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texas a&m university professor emerita of mathematics sue geller has been selected to the 2023 class of association for women in mathematics fellows in recognition of her lifetime dedication to creating more equitable opportunities for women as well as an inclusive supportive environment for all within the mathematical sciences geller is one of 13 nationwide members of the organizations sixth overall class of fellows celebrated friday (jan 6) at the awm reception and awards presentation in conjunction with the 2023 joint mathematics meetings held jan 4-7 in boston each was presented with a certificate geller was nominated for the prestigious honor by sarah j greenwald a professor of mathematics at appalachian state university and a 2020 awm fellow individually and collectively each of the six awm fellows classes is lauded as extraordinary researchers mentors and educators whose commitment to supporting and growing women across the mathematical sciences is praised by their students and colleagues alike according to the awm website i am very happy to announce the 2023 list of new awm fellows said awm president kathryn leonard we recognize these individuals for their exceptional dedication to increasing the success and visibility of women in mathematics
the awm fellows program was established in 2017 by the awm executive committee to recognize individuals who have demonstrated a sustained commitment to the support and advancement of women in the mathematical sciences the fellows epitomize the mission of the awm which is to create a community in which women and girls can thrive in their mathematical endeavors and to promote equitable opportunity and treatment of women and others of marginalized genders and gender identities across the mathematical sciences geller was cited for her extensive and effective support of women in mathematics through research publications teaching outreach and mentoring; for addressing microaggressions via both public awareness and private mentoring; and for her long record of leadership and service related to women in mathematics in professional societies i was amazed at how many people mostly but not all women came up to me [in boston] to tell me how much my mentoring had helped them and to update me on their career geller said a lot of these comments included something akin to or literally i would not be where i am today without your help/advice i feel that not only is my career outside of research validated but also that i am validated as a kind and helpful person i'm still floating geller who holds both a masters and a doctorate from cornell university joined the texas a&m department of mathematics faculty in 1981 as its first female associate professor and also has held a joint appointment in the department of veterinary integrative biosciences for nearly 30 years in addition she served as the longtime director of the honors program in mathematics which she established in 2004 as the first such department-level program across the campus
i convinced then-director ed funkhouser and university honors to add departmental honors and allow all colleges to have honors programs geller said thus math was the first departmental honors program in the university i ran it for 13 years while mentoring many of the undergraduates in the program and lots out of the program since i worked new student conferences every summer from 2004 to 2017 i gained many mentees and advisees through them known to students as dr sue geller has supervised more than 100 master's students and has mentored an uncountable (although finite) number of undergraduates her extensive mentoring career started with students at purdue university as an assistant professor continued at harvard university while on a research professorship and hit its stride at texas a&m where she has mentored both undergraduate and graduate students as well as many faculty members in recognition of her pioneering efforts the mathematics undergraduate research lecture was renamed in 2018 in her honor as the geller undergraduate lecture series which provides an avenue for undergraduates to interact with leading researchers from outside texas a&m who have also demonstrated a deep interest in and capacity for student mentoring as the first and only female full professor in texas a&m mathematics for many years geller has mentored all of the female assistant and associate professors in the department along with many of the lecturers and even those in other departments and colleges across the campus i mentored women and men geller added i mentored all the tenure-track and many of the academic professional track women in the texas a&m math department until i turned the job over to those i had mentored when i was close to retirement i also mentored female faculty across campus through the women's faculty network
beyond a published research record that features material on both abstract algebra and biostatistics gellers legacy includes a transformative effect on both the people and the pedagogical mission of the department of mathematics in addition to founding the honors program she helped put into place a specialized track of the masters degree program in mathematics intended for prospective teachers writing several of the courses as well as an open-source book with fellow texas a&m mathematician harold boas that still is in use today gellers exemplary record of innovative teaching and effective mentoring student and faculty has been recognized with numerous awards including the university honors programs director's award (2012) the texas a&m womens faculty networks outstanding mentoring award (2013) the texas section of the mathematical association of americas ron barnes distinguished service to students award (2014) and the texas a&m association of former students distinguished achievement award for student relations (2015) she is an active member of the mathematical association of america the american mathematical society and the association for women in mathematics where she has served in a variety of officer and committee capacities from career development and employment opportunities to science policy and strategy geller also is a member of the american statistical association and the international society for computational biology and a popular invited speaker on myriad topics including curriculum development communication in mathematics and women and minority mentoring i wrote and co-directed skits that were performed at the joint mathematics meetings from 1990 to 1994 new skits each year geller said they were done to raise awareness of the way women were mistreated often unintentionally we called them microinequities but now they would be called microaggressions i like microinequities better because there isn't the implication of intentional harm every skit was based on a true event when it comes to her takeaways from boston and imparting wisdom gleaned in sum throughout her more than 50-year career in academia geller continues to advise as follows: something that may be a small kindness/helpfulness from you may make a huge difference to the person you help they add up over a long time and can make the world a better place one person at a time kindness/helpfulness given often returns a hundredfold possibly years later people i helped have helped others proving that kindness/helpfulness has a way of multiplying as people pass it on well said and done dr sue
texas a&ms association for women in mathematics chapter housed within the department of mathematics was recognized nationally with the awms 2020 award in community outreach for its outstanding work in reaching out to both external and internal mathematical communities through its sponsorship of and participation in numerous activities from substantial efforts to inspire middle and high school students in pursuing mathematical sciences careers to hosting the 4th annual texas women in mathematics symposium 2020 the chapters efforts to mentor and encourage all students in mathematics have been funded through the years by grants from the national science foundation the mathematical association of america and the summer math foundation
sometimes you must search twice to find your one true passion that was the case for ryan faulkner 23 who began his time at texas a&m university as an engineering student but quickly realized his heart wasnt in it i had been writing my whole life faulkner said not anything publicly just personally i really enjoyed it and decided to give journalism a shot faulkner changed his major to university studies in journalism with a double minor in business and communication angelique gammon* associate professor of the practice in the department of communication and journalism made a lasting impact on faulkner as both a mentor and friend gammon taught his first journalism class and later recommended him for an opportunity to write a sports report on an aggie soccer game for the battalion faulkner said this ignited his passion for writing and encouraged him to pursue it as a career i was the only one in the press box that day but i was so excited faulkner shared after i wrote the story i realized i had a passion for this i couldnt stop grinning faulkner later became the assistant editor for the batt sports desk he said his most notable experiences were the baseball teams 2021 hiring of jim schlossnagle and covering the 2021 texas a&m-university of alabama football game when the aggies claimed a 41-38 upset victory
the classes faulkner took during his time as a student allowed him to use the aggie network and connect with former students visiting alumni presented valuable opportunities for faulkner to develop his skills and gain new experiences i did freelance writing for the bryan-college station eagle mostly covering friday night high school football faulkner said it helped me grow as a writer and expanded my ability to write in multiple formats additionally faulkner wrote public service announcements and provided radio coverage for the brazos valley bombers he said this experience made him realize journalism is more than writing: it exists in many forms including broadcasting faulkner also learned how to juggle a busy schedule his internships were stacked on top of 18 hours of classes each semester and involvement in several campus organizations including fish camp i thrive on being busy and was fulfilled by constantly having something going on faulkner said im a thrill-seeker so the serendipitous lifestyle of journalism is fulfilling for me things change quickly and frequently; its what i enjoy faulkner said his determination allowed him to graduate early in december 2021 with his bachelors degree in university studies giving him plenty of time to plan his next career move by reaching out to aggies at espn in the summer of 2022 faulkner took a 10-week internship with the espn headquarters in bristol connecticut there he connected with interns from universities across the country worked with core leadership in the national basketball association and high-level executives and met on-air talent
i was the only aggie but all of the interns came from similar style schools and it was a giant melting pot of students from across the country faulkner shared not just the sec but also big 10 big 12 and others his time at espn led faulkner to his next challenge: sports law this past fall he began pursuing his jd at the university of texas school of law law school is my current focus faulkner shared after that id love to go back to espn and work in the legal department my plan for now is to focus on my grades get involved in extracurricular activities and since i am in austin home trips to aggieland for football weekends of course moving to longhorn country is something faulkner said has been challenging "i am still trying to accept it faulkner said i definitely still bleed maroon faulkner said he is thankful to have found his one true passion and encourages first-year students to follow suit there is so much you can do faulkner said take this time as a student to explore and find your passion it can be difficult to find success immediately keep going with what feels right *this link is no longer active and has been removed
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computer scientist john mccarthy coined the term artificial intelligence (ai) in 1956 at that time ai research explored problem solving and symbolic methods in the 1960s the department of defense began training computers to mimic human reasoning in 1996 a computer beat the reigning world chess champion garry kasparov and today ai is so widely available that students can use it to write their college term papers and while that might sound great if youre a student texas a&m university scientist andrew dessler advises proceeding with caution when it comes to this paradigm-shifting technology only about once a decade do you see something come along and think this is really going to change the world like the internet or the iphone said dessler a professor in the department of atmospheric sciences i think these chatbots like chatgpt are going to change everything about the world and he means everything today ai is not only used by students to write papers but also accessed to create art recently an ai-generated picture théâtre dopéra spatial won first place in the digital category at the colorado state fair making many artists uncomfortable in the process i think in a few years everyone will have these intelligent assistants that will be answering questions for them and its going to affect the jobs people have because many things we never thought would be automated are going to be automated dessler said the possibility of ai-generated works of art and prose replacing those created by humans is just one potential downside of the new technology generative pre-trained transformer 3 (gpt-3) a state-of-the-art language processing ai model developed by openai can create human-like text the most commonly used access point is the chatgpt a chatbot with 175 billion parameters that can write computer programs poems and even a multiple-paragraph essay about its own implications for higher education this model can probably write better than most undergraduates dessler said its going to affect education what do we need to teach in a world where this technology exists do we need to continue to teach how to write probably but i think theres going to be a lot less pressure on that
another ai model is consensus a search engine that provides users with information on anything from climate change to covid-19 or in many cases misinformation the data you get out of these search engines is only as good as the data its trained on dessler said you could certainly imagine a purveyor of covid misinformation feeding this ai bogus data that then gives that to users for example dessler said he asked consensus is the earth warming to which the search engine blamed the sun for a rise in planetary temperature in its response thats not just wrong it also didnt answer the question i asked he said a lot of people dont understand how it works and thats a problem because people are going to start believing it even if its not right its not thinking; its just predicting the next word as for what this means for higher education dessler is cautiously optimistic so long as education leans in as one possibility dessler suggests having ai write an essay on a specific topic and then getting students to point out what if anything is incorrect or misconstrued the way weve been teaching wont work in the future where this technology exists he said as educational institutions universities need to think about how to adapt to this world dessler also advises that institutions redouble their efforts to emphasize critical thinking skills to students with chatbots like gpt-3 being able to provide seemingly 'correct' answers it is crucial for universities to teach students to separate truth from fiction and evaluate if the chatbots answers are plausible and accurate he said this is kind of an earthquake in education
andrew stuart bren professor of computing and mathematical sciences at the california institute of technology will visit the texas a&m university campus on wednesday feb 1 to present the 2023 re ewing lecture in computational science named for former texas a&m vice president for research dean of science distinguished professor of mathematics and world-renowned scientist dr richard e ewing stuarts lecture the legacy of rudolph kalman: applications algorithms and analysis is set for 4 pm in room 302 of the john r blocker building as well as via zoom it will focus on kalman's 1960 paper believed to be the first to develop a systematic principled approach to the use of data to improve the predictive capability of mathematical models stuart also will detail how this seminal work led to other algorithms such as ensemble kalman filtering as well as methods that have revolutionized applications including navigation weather prediction oceanography oil recovery medical imaging and even machine learning
the re ewing lecture series in computational science was established in 2019 through the texas a&m foundation using funds from the richard e ewing-exxonmobil chair in computational science (currently held by texas a&m mathematicians yalchin efendiev and jean-luc guermond) in combination with contributions from several of ewings friends and colleagues the series is intended to bring eminent speakers to texas a&m on an annual basis to provide opportunities for texas a&m students to learn from leading mathematicians in an area of study ewing helped pioneer ewing who passed away dec 5 2007 at the age of 61 came to texas a&m in 1992 and served as dean of the college of science for eight years prior to being named vice president for research in 2000 he also was the founding director of the texas a&m institute for scientific computation his profound discoveries in the areas of mathematics engineering and computational sciences in tandem with his visionary leadership of the flagship campus broader research enterprise played a central role in texas a&ms emergence as an internationally recognized university of the first rank in science and engineering
a fellow of the royal society (2020) and caltech faculty member since 2016 stuart is interested in how the current era of data acquisition interacts with centuries of human intellectual development of mathematical models that describe the world around us as an applied mathematician in the division of engineering and applied science he generates the mathematical and algorithmic frameworks that allow researchers to integrate mathematical models with data with the goal of making more accurate predictions in a host of diverse geophysical environmental and healthcare-related sectors his work has been recognized with many awards including most recently the 2022 vannevar bush faculty fellowship the us department of defense's most prestigious research grant award originally from london stuart received his undergraduate degree in mathematics from the university of bristol in 1983 and a combined master's/doctorate in computing from the university of oxford in 1986 he held postdoctoral positions at both oxford and mit from 1986 to 1989 as well as prior faculty appointments at the university of bath (1989-1992) stanford university (1992-1999) and the university of warwick (1999-2016) prior to relocating to southern california as bren professor at caltech in the summer of 2016 add your support to the ewing lecture series or find additional information about establishing a memorial gift through the texas a&m foundation
texas a&m university is a community of scholars dedicated to solving diverse real-world problems through determination and innovation texas a&m opened its doors in 1876 as the states first public institution of higher education and is today a tier-one research institution holding the elite triple land- sea- and space-grant designations research conducted at texas a&m represented annual expenditures of more than $1 billion in fiscal year 2021 texas a&ms 74 000 students and more than half a million former students are known for their commitment to service as well as dedication to the universitys core values and rich traditions
experience is widely recognized as one of lifes most effective teachers and organizers of the upcoming 2023 susan m arseven 75 conference for women in science and engineering (wise) guarantee multiple opportunities to learn from some of the best within the stem professions and aggieland next month on the texas a&m campus registration opened today (jan 30) for the popular annual wise conference which is celebrating its 31st anniversary this year and set to be presented saturday feb 25 in room 2400 of the memorial student center this years theme through the looking glass: promoting transparency in stem focuses on exploring open communication and expectations across stem career narratives and uncovering pathways to success in a variety of fields while simultaneously working to ensure more equitable access for all the event will feature a day of common ground conversation and inspiration among friends in a series of interactive presentations featuring speakers who will share their insights gained along the journey from diploma to career and all points in between topics include gaining personal and professional confidence barriers to career achievement data transparency in stem and much more "this conference is an excellent opportunity for undergraduate graduate postdoctoral fellows and faculty in stem to connect and engage in diverse perspectives " said 2022-2023 wise president gayle bornovski '20 a phd candidate in chemistry