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    • Human-Centered Mathematics: Jennifer Bowen’s MAA Spotlight
    • MAA AMC Awards $25,000 to 43 Young Women for Top Mathematics Performance
    MAA AMC Young Women in Mathematics Share Their Stories
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    MAA AMC Young Women in Mathematics Share Their Stories

    Washington, D.C. (May 13, 2022) - “No matter how much the gender gap knocks you down, if you enjoy it, go for it, don’t let it stop you,” says Catherine Xu, 2022 AMC 10 A Award winner and AMC 8 & 10 B Certificate recipient. Xu is one of 632 young women across the cou...
    Human-Centered Mathematics: Jennifer Bowen’s MAA Spotlight
    Recent Stories

    Human-Centered Mathematics: Jennifer Bowen’s MAA Spotlight

    “It was a clerical error,” Jennifer Bowen recalled as the catalyst for her mathematical journey. As an undergraduate student studying mathematics at Boston College, Bowen had taken a part-time job grading papers for the math department. She had enjoyed the subject since ...
    MAA AMC Awards $25,000 to 43 Young Women for Top Mathematics Performance
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    MAA AMC Awards $25,000 to 43 Young Women for Top Mathematics Performance

    Washington, D.C. (April 22, 2022) – The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) is proud to continue to close the gender gap in mathematics by awarding certificates to 632 young women for their participation in this year’s MAA American Mathematics Competitions (AMC). T...
    MAA AMC Young Women in Mathematics Share Their Stories
    Human-Centered Mathematics: Jennifer Bowen’s MAA Spotlight
    MAA AMC Awards $25,000 to 43 Young Women for Top Mathematics Performance
    Recent Stories
    MAA AMC Young Women in Mathematics Share Their Stories

    Washington, D.C. (May 13, 2022) - “No matter how much the gender gap knocks you down, if you enjoy it, go for it, don’t let it stop you,” says Catherine Xu, 2022 AMC 10 A Award winner and AMC 8 & 10 B Certificate recipient. Xu is one of 632 young women across the cou...

    13 May 2022

    Recent Stories
    Human-Centered Mathematics: Jennifer Bowen’s MAA Spotlight

    “It was a clerical error,” Jennifer Bowen recalled as the catalyst for her mathematical journey. As an undergraduate student studying mathematics at Boston College, Bowen had taken a part-time job grading papers for the math department. She had enjoyed the subject since ...

    27 April 2022

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    MAA AMC Awards $25,000 to 43 Young Women for Top Mathematics Performance

    Washington, D.C. (April 22, 2022) – The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) is proud to continue to close the gender gap in mathematics by awarding certificates to 632 young women for their participation in this year’s MAA American Mathematics Competitions (AMC). T...

    22 April 2022

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    Team USA Earns First Place at 2022 European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad

    Washington, D.C. (April 12, 2022) - This spring, Team USA earned first place in the 11th European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad (EGMO), with each student also earning a medal for their individual performances. The EGMO is an international mathematics competition focused o...

    12 April 2022

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    Finding Belonging in Mathematics

    Shanise Walker looks back at her early education with gratitude, in which she saw herself reflected in the math teachers she encountered. As of 2018, women only made up 29% of all mathematics doctorate recipients, and members of underrepresented minority groups only made...

    29 March 2022

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    Mathematical Association of America Celebrates the Power of Mathematics in Partnership with Citadel and Citadel Securities

    Washington, D.C., February 23, 2022 – The Mathematical Association of America (MAA), the world’s largest community of mathematicians, students and enthusiasts, today announced a new partnership with Citadel and Citadel Securities to increase student interest in pursuing ...

    23 February 2022

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    82nd Putnam Competition Announces Top Students in Undergraduate Mathematics

    Washington, D.C. (February 22, 2022) – Today, the results of the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, the pre-eminent mathematics competition for undergraduates in the United States and Canada, were announced. The 82nd annual Putnam Competition, administered b...

    22 February 2022

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    A Happy Accident and a Lifelong Legacy

    Jacqueline Jensen-Vallin’s MAA story began as something of an accident. As a recent Ph.D. graduate from the University of Oregon, Jensen-Vallin was accepted as a Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Project NExT fellow. “I have to admit,” she recalls. “I assumed tha...

    22 February 2022

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    Mathematical Association of America Welcomes New and Thanks Outgoing Officers

    Washington, D.C. (February 1, 2022) – The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) is excited to welcome the following to its Board of Directors:

    1 February 2022

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    Mathematical Association of America Welcomes New MAA FOCUS Editor

    Washington, D.C. (January 31, 2022) – The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) is pleased to welcome Allison Henrich as the new editor-elect of MAA FOCUS, the newsmagazine of the MAA. Published six times a year, MAA FOCUS provides MAA members with information about ...

    31 January 2022

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