Happy Pi Day! Cheers to black female mathematicians. Today, March 14 (3/14), marks the annual celebration because the date represents the first three digits of the mathematical constant π (pi), ...

So much for the theory that maternity leave and childrearing are responsible for slowing women’s climb up the employment ladder. Despite increasing efforts to mint more female professors in recent ...

WILLIAMSTOWN -- A newly established fellowship at Williams College aims to encourage more women to enter the fields of mathematics and the physical sciences. The Clare Boothe Luce fellowship, which ...

From the beginning, women have made significant contributions to the fields of mathematics and science. But despite the fact that these pioneering women have changed the way we live in and think about ...

Two topics that were recently reported in the national and local media have driven me to revisit the editorial columns I have written about these important matters. The first deals with the major ...

“Solving mathematical problems gave me a unique sensation of freedom that did not depend on what happened around me,” confessed Irina Kmit, a Ukrainian mathematician, now a professor in the ...

"When I accepted this invitation last fall, I didn't know that speaking out as a university president on the subject of under-representation of women would become a form of risk taking that made ...