathematics, and a husband and father of two very special women in mathematics. The AWM plans a tribute to him in a future Newsletter. -Jean E. Taylor, President, Association for Women in Mathematics. This statement will be read at the Dirk Struik Memorial, to be held December 2nd. (Posted 11-30-2000 to 1-2-2001.)
     
  • The AWM is now an Associate of Amazon.com , which means that AWM gets a portion of the proceeds from any purchase you make by clicking on the Amazon.com links throughout our site, including our new Bibliography page with links to individual books that have been reviewed in the AWM Newletter. (Posted 10-25-2000 to 11-20-2000.)
     
  • Check out our new AWM Bibliography with links to AWM Newsletter Book Reviews. We will continue to add more reviews, and we welcome your suggestions for future reviews. (Posted 10-2-2000 to 10-25-2000.)
     
  • Check out the pictures from the AWM Workshop at the SIAM Meeting in Puerto Rico last July. (Posted 10-11-2000 to 10-25-2000.)
     
  • The IMA/AWM Workshop on Connecting Women in Mathematical Sciences to Industry was a great success. We have photos from the workshop, and look for more information coming soon. (Posted 9-18-2000 to 10-25-2000.)
     
  • Congratulations to Marsha Berger who has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences! See the National Academy of Sciences web site for complete election results and the NYU press release for more information about Marsha Berger. (Posted 5-3-2000 to 10-25-2000.)
     
  • Congratulations also to Ingrid Daubechies for receiving the National Academy of Sciences Award in Mathematics. Daubechies was chosen "for fundamental discoveries on wavelet and wavelet expansions and her role in making wavelet methods a practical basic tool of applied mathematics." (Posted 5-18-2000 to 10-25-2000.)
     
  • Get more information about Sarah Greenwald's "Women in Math" class, as described in the July-August Newsletter. (Posted 7-30-2000 to 10-25-2000.)
     
  • Upcoming Deadline: Oct 15th - Nominations for 2002 Emmy Noether Lecturer   (Posted 8-1-2000 to 10-25-2000.)
     
  • It's a great time to join AWM. The new membership year starts Oct 1st, and we offer individual and institutional memberships. (Posted 9-8-2000 to 10-25-2000.)
     
  • In It's Time to Call Your Senators in Support of the NSF FY2001 Budget Request, the AMS reports that, "Congress adjourned last week for the August recess, leaving the FY 2001 appropriations for the National Science Foundation unresolved. During the next few weeks, please join others in the scientific community who will be contacting their Senators to urge support for the President's request for NSF's FY 2001 budget. NSF appropriations fall under the VA-HUD-Independent Agencies appropriations bill, together with NASA and EPA." The AWM President urges AWM members in the US to contact their senators in support of increasing NSF's funding by $675 million (17.3%), as proposed by the President. (Posted 9-18-2000 to 10-25-2000.)
     
  • The IMA/AWM Workshop on Connecting Women in Mathematical Sciences to Industry will be held September 8-10, 2000. (Posted 6-28-2000 to 9-18-2000.)
     
  • Audrey Terras will deliver the AWM-MAA Invited Lecture at Mathfest, to be held at UCLA, August 3-5, 2000. (Posted 5-20-2000 to 8-25-2000.)
     
  • In conjunction with the AMS meeting Mathematical Challenges of the 21st Century (UCLA, August 7-12), AWM will sponsor a talk by Carolyn Mahoney, entitled Demographic Trends and Challenges for Mathematics, and a reception to follow on August 7th. Additionally, AWM President Jean Taylor and AWM Member Karen Uhlenbeck will be two of the thirty distinguished plenary speakers. (Posted 5-4-2000 to 8-25-2000.)
     
  • The American Association of University Women has just issued a report, Tech-Savvy: Educating Girls in the New Computer Age 2000. Among their recommendations: we need a new definition of "fluency" in information technology: "The new standard of `fluency' assumes an ability to use abstract reasoning; to apply information technology in sophisticated, innovative ways to solve problems across disciplines and subject areas; to interpret vast amounts of information with analytic skill; to understand basic principles of programming and other computer science fundamentals; and to continually adapt and learn new technologies as they emerge in the future. It is our job as a society to ensure that girls are just as competent as their male peers in meeting these standards." Sounds a lot like mathematics fluency to me. (From Dianne O'Leary, AWM-Net, Apr 2000). (Posted 5-1-2000 to 7-30-2000.)
     
  • The Computer Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Scholarships (CSEMS) Program provides money to institutions to provide scholarships to students in science. In particular, the infrastructure should support "recruitment of students, with special consideration to groups underrepresented in CSEMS fields, i.e., women, racial and ethnic minorities, and persons with disabilities." The deadline for proposals is August 3rd. (Posted 5-17-2000 to 7-30-2000.)
     
  • Join us at the Westin Grand Mar Resort in Puerto Rice for the AWM Workshop on July 9-11, 2000 in conjunction with the SIAM Annual Meeting. See the program of AWM Activities at the SIAM Annual Meeting for more information. (Posted 5-4-2000 to 7-30-2000.)
     
  • Congratulations to our Hay Award winner Joan Ferrini-Mundy and our Schafer Prizer winner Mariana E. Campbell. Nominations for next year's awards are due by October 1st. (Posted 2-18-2000 to 6-29-2000.)
     
  • Visit the AWM Picture Gallery: 2000 Joint Mathematics Meetings to see your friends and colleagues at various AWM events. Thanks to the participants and volunteers that made these events a great success. (Posted 1-30-2000 to 6-29-2000.)
     
  • Recommended reading: A Study on the Status of Women Faculty in Science at MIT. The committee has found that in the last decade, "discrimination consists of a pattern of powerful but unrecognized assumptions and attitudes that work systematically against women faculty even in the light of obvious good will." (Posted 3-26-1999 to 6-29-2000.)
     
  • Two mathematicians have made Women.com's 100 Women of the Millennium - Grace Murray Hopper and Ada Byron Lovelace. (Posted 3-24-2000 to 6-29-2000.)
     
  • We're happy to announce our revamped discussion forums. Join in the conversation, including a discussion on how to increase the number of tenured women in mathematics departments. Christina Sormani of Lehman College, CUNY is our forum moderator. Thanks, Christina! (Posted 3-3-2000 to 6-29-2000.)
     
  • The CBMS invites comments and advice on a new draft of the Report of the CBMS Mathematics Education of Teachers Project. This is a project whose goal is to produce a document targeted at Departments of Mathematics to help them improve their efforts in the education future K-12 teachers of mathematics. Please send your comments by June 1st. (Posted 3-20-2000 to 6-6-2000.)
     
  • Welcome to our new President-Elect Suzanne Lenhart and our new Members-at-Large Joan Feigenbaum and Ginger Warfield. Farwell to our valued Past President Sylvia Wiegand and Members-at-Large Teresa Edwards and Lynn Butler. (Posted 2-1-2000 to 5-4-2000.)
     
  • Check out the pictures from the Olga Taussky Todd Celebration of Women in Mathematics held at MSRI in July.(Posted 9-19-1999 to 5-4-2000.)
     
  • The AWM online advertisements are now in full swing. Thanks to Oakland University's Department of Mathematics and Statistics for being our first advertiser! (Posted 12-3-1999 to 3-3-2000.)
     
  • AWM President Jean Taylor has initiated a discussion on Girls and Math Competitions. Please join the discussion to add your ideas and insights.(Posted 5-18-1999 to 3-3-2000.)
     
  • This new survey has found that more women and minorities are earning PhDs than ever before, though some key fields, from business to engineering, are still lacking. Sorry - link to longer works.(Posted 11-10-1999 to 2-29-2000.)
     
  • Upcoming deadlines...
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  • Join the AWM on January 19-22 at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Washington, D.C. AWM events will include the Emmy Noether Lecture by Margaret Wright and the AWM Workshop for Graduate Students and Recent PhDs. (Posted 10-21-1999 to 2-1-2000.)
     
  • AWM is pleased to announce a new program, AWM Scholars at the AAAS Meeting. Up to six women, graduate or advanced undergraduate, will be chosen to attend the AAAS Annual Meeting, February 17-22, 2000, in Washington DC. (Application deadline: December 20, 1999) (Posted 11-1-1999 to 1-14-2000.)
     
  • The AWM is now accepting online advertisements. The AWM web site has over 5,000 visitors a month (and growing!). Get your message out to women mathematicians and statisticians, both students and professionals.(Posted 11-12-1999 to 12-3-1999.)
     
  • The AWM Resources Collection has been reorganized into the following categories: Education, Career, Biographies, and Organizations. (Posted 9-19-1999 to 11-13-1999.)
     
  • Interested in K-12 mathematics? Here are the two links mentioned in the July-August President's Column: Mathematicians in Math Education at the Math Forum and Resources for Involving Scientists in Education. Contact the AWM president if you'd like to help get AWM more involved in this area. (Posted 7-23-1999 to 11-13-1999.)
     
  • Thanks to the Exxon Educational Foundation for once again approving a $5,000 grant to AWM, making a grand total of $105,000 over many years. If your organization would like to donate funds to AWM, please contact the AWM president. (Posted 7-23-1999 to 11-13-1999.)
     
  • Upcoming deadlines: (Posted 8-3-1999 to 10-11-1999.)
     
  • Do you have a colleague that you would like to nominate to serve AWM? Just have a petition signed by 15 AWM members and send it to the AWM President by September 1st. (Posted 8-3-1999 to 9-5-1999.)
     
  • Please join AWM at MathFest99, July 31st – August 2nd, and see Chuu-Lian Terng's AWM-MAA Invited Lecture on Geometry and Visualization of Surfaces.(Posted 7-23-1999 to 9-5-1999.)
     
  • The European Women in Math (EWM) Newsletter 1999 including an article on the ICM Panel on Women by Sylvia Wiegand. (Posted 5-3-1999 to 9-5-1999.)
     
  • Have fun viewing our pictures from AWM's activites at the 1999 San Antonio Workshop. (Posted 3-25-1999 to 9-5-1999.)
     
  • AWM is proud to announce its new Mentoring Travel Grants program which grants program funds travel, subsistence, and other required expenses for an untenured woman mathematician to travel to an institute or a department to do research with a specified individual for one month. (Posted 1-31-1999 to 9-5-1999.)
     
  • Check out the Challenge Grant for New Member Recruitment. It's a great time to join AWM! Tell a friend! (Posted 12-30-1998 to 9-5-1999.)
     
  • Cathleen S. Morawetz has been awarded the National Medal of Science, the nation's highest scientific honor! See also the story from USA Today, the AMS press release, and the NSF press release. (Posted 12-9-1998 to 9-5-1999.)
     
  • Read AWM in the 1990s: A Recent History of the Association for Women in Mathematics by Sylvia Wiegand and Jean Taylor, an expanded version of same article in the latest issue of the AMS Notices. Then join the discussion moderated by Elizabeth Allman. (Posted 12-9-1998 to 9-5-1999.)
     
  • The program for the Olga Tauskky Todd Celebration is now available. All are welcome and invitied to attend this event. (Posted 6-28-1999 to 7-23-1999.)
     
  • Upcoming AWM events... (Posted 5-17-1999 to 7-23-1999.)
     
  • Updated information on the Olga Taussky Todd Celebration now available, including the list of plenary speakers. (Posted 5-3-1999 to 5-17-1999.)
     
  • Mathematics is a great career! According to the "The Jobs Rated Almanac", Mathematicians have the "Best Working Environment" and Mathematician ranks number 5 overall out of 250 careers. Check out the article on CNN Interactive for more details! Ed's note: This link is no longer functioning. Sorry! (Posted 1-21-1999 to 3-12-1999.)
     
  • 1999 Summer Program for Women in Mathematics (SPWM 99) at The George Washington University - SPWM 99 is a five-week (June 26-July 31, 1999) intensive program for mathematically-talented undergraduate women who are completing their junior year and may be contemplating graduate study in the mathematical sciences. Deadline: March 1st. (Posted 1-21-1999 to 3-12-1999.)
     
  • The Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics will be held March 5-7, 1999. Funding is available for undergraduate women to attend this conference. Send email to womenws@math.unl.edu for more information. Deadline: Feb 22nd. (Posted 1-4-1999 to 2-24-1999.)
     
  • If you wish to nominate a subject (a notable woman who died between 1976 and 1999) for the next volume of Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, please send a short synopsis of her career and its importance as well as basic bibliographic sources to Susan Ware, Editor ( notable@ratcliffe.edu). (Posted 1-2-1999 to 2-19-1999.)
     
  • Do you have suggestions for new AWM officers to be elected next fall? Send a message with your ideas by February 15th! (Posted 2-2-1999 to 2-19-1999.)
     
  • 1999 Grants for Women and Mathematics Projects - The Tensor Foundation, working through the MAA, plans to award grants for projects designed to encourage college and university women or high school and middle school girls to study mathematics. Proposal deadline: February 5,1999. (Posted 10-28-1998 to 2-11-1999.)
     
  • Call for submissions: A New Generation of Feminist Science Studies. For more information contact M. Mayberry at mayberry@nevada.edu. (Posted 12-18-1998 to 2-2-1999.)
     
  • January AWM Deadlines... (Posted 12-18-1998 to 1-21-1999.)
     
  • Film maker requests help with film on Hilbert's Tenth Problem, which is in part a biography of Julia Robinson. (Posted 12-4-1998 to 1-21-1999.)
     
  • Join us at AWM-sponsored events at the Joint Mathematics Meetings (San Antonio, Jan 13-16th), including the AWM Workshop. (Posted 11-16-1998 to 1-21-1999.)
     
  • The Olga Taussky Todd Celebration of Careers in Mathematics for Women will be held July 16-18, 1999 at MSRI, Berkeley, California. This special meeting will showcase the research of outstanding women in mathematics. (We expect that travel funding will be available for students and recent PhD's, and the deadline for applications is February 18, 1999.) (Posted 10-22-1998 to 12-18-1998.)
     
  • Women from around the globe attended the 1998 International Conference of Mathematics (ICM) in Berlin, and we have photos of women's events at ICM'98 to share with you as well as our president's Report on the Berlin ICM from the AWM Newsletter. (Posted 10-22-1998 to 12-18-1998.)
     
  • Congratulations to Ioana Dumitriu of New York University for her outstanding performance in the 58th Putnam Mathematics Competition. Ioana received the $1000 Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize, named for the wife of William Lowell Putnam and awarded "to a woman whose performance on the Competition has been deemed particularly meritorious." Ioana is no stranger to mathematics prizes - she won the same award in 1997 when she was the first woman to ever score in the top six on the Putnam, and in 1996 she was awarded the AWM Alice T. Schafer Prize. (Posted 10-8-1998 to 12-18-1998.)
     
  • The AWM Careers That Count brochure is now available online. This brochure was created to encourage individuals to look at the mathematical sciences as a possible career choice and includes profiles of 15 mathematicians, all women! (Posted 8-24-1998 to 12-4-1998.)
     
  • Check out the pictures up from the Baltimore (Winter, 1998) and the Toronto (Summer, 1998) Workshops. (Posted 8-3-1998 to 12-4-1998.)
     
  • New Web Site Feature! Track deadlines and upcoming events on the AWM Calendar! (Posted 9-15-1998 to 11-16-1998.)
     
  • The 1998/99 Membership Forms are now available. Join or renew your membership now! And consider giving a gift membership to a friend or colleague. (Posted 9-1-1998 to 11-16-1998.)
     
  • From the July/August Newsletter, we have An Interview with Melanie Wood by Sylvia Wiegand. Melanie is the first female to ever be on the USA Math Olympiad Team. (Posted 8-1-1998 to 10-22-1998.)
     
  • Nominations are now being sought for the Emmy Noether Lecture Series. (Deadline: October 15th.) The next lecture in the Noether series will be given by Krystyna M. Kuperberg of Auburn University at the Joint Meetings this January in San Antonio. (Posted 9-15-1998 to 10-20-1998.)
     
  • October 1st is the deadline for nominations for the Hay Award for excellence by a woman in mathematics education. (Posted 9-15-1998 to 10-7-1998.)
     
  • Mark your calendars! Several deadlines are upcoming for AWM programs.
    • Sept 1st, Application deadline for AWM San Antonio Workshop to be held in conjuction with the AMS/MAA joint meetings in January.
    • Sept 15th, Nomination deadline for Schafer Prize to be awarded to an undergraduate woman for excellence in mathematics.
    • Oct 1st, Nomination deadline for Hay Award to recognize the outstanding acheivements of a woman in any area of mathematics education.
    (Posted 7-30-1998 to 9-15-1998.)
     
  • We've added searching ability to our site. Try a search! (Posted 7-30-1998 to 9-15-1998.)
     
  • Thanks to the Association for Women in Computing (AWC) for naming our website "Pick of the Month" for June, 1998. (Posted 7-30-1998 to 8-24-1998.)
     
  • We hope you'll be able to join us at some of the following events this summer... (Posted 6-7-1998 to 8-24-1998.)
     
  • Appeal to AWM Members: Please contact your legislators to resurrect the Doubling bill and the support for science. More information on what you can do. (Posted 6-7-1998 to 7-30-1998.)
     
  • For the first time in its 24 year history, the six-member USA Mathematical Olympiad team will include a female: Melanie Wood, 16, of Indianapolis, who tied for first place. Source: USA Today, May 21, 1998. (Posted 5-22-1998 to 7-30-1998.)
     
  • We are sorry that Kay Smith of St. Olaf College will be stepping down from the treasurer job due to other commitments. Thank you so much, Kay, for your wonderful contributions to AWM! We welcome Amy Cohen of Rutgers University as our new treasurer. (Posted 6-1-1998 to 7-10-1998.)
     
  • Position available at the AWM Headquarters in College Park, Maryland (DC Metro Area) for a financial professional. (Posted 5-21-1998 to 5-29-1998.)
     
  • "A Celebration of Women in Mathematical and Statistical Sciences" will be held May 22-23, 1998 at the University of Waterloo. (Posted 5-19-1998 to 5-25-1998.)

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