Alumna Ruthi Hortsch (UM BA ’12, MIT PhD ’17), from BEAM, wrote trying to recruit you! Open Summer Positions at Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics (BEAM) Faculty positions (for teachers, professors, and professionals able to work during the summer) Junior Faculty positions (for graduate students and early career teachers) Counselor/TA positions (for undergraduate students and…
Category: DEI
Tenure Track Openings in South Texas
Cristina Villalobos, Professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) in the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, wrote to me to help recruit you to three tenure track positions at her department. UTRGV is a Hispanic Serving Institution located in the Rio Grande Valley, in the southern tip of Texas close to…
Opportunity to speak at SIAM meeting this summer
Our Marjorie Lee Browne speaker, Dr. Ricardo Cortez, told us today that he is recruiting graduate students and post-docs to be speakers this July at the SIAM Annual meeting, where he is organizing a session in celebration of diversity. Please reach out to him directly by email today or better yet—come meet him after his talk…
Marjorie lee Browne Talk TODAY
Our department has hosted a Marjorie Lee Browne Distinguished Lecture in celebration of Martin Luther King’s birthday each year since 1999. Marjorie Lee Brown was our department’s first, and one the nation’s first, African American women to earn the PhD degree in mathematics in 1949. She was a tremendous influence on generations of students in…
Allies Grants from Rackham
Rackham offers “Faculty Ally” grants up to 12K per year, for the purpose of making departments better for all graduate students, including students from under-represented demographics. A few years ago, PhD student Patricia Klein took the lead on designing a program to fund speaker travel to our seminars. We were able to use this money,…
Interesting and Meaningful Summer Teaching in NYC or LA
“This summer, change the lives of underserved students with exceptional potential in math” Ruthi Hortsch (BS UM, 2012) wrote to recruit Michigan math graduate students, post-docs and faculty to teach math this summer for BEAM (Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics), an enrichment program for underserved urban youth. After Michigan, Ruthi wrote her PhD in number…
Open Preceptor Position at Harvard
Harvard is hiring a Math preceptor (teaching-focused faculty member) with strong mentoring skills, who will also help run their Emerging Scholars program. This is an excellent opportunity for recent or upcoming Michigan Math PhDs interested in an academic career with a focus on teaching and/or DEI issues. The position is for 3-years, and is once…