At the first GBM of the spring 2026 semester (Thursday the 5th), we launched preparations for Sonia Kovalevsky (SK) Day 🥳! SK Day is an AWM community outreach day to encourage middle school students to continue studying and/or appreciate math! We host activities/mini workshops with the students throughout the day and welcome some guest speakers.…
AWM collaborated with the Women in Computer Science (WiCS) on a workshop introducing students to the language and interfaces of Git/GitHub. Thanks to WiCS for leading the instruction portion!
In the title story of Lesley Nneka Arimah’s anthology What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky, mathematicians in a post-apocalyptic Africa are experts at sensing emotion and treating its ailments. The main character, Nneoma, lives the elite lifestyle of the mathematicians (able to cut to the front of the bread line, for…
Our December GBM wrapped up AWM’s programming for fall 2025. We reserved the meeting as a social hour – no announcements or administrative business – to talk about our semesters and share more about ourselves over cocoa and holiday-themed cookies.
Happy Thanksgiving, all! On the Monday before Thanksgiving, the AWM joined Women+ in Robotics Engineering (WiRE), Women and Gender Minorities in Physics (WAGMiP), and other women affinity groups for a Thanksgiving social gathering with pie, hot cocoa, and cider. Participants were invited to bring a pie to share, either store-bought or homemade; if homemade, the…
We were pleased to have Prof. Fatma Terzioglu visiting from North Carolina State University, where she serves as an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics at NC State. Prior to joining NC State, she was a W. H. Kruskal Instructor at the University of Chicago, where she worked with Guillaume Bal. She received her…
On Thursday, November 13, the STEM Education Center, partnering with numerous organizations at and around WPI (including AWM!), hosted a free community screening and conversation of Counted Out, a powerful documentary that interrogates the way math is taught in schools and explores how math shapes everything from economic opportunity to democracy. From the Counted Out…
On Thursday, the AWM chapter met for our November GBM. We reflected on our October activities (including our fantastic outreach event with BCB Club and second collaboration with SIAM) and looked ahead to November events. In particular, we highlighted the upcoming STEM Education Center-hosted screening of Counted Out, a documentary that interrogates the way math…
In collaboration with the AWM student chapter at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK), our AWM chapter co-hosted a virtual session on the graduate experience at five universities scattered around the eastern United States. Lauren Whalen, the president of the AWM chapter at the University of Florida, moderated the panel discussion, which featured Savannah Williams…
Alongside the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), AWM organized a workshop on creating a personal website. The main idea: Whatever your goals — obtaining an internship or job, joining a lab, going to grad school, finding postdoctoral opportunities — a strong online presence can help! We went over the advantages, must-dos, and nice-to-haves…