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AWM creates a community in which women and girls can thrive in their mathematical endeavors.

AWM is a professional organization which encourages the participation of women in mathematics.

08/24/2026

The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2027 AWM Mary & Alfie Gray Award for Social Justice is Leslie Ain McClure, professor of biostatistics at Saint Louis University (SLU) and dean of the SLU College for Public Health and Social Justice. The Award recognizes McClure for a career that brings the mathematical sciences vigorously and imaginatively to bear on the cause of social justice.

For more than twenty-five years, Dr. McClure has used rigorous biostatistical theory and spatial statistical methods to show how race, place, socioeconomic position, and policy shape unequal health outcomes across the life course. Through the imaginative application of novel measures of neighborhood, environmental, and social disadvantage, her work makes structural inequities visible and locates their causes in systemic conditions rather than in the individuals who experience them, ensuring that, rather than perpetuating biases, mathematical models and analyses reflect lived realities.

McClure’s commitment to justice extends to her leadership and mentorship, from nine years on the Executive Council of the Math Alliance to her advising and mentorship of scholars traditionally underrepresented in the mathematical sciences. For research, leadership, and mentorship that together demonstrate the power of mathematics in the service of social justice, AWM is honored to recognize Leslie Ain McClure. The award will be presented during the Joint Prize Session at the 2027 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Chicago, IL.

Please join us in congratulating Dr. McClure!

Read the full press release here:
🔗https://awm-math.org/awards/gray-award/mary-alfie-gray-award-for-social-justice-2027/.

08/21/2026

The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is pleased to announce that the 2027 M. Gweneth Humphreys Award will be awarded to Pamela E. Harris, professor of mathematics and associate vice chancellor for research at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. The award, which will be presented at the 2027 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Chicago, recognizes her deep dedication to mentoring and her extensive contributions to broadening inclusivity in the mathematics community.

Dr. Harris’s impact on young mathematicians has been dramatic and expansive. She has supervised the research of over 150 undergraduate students, a majority of whom identify as members of groups historically excluded in higher education. Her students speak effusively about her empathy, encouragement, and dedication. One former student noted, “Professor Harris goes above and beyond to empower women in math so that we feel we belong.…She makes the field a brighter, more accessible, and more welcoming space for students from under-represented backgrounds.”

Beyond working with her own students, Dr. Harris has reshaped the broader landscape of mentoring in mathematics through numerous initiatives to help others become better mentors for women and students from underrepresented groups. She is president and cofounder of Lathisms: Latinxs and Hispanics in the Mathematical Sciences, co-hosts the podcast Mathematically Uncensored, co-led the MSRI Critical Issues workshop: Mentoring for Equity, and is coauthor of multiple books on equity in mathematics departments. Among these are Asked and Answered: Dialogues On Advocating For Students of Color in Mathematics, which is read in book clubs around the country. These widely accessible resources serve as guiding lights for policy and practice changes by laying out a concrete pathway for others who wish to reflect on and improve their mentoring practices with attention to race, gender, and other intersectional identities.

Please join AWM in congratulating Dr. Harris!

Read the full press release here:
🔗 https://awm-math.org/2027-gweneth-humphreys-award/.

08/19/2026

The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is pleased to announce that the 2027 Louise Hay Award for Contributions to Mathematics Education will be presented to Marilyn Carlson, professor in the ASU School of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences at Arizona State University.

Over an illustrious 45-year career, her substantial contributions to mathematics education have largely centered on undergraduate mathematics, particularly around college algebra, precalculus, and calculus. As one nominator notes, her research and development projects “have generated novel insights into developing and adapting research-based assessments, curricula, and professional development for mathematics faculty, graduate students, and secondary teachers.” In addition to her long-standing and impactful research agenda designed to enhance the teaching and learning of these core mathematics topics, she also has led a number of important program development initiatives, including as a collaborator in designing ASU’s PhD program in mathematics education. She has been the major advisor of 18 PhD students and has served on numerous other graduate student committees, receiving the Outstanding Doctoral Student Mentor Award from ASU in 2013, and serves as an undergraduate mentor at ASU, as well.

Dr. Carlson’s efforts to improve mathematics education across secondary and postsecondary learning environments have had substantial national impact for thousands of students and their instructors. Further, as one nominator’s letter attests, she has “consistently contributed to national research initiatives aimed at advancing both mathematics teaching and learning,” Her and her collaborators’ national assessment instruments around precalculus and calculus are now part of the The Mathematical Association of America’s nationally disseminated suite of placement tests and are widely used by mathematics departments to assess student readiness for calculus and learning in college algebra and precalculus.

Please join AWM in congratulating Dr. Carlson!

A full press release is posted here:
🔗 https://awm-math.org/2027-louise-hay-award/.

08/17/2026

The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is pleased to announce that the 2027 Joan & Joseph Birman Research Prize in Topology and Geometry will be awarded to Maggie Miller, assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics at The University of Texas at Austin. The award will be presented at the 2027 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Chicago, IL.

Dr. Miller is a leader in the low-dimensional topology community and an exceptional researcher whose work combines phenomenal visual intuition, technical depth, originality, and remarkable breadth. Her PhD thesis made major progress on a longstanding question of Casson and Gordon concerning homotopy 4-spheres. These results were consequences of her foundational work on the interaction between fibrations on knot and surface complements. Her subsequent work, both solo and with collaborators, resolves several long-outstanding questions on concordance of surfaces in 4-manifolds, knots and their spanning surfaces in dimensions 3 and 4, and knotted surfaces, via a broad set of techniques, and includes many intricate diagrammatic and geometric constructions.

Before joining UT Austin, Miller was a Clay Research Fellow through the Clay Mathematics Institute, a Stanford Science Fellow at Stanford University, and an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She received her PhD in Mathematics from Princeton University under the supervision of David Gabai in 2020. Her work has already received major recognition, including the Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize, a Sloan Research Fellowship, a Packard Fellowship, and an invited sectional lecture at the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians.

Please join AWM in congratulating Professor Miller!

The full press release is posted here:
🔗 https://awm-math.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/PR-Birman-2027-Miller.pdf.

08/14/2026

Help AWM empower future leaders in the mathematics community by donating to a newly dedicated fund that will help a select group of graduate students attend the AWM Workshop at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (SIAMCSE27).

🔗 https://donorbox.org/student-support-awm-siam27

Graduate students supported by your donation will have the chance to participate in the following events at the AWM Workshop at SIAMCSE27.

✅ Juried Poster Session: students will present posters about their research and discuss their work with Poster Session attendees
✅ Minisymposia on Mathematical Biology: research talks organized by the AWM Research Network on Mathematical Biology
✅ Mentoring Luncheon: a chance for students to meet with more senior mathematicians to discuss research, career development, and other topics
✅ Professional Development Panel: Navigating Opportunities and Challenges in the Era of AI

We have a goal of raising $20,000 for this fund and have already raised more than $5000. Please add your donation to the equation today and help us meet our funding goal!

Talent + Opportunity + Mentorship + Visibility + AWM Support = Success!

Thank you for your support.

08/12/2026

The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is currently accepting nominations for the following AWM prizes through September 15, 2026.

🏆 2027 AWM Dissertation Prizes:
An annual award for up to three outstanding PhD dissertations presented by female mathematical scientists and defended during the 24 months preceding the deliberations for the award.

🔗 Submit nominations here: https://www.mathprograms.org/db/programs/1944.

🏆 2027 Alice T. Schafer Mathematics Prize:
An annual award that recognizes a woman undergraduate who has demonstrated excellence in mathematics.

🔗 Submit nominations here: https://www.mathprograms.org/db/programs/1939.

Photo 1: AWM President Raegan Higgins with 2026 Dissertation Prize awardee Naghmeh Akhavan

Photo 2: AWM President Raegan Higgins with 2026 Dissertation Prize awardee Tejasi Bhatnagar

Photo 3: 2026 Schafer Prize awardee Saskia Solotko

Photo 4: 2026 Schafer Prize awardee Khyathi Komalan

Photo 5: 2026 Schafer Prize awardee Chloe Marple

08/11/2026

The deadline for graduate students and recent PhDs to submit an application for the AWM Poster Session at the 2027 Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) in Chicago, IL is just around the corner!

📅 Deadline: August 15, 2026
🔗 Apply here: https://www.mathprograms.org/db/programs/1924

✅ Poster Session Details: Open to all areas of research; individuals working in areas related to Symplectic and Contact Geometry or Topology are especially encouraged to apply. AWM will provide partial travel support to selected participants in the AWM Workshop, thanks to generous support from Jane Street. To be eligible for participation and funding, individuals must have made substantial progress towards their thesis.

✅ All Poster Session applications should include:
• Title of the proposed poster
• Abstract in the form required for AMS Special Session submissions for the Joint
Mathematics Meetings
• Curriculum vitae
• One letter of recommendation from the applicant’s thesis advisor

✅ Workshop Format:
• Special Sessions showcasing recent work by AWM Research Networks in Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology (WiSCon) and in Topology (WiT)
• Professional Development Panel
• Mentoring Luncheon
• Juried Poster Session for graduate students and recent PhDs

For more details about the AWM Workshop at JMM 2027, please go to:
🔗 https://awm-math.org/meetings/awm-jmm/.

08/10/2026

The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is currently accepting nominations for the following AWM prizes. The deadline to nominate someone for one of these prizes is September 15.

🏆 AWM-MAA Falconer Lecture:
This lecture, which is co-sponsored by AWM and the Mathematical Association of America, is presented at MAA MathFest each summer, and honors women who have made distinguished contributions to the mathematical sciences or mathematics education.
🔗Submit nominations here: https://www.mathprograms.org/db/programs/1915

🏆 AWM-SIAM Kovalevsky Lecture:
Co-sponsored by AWM and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, this lecture recognizes individuals in the scientific or engineering community whose work highlights the achievement of women in applied or computational mathematics, and is presented at the SIAM Annual Meetings.
🔗Submit nominations here: https://www.mathprograms.org/db/programs/1922

🏆 AWM-AMS Noether Lecture:
This lecture, which is co-sponsored by AWM and the American Mathematical Society, is a one-hour expository lecture given at the Joint Mathematics Meetings each January, and honors women who have made fundamental and sustained contributions to the mathematical sciences.
🔗 Submit nominations here: https://www.mathprograms.org/db/programs/1945

08/08/2026

AWM President Dr. Raegan Higgins speaks at 2026 MAA MathFest in Boston.

Which AWM events did you attend at the meeting? Let us know in the comments!

✅ Dr. Christina Edholm of Scripps College delivered the AWM-MAA Falconer Lecture

✅ EvenQuads Learn to Play session

✅ AWM-MAA Project NExT Panel - To Graduation and Beyond: A Panel on the Job Market Process for Grads and Undergrads

✅ AWM-MAA Invited Paper Session - Bridging the Gap: Insights with Modeling

✅ AWM Panel - Mental Health in the Mathematics Community

✅ AWM-SIGMAA Session - Recreational Mathematics, Including Using Games and Puzzles to Enhance Core Math Courses

✅ AWM Workshop - Math & Crafts: Fun for All

📸 by Mathematical Association of America

08/07/2026

Congratulations to Christina Edholm, Associate Professor of Mathematics at Scripps College, who gave the 2026 AWM-MAA Falconer Lecture at MAA MathFest today!

In her talk entitled "Bridging the Gap with Mathematical Modeling," Dr. Edholm explored a variety of mathematical modeling problems and discussed how to "bridge the gap between subjects and the disconnect between the modeling outcome and real-world implications."

For more information about Dr. Edholm and her work, go to:
https://awm-math.org/awards/falconer-lectures/falconer-lecture-2026/.

The Association for Women in Mathematics and the Mathematical Association of America annually present the Etta Zuber Falconer Lecture to honor women who have made distinguished contributions to the mathematical sciences or mathematics education. While the lectures began with MathFest 1996, the title “Etta Zuber Falconer Lecture” was established in 2004 in memory of Falconer’s profound vision and accomplishments in enhancing the movement of minorities and women into scientific careers.

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