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By Jakini Kauba Jakini Kauba Photo credit: Angela Kerr Photography I am Jakini Auset Kauba, a first year PhD student in Mathematical Sciences at Clemson University. This is my fifth—and what I hope to be my final—degree. While many doctoral students earn a bachelor’s and a master’s degree before their doctoral studies, I had the...

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Hoop Math from the Sideline with Dean Oliver

By Tim Chartier, Davidson College Tim Chartier Dean Oliver is a pioneer in sports analytics. In 2002, Oliver wrote Basketball on Paper which became the handbook for how to do basketball analytics, and he became the first analytics consultant in the NBA. Oliver later joined ESPN and guided the sports analytics group in developing football...

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Testimonios: Dr. Victor H. Moll

Testimonios, a new publication from MAA/AMS, brings together first-person narratives from the vibrant, diverse, and complex Latinx and Hispanic mathematical community. Starting with childhood and family, the authors recount their own particular stories, highlighting their upbringing, education, and career paths. Testimonios seeks to inspire the next generation of Latinx and Hispanic mathematicians by featuring the...

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Building Teacher Educators’ Confidence with Mathematics and Statistics Action Technologies

By Erin Moss, Co-Editor, DUE Point, Millersville University From Allison NcCulloch, PI: “This is Nina Bailey–one of the GRAs that worked tirelessly to make this project a success!” Faculty who prepare preservice secondary mathematics teachers (PSMTs) are not always familiar with or confident utilizing the software those teachers may soon encounter in their own teaching....

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First-Generation Guilt

Roberto Hernandez By Roberto Hernandez (he/him/his) I am a Mexican-American first-generation student, currently a third year PhD student in the Department of Mathematics at Emory University. I come from a small under-privileged community in Los Angeles where the norm for many kids is to reach a high school diploma and pursue no higher education. My...

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Testimonios: Dr. Hortensia Soto (En Español)

Testimonios, a new publication from MAA/AMS, brings together first-person narratives from the vibrant, diverse, and complex Latinx and Hispanic mathematical community. Starting with childhood and family, the authors recount their own particular stories, highlighting their upbringing, education, and career paths. Testimonios seeks to inspire the next generation of Latinx and Hispanic mathematicians by featuring the...

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Testimonios: Dr. Omayra Ortega (En Español)

Testimonios, a new publication from MAA/AMS, brings together first-person narratives from the vibrant, diverse, and complex Latinx and Hispanic mathematical community. Starting with childhood and family, the authors recount their own particular stories, highlighting their upbringing, education, and career paths. Testimonios seeks to inspire the next generation of Latinx and Hispanic mathematicians by featuring the...

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Not a Walled Garden

By Keith Devlin @profkeithdevlin Professor Ken Ono, Marvin Rosenblum Professor of Mathematics and Chair of the Mathematics Department at the University of Virginia. Photo from FOCUS, August/September 2022. The August/September issue of the MAA magazine FOCUS has a wonderful article by Jonathan Weisbrod about a Superbowl-week beer commercial starring renowned mathematics professor Ken Ono of...

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My Mathematical Journey: The Macdonald-Morris Conjectures

By: David Bressoud @dbressoud The q-Dyson theorem that was the subject of my August Launchings was not an isolated result. It sits within a larger context that was a very active area during the 1980s and has continued to expand through the decades. This is some of the most beautiful mathematics that I have known....

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Getting Graphic with Alberto Cairo

By Tim Chartier, Davidson College Tim Chartier Our world produces a stunning amount of data and each year we produce data at an increasing rate. In 2010, the world is estimated to have created 2 zettabytes of data, which grew to approximately 64 zettabytes by 2020. If each gigabyte in one zettabyte were a brick,...

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