At the first of our monthly GBMs this semester, we were happy to welcome some new members to the chapter, share about upcoming events, and hear activity ideas from the general body. It was a small but engaged group! We ended the GBM with an arts & crafts activity to make your own (mini) SET…
It was a beautiful day – sunny but cool – for our annual Welcome Event! We host a Welcome Event each year, complete with pizza, cookies, soda, and lawn games, to introduce AWM to new WPI members and say hello to returning ones. This year, we had over two dozen newcomers and many familiar faces…
Welcome back to campus, all! AWM is excited to start up again for the 2025-26 school year. Two of our exec board members from the last academic year, Caitlin Ho (PR Chair) and Natalie Tierney (Vice President), graduated, and we welcome two new members, Mia Zheng (Vice President) and Virginia Iadanza (Treasurer)! Our first gathering…
We successfully held our 7th annual “Sonia Kovalevsky Day (SK Day): An Empowering Day for Middle School Girls Who Love Math!” on campus on Saturday, April 12 (despite the random mid-April snowstorm that swept through on the morning of!). This year’s event included opening remarks by WPI math department chair Prof. Sarah Olson, a Q&A…
For our C-Term GBM, we organized an info session for new and returning members to learn about this year’s SK Day, taking place on Saturday, April 12, and ways that they could be involved in its planning and execution.
For our last event of the fall semester, we collaborated with WPI’s Art and Design Club for a paper crafts night, complete with cocoa and cookies.
Dr. Becca Thomases is Professor and Department Chair of Mathematics at Smith College. She visited WPI in November to deliver a colloquium talk titled “Micro-organism locomotion in viscoelastic fluids.” AWM was honored to host a coffee hour with her before the talk!
Every Friday from 12:00-2:00pm, ODIME has free, freshly baked cookies in the OASIS House. AWM co-sponsored the November 8 event in B-Term 2024!
AWM was excited to have Prof. Maria Fung visit us and share about her experiences as a college professor at a state university serving a diverse body of students. Maria Fung is a professor of mathematics at Worcester State University. Her main interests lie in the mathematical preparation of K-12 teachers, inquiry-based and active learning pedagogy, and…
This was a fun social event organized with WPI’s Crochet Club! Students enjoyed coffee, pastries, and conversation while learning how to crochet hyperbolic surfaces. This event was inspired by the creative work of Dr. Daina Taimiņa, retired adjunct associate professor of mathematics at Cornell University. (Read more about her work here.)