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How I Learned to Mitigate Sustainability Issues with Maths

By Rhea Ghosal In March 2025, smoke from the Crabapple Fire north of Fredericksburg pushed across the Hill Country toward Austin. News alerts kept stuttering in, and by morning a family friend’s house was gone. Later we stood in a kitchen that still smelled of smoke, talking about wind, dryness, and how fast the fire...

2025 MathFest Recap

By Erin Moss The National Science Foundation (NSF), via their Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE), offers several different grants that can be used to improve undergraduate mathematics education. The August 2025 MathFest provided multiple opportunities to find support for writing a grant application, including a poster session, a panel, and one-on-one meetings with NSF program...

Everyone has a Math Values Blog Post in Them

By Stan Seltzer Stan Seltzer At a recent meeting of the Committee on Journals, Deanna Haunsperger asserted that everybody has a Math Values blog post in them. And I'd swear, she was looking at me. *** The career-advice literature is full of articles about how to give a research talk, how to give a talk...

Navigating the Transition to Graduate School: Hopes and Anxieties

By Barry Henaku Barry Henaku My name is Barry Henaku and I am a recent graduate of Washington University in St. Louis and an incoming graduate student in mathematics at the University of Michigan. Although the transition to graduate school presents a unique opportunity to reflect on one’s future aspirations and past mistakes, it may...

Mathematical Wonder: An interview with magicians Matt Baker and Joshua Jay

By Tim Chartier For many people, what math and magic have in common is that they can both be utterly befuddling. But for Joshua Jay and Matt Baker, there’s much more to the connection than that. Matt Baker Joshua Jay is a former World-Champion in close-up magic and Guinness record-holder for card tricks. He makes...

Vector Poetry

By Radoslav Rochallyi Radoslav Rochallyi Can vectors be used to describe the shape and movement of words in poetry? Through the creation and analysis of this type of expression, it is possible to understand the world around us better and create new, stimulating works of art, thus opening a new era of creative expression. Poets...

My Questions for Guiding an Initial Mentoring Meeting

By Pamela E. Harris In my new position as a professor at a research institution, I am beginning to build mentor-mentee relationships with graduate students, which (as is expected) are relationships that can last a lifetime. Mentoring graduate students is impactful work that requires great care and nothing to take lightly. As I began to...

Unlocking the Aperiodic Monotile’s Secrets: An Interview with Craig Kaplan

By Tim Chartier Craig Kaplan On Monday, March 20, 2023, a paper “An aperiodic monotile” appeared on the arxiv (https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10798). It introduced a 13-sided polygon called “the hat” that tiled the plane aperiodically. Simply put, the research result is huge. The news not only spread quickly among mathematicians, but it also spread to the...

Dialogue is Necessary

By Michael Pearson Michael Pearson In June 2021, California added Florida to its list of states for which the use of state travel funds is prohibited. These travel bans were enacted on the basis of a 2016 California law declaring that "California must take action to avoid supporting or financing discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual,...

A Case for Quantitative Reasoning

By Josh Recio, Course Program Specialist and Nikki Gavin-Swan, Math Faculty, Lane Community College @dtkung @Josh_Recio @utdanacenter Josh Recio If you had a say in what mathematics you wanted your family members to fully understand, what would it be? What about your coworkers? Community members? What about yourself? Nikki Gavin-Swan There’s a safe bet that...

“My Job is Awesome”

By Jen Bowen and Allison Henrich Dr. Yen Duong Dr. Yen Duong is a freelance science writer based in North Carolina. This is part of the interview that Jen Bowen did with her in March 2022. Duong earned her PhD at the University of Illinois at Chicago in geometric group theory and random groups. She...

Communication in Graduate School

By Alex Luna Alex Luna After about two and a half years of graduate school, my perspective about many things has changed. The way that I interpret studying and general learning is one example, but an unexpected item is communication. Professional interaction is an area that I put a lot of thought into, as it...

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