A Center for Women in Mathematics at Smith College

利用这笔拨款，史密斯数学系将启动两个项目，目标是增加攻读数学科学研究生的女性数量。 其中一个将是数学专业的大三课程，来自全国各地学校的数学专业的本科女生将在史密斯学院学习一年，几乎只学习数学。 第二个将是一个数学学士后课程，在这个课程中，获得学士学位但缺乏足够的数学课程的学生将在史密斯大学学习一年的本科和研究生数学。 这两个项目的参与者将获得广泛的指导，将在教师的指导下加入研究小组，并将参加会议。 我们的目标是提高参与者的信心、背景和进入数学科学研究生院的愿望。虽然妇女在许多传统上属于男性的领域取得了进展，但数学领域的进展一直缓慢。 女性在医学院的入学和毕业人数中占多数，但在攻读数学博士学位的学生中仅占32%，在终身数学教师中仅占16%。 在发展的每个阶段，女性都会退出数学领域。 然而，女子学院的记录，特别是史密斯学院，是不同的。 在史密斯，更多的女性主修数学，更多的女性进入研究生院，更多的史密斯毕业生成功获得博士学位。 由于数学在知识生活中的中心地位，这方面的进展对提高妇女的整体地位至关重要。 拥有数学学位的女性可以立即申请生物学、计算机科学、经济学、工程学、管理学和金融学以及数学科学等专业。 该方案旨在通过传播妇女接受数学教育的好处，解决数学领域的性别不平衡问题。 我们的双重目标是男女同校机构中试探性但才华横溢的本科女生和后来认识到自己对数学热爱的女毕业生。 通过培养，激励和教育这些妇女，我们希望在数学研究生院和超越他们的成功率作出重大改变。

With this grant, the mathematics department of Smith will inaugurate two programs both with the goal of increasing the number of women going to graduate school in the mathematical sciences. One will be a junior year program in mathematics, in which undergraduate women mathematics majors from schools across the country will spend a year at Smith taking mathematics almost exclusively. The second will be a post-baccalaureate program in mathematics, in which students who have earned a bachelor's degree but lack sufficient coursework in mathematics will spend a year at Smith studying undergraduate and graduate mathematics. Participants in both programs will receive extensive mentoring, will join research groups under the direction of faculty, and will travel to conferences. We aim to increase participants' confidence, background and desire to go to graduate school in the mathematical sciences.While women advance in many traditionally male areas, progress in mathematics has been slow. Women are a majority entering and graduating from medical school, but comprise only 32% of those studying for Ph.D.s in mathematics and only 16% of tenured mathematics faculty. At every stage in the pipeline, women withdraw from mathematics. The record at women's colleges, however, and at Smith in particular, is different. At Smith, more women major in mathematics, more advance to graduate school and more Smith graduates successfully earn doctorates. Progress here is critical to the advancement of women overall, due to the centrality of mathematics in intellectual life. A woman with a degree in mathematics is immediately a candidate for programs in biology, computer science, economics, engineering, management, and finance, in addition to the mathematical sciences. This program seeks to address the gender imbalance in mathematics by spreading the benefits of a women's education in mathematics. Our twin targets are tentative but talented undergraduate women at coeducational institutions and women graduates who recognized late their love for mathematics. By nurturing, energizing, and educating these women, we hope to make a significant change in their success rate in mathematics graduate schools and beyond.