Author Archives: Beth Malmskog

IPAMania

I just spent a week working intensively with 5 people from very different backgrounds, whom I had mostly never met, on a problem that I’d never seen before Monday. And it was great, though I did need to sleep for … Continue reading

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Collaboration, Bias, and Tenure

I was pretty bummed to read this New York Times article about the prospects for women seeking tenure in Economics. In case you don’t have time to read it all right now: in recent study, Economist Heather Sarsons found that … Continue reading

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Go VSCAWM!

This fall I helped some students organize the Villanova Student Chapter of the Association for Women in Mathematics (VSCAWM). While we currently have the worst acronym ever, the group is going really well. I decided to start a student chapter … Continue reading

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