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Math in Drag visit entertains and inspires

Our department, along with MIT LGBTQ+ Services and Harvard Undergraduate Queer Advocates, was excited to host a visit by Kyne Santos @onlinekyne, a math educator and drag queen well-known [...]

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Math in Drag event

Math in Drag with Kyne Santos

Description: The Harvard Undergraduate Queer Advocates, students of MIT,  MIT Mathematics, and LBGTQ+ Services are excited to welcome Kyne Santos (@onlinekyne) for her book tour for “Math in Drag.” 

Please RSVP to [...]

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Documentary Film Feb 23

To celebrate Black History Month we organized the projection of the newly released documentary Journey of Black Mathematicians: Forging Resilience by director George Csicsery.

Read more about the documentary at  http://zalafilms.com/jbm/forging.html

The showing [...]

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News

Retaining Students of Color in Grad School

Inside Higher Ed | Pub Jan. 5, 2024

Systematic change must be made to ensure they succeed in academe, writes Robert W. Fernandez, who suggests some specific interventions.

As a formerly undocumented [...]

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Awards and Honors Events

SPUR Teams Share Rogers Prize

2024

SPUR/SPUR+ (Summer Program in Undergraduate Research) culminated with two teams sharing the 2024 Hartley Rogers Jr. Family Prize for the best SPUR paper.

MIT undergraduates presented individual and joint research projects [...]

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The 2023 RSI/SPUR Lecture Series

The RSI/SPUR Lecture Series serves as a platform for distinguished mathematicians to share their expertise, cutting-edge research, and passion for the subject with the next generation of mathematical prodigies.

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