Innovative Instructional & Public Impact Opportunity Wolverine Pathways seeks math instructors to design and teach innovative in-person courses to high school seniors from July 10, 2023 – August 4, 2023. The goal is to introduce students to how creative, far-reaching and rich the world of math can be. A few examples of topics a class…
Category: Social Justice
BEAM summer opportunities
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…
Opportunity to Serve as tutor for kids in need
The founder of Mastery Hour, a new non-profit project which provides free math tutoring to K-12th grade children via zoom, wrote to me looking for volunteer tutors. They work with Title I schools to provide tutoring in English and Spanish. They need more student volunteers to help meet the needs of the millions of families…
Propose a Workshop on Math and Social Justice
ICERM has opened up a special solicitation for social justice focused workshop proposals in the mathematical sciences. Please share this around! Details.
Special Edition Math T-shirts for Voter Drive
As part of the Turn Up Turnout effort, the Math Department encourages everyone to vote! We are giving away special edition Math t-shirts to everyone who is registered to vote. These are designed by Professor Sarah Koch and Math PhD Alumna Olivia Walch. If you are not eligible to vote, you can still get a t-shirt: just tell three people…
University of Michigan Voter Turnout Drive
Professor Edie Goldenberg (our former dean) wrote to Math specifically for help with getting our students registered to vote in the 2020 Presidential Election, including the March 10 Michigan primary. This is part of President Schlissel’s nonpartisan push on campus this year to increase voter turn-out, a critical component of having a functioning democracy. Did…
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…