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The Mathematics of Time and Human Futures

By Kim Larkin As an artsy kid and a dreamer, I didn’t see the connection at the time, but even when I wasn’t looking for it, math was there in my life. It didn’t appear as equations, but rather as the unseen foundation underlying my fascination with finding patterns, asking why, imagining possibilities, and playing...

Calculus for Teachers: Toward Elliptic Functions

By David Bressoud @dbressoud As of 2024, new Launchings columns appear on the third Tuesday of the month. In the September Launchings, I explained a remarkable result due to Cauchy that if C is a simply closed curve and f is any complex function that is analytic in a simply connected open region that includes C,...

Building Your Mathematics Community for Non-Academics

By Zerotti Woods, Mathematician, The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory Ok, let's set the scene. You're a freshly minted professional mathematician. You've graduated, those new letters “Ph.D.” have been officially added to your name, and you have a great job offer. Your job offer is not in academia, but that's ok because, recently, graduate programs...

Check Your Bias: Using Inclusive Selection Practices

By Jenna Carpenter, Dean and Professor of Engineering, Campbell University @jennapcarp; Betty Mayfield, Professor Emerita of Mathematics, Hood College; and Francis Su, Benediktsson-Karwa Professor of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College @mathyawp Joint Mathematics Meetings 2020 Employment Center Suppose you and some colleagues are choosing an invited lecturer for your Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Section meeting....

JEDI Warriors for Convergence Research in Mathematics

By Carrie Diaz Eaton I recently attended an Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM) Hot Topics Workshop on Mathematical and Computational Approaches to Social Justice Research co-organized by Veronica Ciocanel, Nancy Rodriguez, and Chad Higdon-Topaz. There was an amazing speaker line-up with superstars like Tawana Petty, of Data for Black Lives, and...

The Pot of Gold at the End of the Rainbow — How Mathematics Departments Can Increase LGBTQ+ Inclusivity

By Joseph Nakao, Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Delaware Healthy mathematics departments frequently ask themselves, “Are our students happy?” Although it is a deceivingly simple question, the answer is difficult to discern. What exactly does it mean for a student to be ‘happy’? Personally, I believe it boils down to whether or not a...

Let’s Be Kind to Our Students

By Allison Henrich, Seattle University In the past month, I’ve had a student hospitalized for a panic attack, a student grieving the loss of a high school friend who took his own life, a student whose father is in a coma, a student who had a family member pass away after a battle with COVID,...

Committee on Minority Participation in Mathematics Statement in Support of our Asian and Asian American Community Members

On March 16, 2021 a man killed eight people, including six women of Asian descent, and injured one man in a shooting spree in Atlanta, Georgia. This violence has renewed broader calls to support our Asian and Asian American communities. The specifics of this tragic incident remind us that there are multiple layers of identity-based...

Parenting and Professing During a Pandemic: Five Mothers’ Experiences

By Lisa Bromberg, Springfield College; Jennifer Gorman, College of Southern Nevada; Erin McNicholas, Williamette University; Jessica O’Shaughnessy, Shenandoah University; and Lesley Wiglesworth, Centre College We wanted to write a blog post about our experiences being a faculty member and parent during the pandemic, but, frankly, we’re exhausted. We came to the conclusion that none of...

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...

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...

¡Let’s Rumba!

By Andrea Arauza Rivera Exploration - meeting our wonders with action and forging a path forward. The Research for Undergraduates on the Mathematics of the Bay Area (RUMBA) program, supported by an MAA Tensor-SUMMA grant, gives students at Cal State East Bay the opportunity to explore their communities via mathematical projects. Nine undergraduates, a graduate...

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