Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Kudos to the American Mathematical Association

Hats off to the American Mathematical Association for creating a poster entitled, "Women Doing Mathematics". It highlights the accomplishments of nine women and has a personal quote from each about their interest in Math.

Print it out and put it up in your department, the library, the mall, your kid's school, etc. This is a great poster to have in circulation. If I was a young woman considering a career in STEM a poster like this would have far more reach than Computer Engineer Barbie.

7 comments:

  1. What, no "girly" angle? Nothing about them also being cheerleading moms who love to cook and shop. It's just a list of women who do math.

    That is crazy.

    /sarcasm

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  2. Heh. Actually, I was going to state how happy I was they didn't mention babies at all, but since this was primarily a kudos post I decided to leave it out.

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  3. This looks awesome! I would like to see where they work though. University people are easily googlable, national lab and industry people not so much...

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  4. That is really great! What a good idea.

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  5. This is great! But I think they should have had representations of both industry AND academia instead of just academia.

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  6. @GMP: Web link on the bottom: http://www.ams.org/women-mathematicians :), though it would be nice to have this on the printed posters too. (But the link does work from the pdf file).

    @Tara: Agreed - that would be nice!

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  7. Yeah, I kinda fired off that comment too soon (opened pdf, skimmed over bios, wrote the comment, noticed link, had a facepalm moment). Oh well. :)

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