14th WiMSoCal symposium gives platform to women and gender nonconforming people in math

On Feb. 24, Pomona College hosted the 14th Symposium for Women and Gender Minorities in Mathematics in Southern California (WiMSoCal).

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Edray Goins on being a Black mathematician, building community and confronting racism in academia

In 2017, Edray Goins, then a tenured professor of mathematics at Purdue University, wrote in a widely circulated blog post: “I hate working at research universities.”  He was tired of his colleagues viewing teaching as a punishment. And he was done being the “only one” — the only Black mathematician

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