Nancy Sattler

During Women’s History Month, #JCW honors Dr. Megan Wawro, a Virginia Tech professor whose work in undergraduate math education, inquiry-based teaching, and mentorship advances learning and collaboration

The Joint Committee on Women in the Mathematical Sciences (#JCW) honors Dr. Talithia Williams whose work extends beyond academia—partnering with the World Health Organization, hosting PBS NOVA, and inspiring millions through her TED Talk Own Your Body’s Data #WomensHistoryMonth

March is #WomensHistoryMonth! The Joint Committee on Women in the Mathematical Sciences (#JCW) honors Dr. Eileen L. Poiani for her leadership in higher education, sustainability, and her dedication to advancing opportunities for #womeninmathematics

March is #WomensHistoryMonth! The Joint Committee on Women in the Mathematical Sciences honors Dr. April Ström of Chandler-Gilbert Community College for 25+ years of inspiring active, joyful math learning. MAA 2025 Dolciani Award recipient & MAA & AMATYC .👏 #WomenInMath

The #JCW honors Dionne Price (1971–2024), ASA President & FDA biostatistician, who championed statistical leadership, advocacy & diversity. An ASA Fellow, she advanced drug safety, education, & equity in statistics. Her impact on science & policy endures. #Biostatistics

#JCW honors Dr. Jenna P. Carpenter, Founding Dean of Engineering at Campbell Univ., and MAA President-Elect. She served on Biden’s Infrastructure Council & Global Engineering Deans Council. ASEE Fellow, Hall of Fame inductee, & NAE Gordon Prize co-recipient. #STEM #EngEducation

Dr. Carol Woodward, LLNL comp. mathematician since 1996, specializes in numerical methods & solvers. FASTMath Director, SUNDIALS lead, SIAM President, SIAM & AWM Fellow. Recognized for exceptional technical achievements. people.llnl.gov/woodward6 #ComputationalMath #SIAM#JCW

March is Women's History Month. Each week during March the Joint Committee on Women in the Mathematical Sciences honors a female in the field of mathematical sciences. #JCW

#JCW honors Foo, a 2008 PhD from Brown, who studies stochastic models of cancer evolution. Distinguished McKnight Prof, Northrop Prof, & Co-Director of UMN’s Therapy Modeling & Design Center. www-users.cse.umn.edu/~jyfoo… #CancerResearch #MathBio

Kavita Ramanan, the Roland G D Richardson University Professor of Applied Mathematics has developed frameworks for analysis in mathematics. Her research has been supported by U.S. government and private foundations. She works to increase inclusivity and communication in math.

JCW honors Sherry Li: Senior Scientist at LBNL. Expert in high-performance computing, sparse matrix computations, and math libraries. Lead developer of SuperLU, 130+ pubs across multiple science domains. PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley. More: crd.lbl.gov/xiaoye-li

Dr. Richelle Blair was President of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (2009-2011) and contributed significantly to AMATYC’s Beyond Crossroads (2006) and Conference Board for the Mathematical Sciences National Surveys of Undergraduate Programs.#JCW

Gabriele Eichfelder: Full Professor at TU Ilmenau, Germany. Expert in Mathematical Optimization, focusing on nonlinear, vector-valued, set-valued functions. Author of 2 Springer books, extensive journal publications. Editorial board member for top journals. #JCW

#JCW honors Talitha Washington who became the 1st African American to graduate with a doctorate in math from UConn. She became co-leader of NSF's 'Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions' Program & 2019 Black Engineer of the Year STEM Innovator.

#JCW honors Jo Nelson’s whose research involves pseudoholomorphic curves & symplectic, contact & complex geometry & Reeb dynamics. In 2020 she & two other professors from Rice received a grant to help better understand how race, racism & racial injustice affect society.

#JCW honors Lakeshia Legette Jones, professor of mathematics at UALR inaugural recipient of Top Hat’s Black Educator Grant, a $10,000 award, is now faculty at Clark Atlanta University. She is a strong proponent of establishing a sense of belonging in students thru active learning

#JCW honors Ruth Charney, President of AMS (2021-23) and AWM (2013-15). Charney received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1977 & is best known for continued contributions to Geometric Group Theory and Artin Groups. She was part of the inaugural class of Fellows of AMS.

The #JCW honors in memoriam Georgia Benkart, leader in Lie theory, representation theory, combinatorics & noncommutative algebra, who worked for 33 years at UW-Madison and during retirement. Her profound impact endures through the networks of researchers she built and supported.

#JCW honors Miriam Kuzbary, Rice U, doing postdoctoral work at Georgia Tech on link concordance & related groups, part of Geometric Topology, Knot & Group Theories. She is a founding mentor of the Atlanta Undergraduate Research Mathematics Seminar.