AMS-AAAS Congressional Fellowship

AMS Announces Congressional Fellow

The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is pleased to announce that Katherine Crowley has been chosen as the AMS Congressional Fellow for 2009-2010.   

Katherine D. Crowley, 
2009-2010 AMS Congressional Fellow

The AMS will sponsor Katherine's fellowship through the Congressional Fellowship program administered by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).  The fellowship is designed to provide a unique public policy learning experience, to demonstrate the value of science-government interaction, and to bring a technical background and external perspective to the decision-making process in Congress.

Fellows spend a year working on the staff of a Member of Congress or a congressional committee, working as a special legislative assistant in legislative and policy areas requiring scientific and technical input.  The fellowship program includes an orientation on congressional and executive branch operations, and a year-long seminar series on issues involving science, technology and public policy.

Katherine Crowley was chosen from among several very competitive applications.  She earned her Ph.D. in Mathematics from Rice University after completing her thesis entitled Discrete Morse Theory and the Geometry of Nonpositively Curved Simplicial Complexes.  She is currently working as an assistant professor of mathematics at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.

 Previous AMS Congressional Fellows:

• 2005-06, David Weinreich, worked in the Office of Rep. Robert Andrews (NJ-1)
• 2006-07, Daniel Ullman, worked for the House Committee on Science & Technology
• 2007-08, Jeffry Phan, worked in the Office of Senator Jeff Bingaman (NM)
• 2008-09, James Rath, working in the Office of Rep. Rubén Hinojosa (TX-15)
  
  
  For more information on the AAAS Congressional Fellowship program, please click here.