Category Archives: mentoring

Girls Talk Math: Not Your Ordinary Math Camp

Posted on September 25, 2018 by Brian Katz

Guest Post by Francesca Bernardi & Katrina Morgan girlstalkmath@unc.edu http://girlstalkmath.web.unc.edu/ Programs supporting girls in STEM are becoming more and more common. But we believe there is a gap in these offerings: General STEM programs tend to leave out the M, … Continue reading →

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Highlights from the Latinx in the Mathematical Sciences Conference

Posted on March 16, 2018 by Adriana Salerno

It is hard to know where to start when speaking about this conference, held this last weekend at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) at UCLA, and organized by Federico Ardila, Ricardo Cortez, Tatiana Toro, and Mariel Vasquez. … Continue reading →

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If you build it, they will come: the Math Alliance and the Field of Dreams conference

Posted on November 22, 2017 by Adriana Salerno

A few weeks ago I attended the 2017 Field of Dreams conference. This is the annual gathering of Scholars and Mentors of the Math Alliance. I wasn’t really aware of this group until about a year ago, when I heard … Continue reading →

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The Secret Lives of Mathematicians: Conversations with Students

Posted on October 17, 2017 by Piper

This keeps happening to me: Student: When did you decide to become a calculus teacher? Me: I didn’t, and I’m not. Student: … And then I laugh reassuringly and explain that they are at a research university and that their … Continue reading →

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On performing queerness and mathematics: Emily Riehl interviews Mike Hill

Posted on October 9, 2017 by Adriana Salerno

(Guest post by Emily Riehl.) A few months ago, after our post for Pride month, the i/e editorial board reached out to Spectra to request a guest blog post. That led to the wonderful interview that follows, which was conducted during … Continue reading →

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At ICERM, Girls Get Math!

Posted on August 26, 2017 by Adriana Salerno

(Guest post by Katharine Ott.) The Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM) is an NSF-funded math research institute at Brown University. ICERM is known in the math community for hosting research mathematicians from across the world through … Continue reading →

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i/e Spotlight: SACNAS

Posted on May 25, 2017 by Adriana Salerno

As mentioned in our first post, one of the many purposes of this blog is to write about organizations focusing on supporting underrepresented people in math. In that spirit, we are starting a series called i/e Spotlight, where we feature different organizations and … Continue reading →

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