Self-Determination and Strength on the Journey to Mathematics: Miranda Teboh-Ewungkem’s MAA Spotlight

WASHINGTON, DC - Announcing the results of the 2022 William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, the most prestigious mathematics competition for undergraduates.

… as hokey as this sounds: mathematics is probably the closest we could ever get to really talking to God. That’s why I decided to study it. ~Geillan Aly

…My fellow math faculty at the community college where I teach are inspirational. They love what they do - even when things get frustrating - because they care deeply about our students. We aren’t afraid to change - whether it’s rethinking how we approach developmental m...

“You cannot be neutral in issues of justice,” Brian Katz says. “So [one’s] choice is not between action and inaction; it’s between action that supports justice and action that resists justice.” Katz cites this as the best advice they have ever received.

Proof and theorem: don’t fear ‘em - Dan Kalman, “Math Anxiety Treatment”

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...

“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 ...

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...

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...