On Friday, July 28, the YSU Association women in Mathematics Student Chapter was awarded the AWM Award for Professional Development at the MathFest Conference in Chicago, Illinois. The chapter was served with a piece of paper along with a $100 honorarium. The examples below students attended the big event: Monica Busser, Julie Phillis, Alanis Chew, Sarah Elizabeth Odidika, Mirella Boulus, Hannah Haynie, Jacqueline Chapman, Ashley Amendol, Lexi Rager, Christine Langer, and Nathalie Halavick.
The aim of the award ended up being to reward the scholar chapter due to the recruitment and expansion of students’ professional involvement in mathematics.
Alanis Chew, a junior Business Economics and Mathematics major, is the Secretary of YSU’s AWM Student Chapter. On the subject of the AWM Award for Professional Development, Alanis explained that “our chapter received this award as a consequence of our former president, Monica Busser, who started the AWM Bigs and Littles program.”
She also mentioned that Busser organized several events in promoting women in STEM. A lot of the events that YSU’s AWM was pertaining to were pursuing a conference that provided a inclusive environment in STEM, the Women’s History Month Colloquium, additionally, the Women in Math Trivia Day.
Each member that attended the conference also presented research they’ve got done anything about for the past year. Some of the research topics include Konstant’s Partition Function, Preparation for Industrial Careers in Mathematics, infinite series, bones, and muscles.
President Julie Phillis began her research in April with all the aid of a unique computer system. “We were continuing the studies done by Gabrielle Van Scoy, who graduated the 2009 spring with your ex math degree and it is now pursuing her PhD on the University of Kentucky,” said Phillis. “Gabbie succeeded in having a mathematical simulation that accurately mimics how bone cells form bone in nature.”
Researcher Lexi Rager and her group found applications of recommender systems. “Our research uses recommender systems while in the academic sphere,” said Rager. “We’ve created a program that recommends classes and professors to students dependant on classes and professors each student has had and liked.”
AWM strives to advertise and encourage women to get more linked to a math community. Chew stated that the chapter “wants everyone to grasp how amazing female mathematicians are and in what ways much fun math is often!”
AWM also helps many different events that this math department hosts like movie nights and pancake dinner nights.
“There aren’t any qualifications to participate in AWM, you just need to likely be operational to make numerous new friends,” said Chew.
Any students which can be excited about joining AWM can email Alanis Chew at [email protected] or President of AWM, Julie Phillis at [email protected]. There are also the group on Facebook.
