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…
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.
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!
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.)
On Friday, September 20, we had our A-Term general body meeting. Students brainstormed ideas for the upcoming term and discussed our WPI experiences with Lauren Feldman, Assistant Director for Gender Equity and Sexuality at ODIME.
AWM hosted coffee, snacks, and conversation with Dr. Hom, who was awarded the 2024 Levi L. Conant Prize for her paper “Getting a handle on the Conway knot” (Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 59 (2021), 19–29). She delivered the 2024 Levi L. Conant Lecture at WPI.
The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) hosted its first event of the school year on Thursday, September 5th from 12-2pm. Our annual Welcome Events provides a great opportunity for students to introduce themselves and/or connect with returning members.