Posts tagged women in math
Happy Birthday, Evelyn Boyd Granville...
Evelyn Boyd Granville in 1997. Photo by Margaret Murray, via Mathematicians of the African Diaspora by Scott W. Williams.
Evelyn Boyd Granville, the second African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, turns 90 today (May 1, 2014).
Although Granville was one of the only black students at both Smith and Yale, she says she never felt d [...]
A Conversation with Laura DeMarco and...
An image created in the course of Laura DeMarco’s dynamical systems research. Image: Laura DeMarco.
I talked with mathematicians Laura DeMarco and Amie Wilkinson about how they got interested in math, the importance of female role models for young women in math, and their advice for aspiring mathematicians. You can read my interview wit [...]
Celebrating the Grandmothers of STEM
Astrophysicist Carol Jo Crannell, mathematician Annalisa Crannell, and Iolanthe Good, three generations of women who love STEM. Image: Ximena Catepillan.
In honor of my grandmother’s birthday last Thursday, I wrote about Grandma Got STEM, a blog that collects stories of older women in science careers.
Some have had illustrious careers a [...]
On Pregnancy and Probability
I have never been pregnant, but from what I understand, it is full of bizarre cravings, frequent bathroom breaks, and a smorgasbord of medical scans and tests. This last part is what concerns Kate Owens. She is a visiting assistant professor in the math department at the College of Charleston, and she is also pregnant with her second child. [...]
Mathy Ladies to Follow on Twitter
Image: Design Shack
In the current issue of the Association for Women in Mathematics newsletter(password required), Anne Carlill asks where the female mathematicians are on Twitter:
“I found that the only female mathematicians or math educators I followed were Nalini Joshi in Sydney and Fawn Nguyen in California. In contrast there are about 1 [...]
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