Award for Mathematics Programs that Make a Difference

This award was established in 2005 in response to a recommendation from the AMS's Committee on the Profession that the AMS compile and publish a series of profiles of programs that:

1. aim to bring more persons from under-represented minority backgrounds into some portion of the pipeline beginning at the undergraduate level and leading to advanced degrees in mathematics and professional success, or retain them once in the pipeline;
2. have achieved documentable success in doing so; and
3. are replicable models.

Two programs are highlighted annually.

For information about the nomination process, please contact Dr. Ellen Maycock, Associate Executive Director, AMS:  ejm@ams.org or 800-321-4267.

Next Award:  2009.  Call for nominations.

Third Award, 2008:  Summer Undergraduate Mathematical Science Research Institute (SUMSRI), Miami University (Ohio) and Mathematics Summer Program in Research and Learning (Math SPIRAL), University of Maryland, College Park.  See citations and descriptions of programs.  See Notices of the AMS article.

Second Award, 2007:  Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE), Bryn Mawr College and Spelman College; and Mathematical Theoretical Biology Institute (MTBI), Arizona State University.  See citations and descriptions of programs.  See Notices of the AMS article.

First Award, 2006:  Summer Institute in Mathematics for Undergraduates (SIMU), Universidad de Puerto Rico, Humacao; and Graduate Program, Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa.  See citations and descriptions of programs.  See Notices of the AMS article.