When Assistant Professor of Mathematics Selvi Kara was a faculty member at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama ...

Happy Pi Day! Cheers to black female mathematicians. Today, March 14 (3/14), marks the annual celebration because the date represents the first three digits of the mathematical constant π (pi), ...

The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is a non-profit organization founded in 1971 that seeks to create a community in which women and girls can thrive in their mathematical endeavors, and to ...

Her colleagues say Ruth Haas, Achilles Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, has what it takes to spark a passion for the subject in her students. “She is sensitive, caring—and tough,” says Jim ...

A double major in electrical engineering and mathematics, Gia Azcoitia says she doesn’t encounter many women in her studies. That is why she decided to form her own network. Now in her senior year, ...

“Solving mathematical problems gave me a unique sensation of freedom that did not depend on what happened around me,” confessed Irina Kmit, a Ukrainian mathematician, now a professor in the ...

They are known for their work in the Manhattan Project and other military programs or in hives of space-race activity such as NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia. But some of the thousands of ...

A group of Black women, crucial to NASA’s achievements during the space race and famously known as the “Hidden Figures,” were honored with a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony on Capitol Hill. These ...

A group of women mathematicians uncovered Soviet spies– but received none of the credit. In the 1940’s, the US government had a mission: find Soviet spies that had infiltrated their nuclear program.