Ten Tips to Being Productive Online for Students — and Everyone

By Lucy Martinez, student at Stockton University As one the founders and a member of the AWM student chapter at Stockton University, I was recently part of a discussion with our student chapter about how to be successful when taking classes and doing our work-study online. It has been almost a year since classes, conferences,...

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Simple Ways to Build Community in an Online Classroom

By Dagan Karp and Darryl Yong Over the last year of remote online instruction, we’ve both desperately missed all of those informal in-person interactions with students before, during, and after class that help to build a sense of classroom community and a welcoming atmosphere. Given that there’s lots of great advice out there on how...

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Reflections on the COVID Job Market

By Kristin DeVleming and Rhea Palak Bakshi Between budget crises and pandemic lockdowns, this year is one of the strangest times to be looking for a new job. Here are two perspectives from people on the COVID Job Market. Kristin DeVleming Kristin received her PhD from the University of Washington and is now a postdoc...

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The Instagram Egg and COVID-19

By Tim Chartier @timchartier What does the viral activity in social media have to do with the coronavirus? Both are viral, although in very different ways. While vaccines offer hope, we are still in a time where social distancing plays an important role. Hospitals are overwhelmed, and the importance of flattening the curve is ever-present....

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Running a Job Search Amid the Pandemic: New Variables and Constants

By Carl Yerger, Chair, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Davidson College Photo by Andrew Neel on Unsplash. The job market in mathematics can be an overwhelming place on both sides of the interview table. There are significantly more job seekers than jobs available, applications for a single position can reach multiple hundreds. Additionally, there...

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Economics Makes College Algebra Come Alive

By Audrey Malagon, Lead Editor, DUE Point, Virginia Wesleyan University In 2019, we featured the SUMMIT-P Project that brought together faculty across institutions to create mathematics curricula relevant to other disciplines. Here we catch up with Tao Chen at Laguardia Community College to see how the curriculum they’ve developed as part of the SUMMIT-P project...

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The Enabler: An Interview with Lloyd Douglas

By Deanna Haunsperger Lloyd Douglas, former program officer at the National Science Foundation (NSF). In 1994, I met NSF program officer Lloyd Douglas at a workshop organized by Mills College which had plans to write a large proposal to the NSF to fund women's summer math programs throughout the US in an effort to increase...

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Preparing A Virtual Teaching Demo

By Anisah Nu’Man, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Spelman College, @_nudoc_ In the US, it has been a little over a year since we have had our first confirmed case of the coronavirus. Since then, as a community, we have been trying to adjust to what’s been called the “new norm.” For those in academia this...

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A Need, a Voice, and Our Fight Against [White] Approval

By Pamela E. Harris, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Williams College, @DPEHarris and Aris Winger, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Gwinnett College, @ArisWinger “I’d also like to ask the reader to make sure that when we share stories, that they hear them and listen for understanding rather than responding. Listen to these stories. Feel the feeling that...

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COVID-19 and Learning Loss

By Keith Devlin @profkeithdevlin How do people learn? After being in the learning and education world, one way or another, all my career, I don’t have a good answer to that question. Even when I apply it to myself as a learner. This is, in part, why I used the more cumbersome phrase “learning and education...

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