Faculty Advice Panel A key focus for the University of Delaware student chapter was career preparation and academic success, both for undergraduate and graduate students. For career preparation they launched a two-part seminar series, “All Things Job Applications,” designed to demystify the job search process in both academia and industry. The first session [...]
In 2024-2025, the Mathematics Department, University of Toronto student chapter launched a Peer Mentorship Program for graduate students in the Mathematics Department. Designed to support first-year graduate students—especially those new to the university or field—the program paired them with upper-year graduate student mentors. The goal was to provide academic guidance, emotional support, and community connection [...]
Throughout the year, the UC Davis chapter of the Association for Women in Mathematics engaged in coding events that have been enriching experiences. They hosted a Python Turtle Workshop, which was led by their vice president, Jessica. In this workshop, Jessica took them through a tutorial on drawing with Python Turtle. They learned about everything, [...]
The Professional Development Committee of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities's graduate student chapter organized monthly panels covering essential topics such as open access publishing, postdoc applications, CV writing, and website making. In addition, they organized monthly writing workshops, which provided accountability partners and quiet work time. A lot of students utilized this time to [...]
The SUNY Geneseo student chapter organized and hosted a guest speaker event focused on Math Education for D/deaf Students. The talk was led by Carolyn Cronauer, a 2009 graduate of SUNY Geneseo (BA in Mathematics with Adolescence Certification (7-12)), now a high school mathematics teacher at the Rochester School for the Deaf and an advocate [...]
The Colorado School of Mines student chapter have run their “Feminist Flight Club” Discussion/Workshop run several times now. The workshop is based on the book of the same name by Jessica Benne (https://www.feministfightclub.com/). The book is broken up into smaller vignettes, each presenting an issue related to sexism that one might face in the workplace [...]
Washington University in St. Louis student chapter paired master’s students, junior PhD students, and post-bacc students with senior PhD students. At the initial event, most of the target audience and the senior graduate students were present. The organizers asked the target audience to first interact with the senior graduate students and then write on paper (provided earlier) [...]
For the University of Rhode Island student chapter’s inaugural event, they hosted alum Susan Olson (Worcester Polytechnic Institute). The talk was recorded and shared with several sections of undergraduate mathematics courses. The event provided valuable insight into what it means to do research in mathematical biology. Dr. Olson discussed collaboration across disciplines, how mathematicians work with biologists [...]
Clemson University’s student chapter ran a variety of professional development workshops – besides faculty and graduate students panels, they also ran an REU and Internship session, a Resume and Cover Letter workshop and a LaTeX workshop. LaTeX Workshop: Dr. Ryan Cartor from Clemson University explained what LaTeX is used for generally and gave a live [...]
Since 2019, over 1000 participants have attended SUNY Old Westbury student chapter Math in Motion events. They have had some famous panelists hosting these events, including female roboteer LeeAnn Cushing from Discovery Channel’s BattleBots, NY State Senator Anna Kaplan and SUNY Vice Chancellor Dr. Shad Sandvik. In 2024-2025 their events included Math in Baking, Math [...]
