December 2024 Mark Saul India commands the attention of the visitor as no other place I’ve been.  Every stroll, every taxi ride, every meal brings new sensations: colors, tastes, sounds, aromas…  One friend described her initial visit as ‘sensory overload’. Dust.  Dust on the yellow-and-black motorized rickshaws putting along pastRead More →

November 2024 Benjamin Braun, Director of Graduate Studies, University of Kentucky, benjamin.braun@uky.edu For many mathematicians working in Master’s and Doctoral-granting departments, training and mentoring regarding graduate advising is done in ad hoc and informal ways. As a result, many new advisors work in some degree of isolation as they developRead More →

October 2024 Anisah Nu’man, Spelman College Naiomi Cameron, Spelman College Anne Marie Marshall, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Nikira Walter, Spelman College Kyndal Witherspoon, Spelman College “With the standard-based grading, this course helped me grow academically by keeping me tenacious. At the beginning of this course, I was getting extremely frustrated;Read More →

This interview, with a graduate student in Ukraine, was conducted by Mark Saul on 17 February 2024.  It speaks for itself. Questions: Let’s start with you.  Where did you grow up?  Go to School? I have always lived in Kyiv.  I found my love for mathematics early, and went to aRead More →

July 2024 Leslie Myint (Macalester College) “How are you?” This is always a challenging question to ask at the end of the semester because invariably, the answer is one that conveys immense fatigue. Students list the papers, projects, and exams remaining. Teachers list the assignments left to grade, and classRead More →

July 1, 2024 Cathy Kessel Back in the 1990s, there was a lot of enthusiasm about discrete mathematics. Its applications were growing. During the past 30 years, discrete mathematics has grown rapidly and has become a significant area of mathematics. Increasingly, discrete mathematics is the mathematics that is used byRead More →

June 2024 Ted Coe and Catherine A. Roberts Catherine:  After seven years as the executive director at the American Mathematical Society and a short stint at the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications, I am now getting back into collegiate teaching. As an applied mathematician keenly interested in mathematics education,Read More →

May 2024 Candice Price (Smith College) and Miloš Savić (University of Oklahoma) Authors of “Radical Grace: Essays and Conversations on Teaching” Radical: far reaching or thorough. Grace: courteous goodwill. Our tenets of “radical grace” are that 1. Everyone deserves grace and 2. Grace looks different for everyone. One way thisRead More →

February 2024 Sarah Wolff (Denison University) Almost exactly a year ago, I flew to Kimberley, South Africa as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar. I spent about six months working at a local university in the mornings and a STEM nonprofit in the afternoons. This was a remarkable, challenging, and deeply thought-provokingRead More →