Noteworthy
Roger Sidje Selected to Participate in Leadership U’s Fifth Cohort
Dr. Roger Sidje, associate dean for multicultural affairs in the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of Mathematics, has been selected to participate in The University of Alabama’s Leadership U program. Leadership U began in 2010 as a way to prepare faculty and staff in leadership positions to take on increasing levels of responsibility within […]
UA begins incentivizing math education
This article first appeared at eCampusNews. The University of Alabama has created a new pathway to get the best and brightest minds into secondary mathematics teacher education. The Alabama State Department of Education recently approved a new UA accelerated master’s program that will allow select undergraduate math and math education majors to complete master’s degree requirements […]
Profiling Women in Math on Wikipedia
AWM members at the 2017 Research Symposium took over the UCLA math lounge to write Wikipedia entries on women in mathematics in a daylong “edit-a-thon.” The hallway outside the lounge was lined with pictures of dead male mathematicians, but the conversation inside focused on living women. “It was so much fun learning how to edit Wikipedia!” said Keisha Cook, a […]
Lawrence Roberts is awarded a Simons Foundation Grant
The Simons Foundation announced today that Professor Shan Zhao’s Collaboration Grant for Mathematicians application, “Extending Bordered Methods in Khovanov Homology” was selected for funding. The goal of the program is to support the “mathematical marketplace” by substantially increasing collaborative contacts between mathematicians. More information about the Simons Foundation can be found on the Simons Foundation website.
