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AWM Seminar Series – Panel Discussion: Graduate Experiences Around the Country

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…

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AWM/SIAM Personal Website Workshop

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…

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Family STEM Night with BCB Club

On Friday, October 24, AWM joined with the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Club at WPI to co-host a mathematical biology-inspired exhibit for Family STEM Night at the Boys & Girls Club of Worcester, an annual event organized as part of Mass STEM Week. The AWM/BCB exhibit was built around a DNA-inspired bracelet/keychain activity. For this…

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Continue reading Book Club – Closing the Gap
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Book Club – Closing the Gap

Closing the Gap: The Quest to Understand Prime Numbers narrates progress on the Twin Prime Conjecture made from the breakthrough work of Dr. Yitang Zhang in May 2013 (proving the existence of infinitely many pairs of twin primes that are at most 70 million apart) through the incremental “closing of the gap” achieved through the…

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Continue reading AWM/BCB Family STEM Night Prep Session
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AWM/BCB Family STEM Night Prep Session

Family STEM Night, part of Mass STEM Week, is a free event hosted by the Worcester Boys & Girls Club and the Central MA STEM Network (CMSN) Ecosystem where children, youth, families, and the community can explore the wonders of STEM through hands-on activities, exhibits, and demonstrations presented by colleges, organizations, and businesses. This year,…

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Continue reading New Faculty Meet-and-Greet 2025
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New Faculty Meet-and-Greet 2025

On Thursday, the AWM hosted a meet-and-greet with the newest female faculty members of the Department of Mathematical Sciences: Prof. Charlotte (Charly) Fowler (joined in fall 2024) and Prof. Jane Ivy Coons (joined in fall 2025). We are excited to have them with us at WPI! After brief introductions about academic paths, research interests, and…

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AWM/SIAM LaTeX Workshop

Our first personal and professional development workshop of the year was a collaboration with the newly reinvigorated WPI chapter of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). AWM created a handwritten worksheet that served as a basis for the workshop; the goal was to, in learning how to typeset in LaTeX, reproduce the content…

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