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), ...

The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is a non-profit organization founded in 1971 that seeks to create a community in which women and girls can thrive in their mathematical endeavors, and to ...

A global photography exhibition reveals the hidden stories of women mathematicians and physicists battling bias, caregiving ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gloria Ford Gilmer ― a former Milwaukee teacher, international researcher and leader in the field of ethnomathematics ― has become ...

Our third panel is a round-table discussion on the barriers to recruiting, retaining, and advancing women, with Professors Howard Georgi, Karen Uhlenbeck, and Mildred Dresselhaus. Dr. Howard Georgi is ...

Chemistry has a long history ultimately dating back to alchemy, although there have not been as many female chemists in history as female mathematicians. Maria Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934) and her ...

Barnard mathematics professor Dusa McDuff received the 2025 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the American Mathematical Society in January. The prize is awarded for outstanding ...

A group of Black women, crucial to NASA’s achievements during the space race and famously known as the “Hidden Figures,” were honored with a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony on Capitol Hill. These ...

Many Americans are familiar with the astronaut heroes of the 20th century space race — names like Gus Grissom and Neil Armstrong. But who did the calculations that would successfully land these men on ...

A group of women mathematicians uncovered Soviet spies– but received none of the credit. In the 1940’s, the US government had a mission: find Soviet spies that had infiltrated their nuclear program.

They are known for their work in the Manhattan Project and other military programs or in hives of space-race activity such as NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia. But some of the thousands of ...