November 19, 2019 A new study found that boys and girls tend to start life with similar math abilities. Starting off, boys and girls tend to process math in similar ways. The researchers suggest that negative stereotypes and other socio-cultural factors may also be steering girls and young women away from math and related fields. […]
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Nike Sun Receives NSF CAREER Award
November 8, 2019
Associate Professor Nike Sun has been honored with an award through the Faculty Early Career Development Program for her project “Phase Transitions in Randomized Combinatorial Search and Optimization Problems.” This is a continuing grant from June 2019 to August 2023. Her project centers on constraint satisfaction problems (CSPS) — archetypal examples of combinatorial search/ optimization […]
Speakers discuss their post-math career trajectories
September 17, 2019
On Sept. 16, 2019, Prof. Gigliola Staffilani hosted “From Here to Where? Conversations with 4 successful math majors who have achieved 4 very different goals in their careers.” Three of the speakers were Teal Guidici, a Machine Intelligence Scientist at Draper who applies statistical techniques and machine learning algorithms to applications, such as using neural […]
Teaching + Learning Lab Speaker Series: How increasing equity in the science classroom drives social change
September 9, 2019
Sep 11 (W) | 2:00 – 3:00 pm | 6-104 (The Chipman Room) Dr. Cissy Ballen (Auburn University) will address how certain features ofthe introductory science classroom create barriers for historically underserved students. This explanation for observed performance disparities, the “course deficitmodel”, considers the negative impact of environmental conditions on student learning and participation. Dr. Ballen will demonstrate how […]
WiSDM to promote visibility of women in STEM
June 12, 2019
Ritu Raman, a postdoctoral fellow at the Koch Institute, is working on an initiative to promote women in STEM, The Women in STEM Database at MIT (WiSDM) is an initiative designed to promote the visibility of women in our academic community. The goal of WiSDM is to provide a curated searchable online database of MIT women, making it easier to […]
Prof. Nike Sun Speaks at SDSC Conference
May 23, 2019
Prof. Nike Sun “described progress toward a solution in a theoretical geometric problem in classic probability called the Ising perceptron” at the third annual MIT Statistics and Data Science Center conference, which gathered a growing interdisciplinary community of researchers and practitioners. Read more at MIT News.