2025 - 2026
Spring 2026
- Jan 28 AWM/WiCS GitHub Workshop: Part of our Personal and Professional Development Series (collaboration with the Women in Computer Science)
- Feb 05 February GBM: Launched SK Day 2026 and played an (almost) e Day-related word game.
- Feb 23 SK Day Activity Brainstorming
- Mar 05 March GBM: Watched Secrets of the Surface: The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani. (Learn more about this documentary at Zala Films.)
- Mar 23 Math Class Registration Session (collab with ASA, Math Club, and SIAM)
- Apr 02 April GBM: Review of SK Day preparation steps and day-of schedule
- Apr 03 Coffee & Conversation with Dr. Jinyoung Park: AWM hosted coffee, snacks, and conversation with Dr. Jinyoung Park, who was awarded the 2025 Levi L. Conant Prize for her paper “Threshold Phenomena for Random Discrete Structures" (Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 70, 2023). She delivered the 2025 Levi L. Conant Lecture at WPI.
- Apr 11 Sonia Kovalevsky Day
- Apr (multiple days) Women in STEM Mixer: Drop-in event for the spring 2026 Accepted Student Days, featuring WPI's women-focused student groups
Fall 2025
- Aug 21 Student Activities Fair
- Aug 27 AWM Welcome Event
- Sep 04 September GBM: Introduced the chapter, the members, and the classic game SET.
- Sep 17 AWM/SIAM LaTeX Workshop: Part of our Personal and Professional Development Series (collaboration with the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics; resources available on our blog).
- Sep 25 New Faculty Meet-and-Greet: With Profs. Charly Fowler and Jane Coons
- Oct 02 October GBM: Announced upcoming events and volunteer opportunities in October and played a Sudoku-inspired, Tic-Tac-Toe-like game.
- Oct 20 Family STEM Night Prep Session: Designed an informational poster and created sample crafts in preparation for a math biology exhibit at Family STEM Night, an annual event in Worcester. A collaboration of AWM and the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Club.
- Oct 24 Family STEM Night with BCB: A collaborative outreach event with the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Club. Read more about this event on our blog.
- Oct 29 AWM/SIAM Personal Website Workshop: Part of our Personal and Professional Development Series (collaboration with the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics)
- Oct 30 Seminar Series: Graduate Experiences Around the Country: A collaboration with Bryn Mawr College, FSU, Mizzou, and UTK
- Nov 07 November GBM: Announced upcoming events and volunteer opportunities in November.
- Nov 13 Counted Out Documentary Screening (with the STEM Education Center)
- Nov 21 Seminar and Tea with Prof. Fatma Terzioglu: From Conventional CT to Multi-Energy CT: Modeling, Invertibility, and Parameter Design
- Nov 24 Cutie Pies Thanksgiving Bake-Off (collaboration with Women+ in Robotics Engineering)
- Dec 04 December GBM: Social hour to chat about the semester over cocoa and cookies.
AWM Book Club
- Sep 02 Read an excerpt from Fifty Years of Women in Mathematics.
- Sep 16 Read Proof, by David Auburn.
- Sep 30 Read Flatland, by Edwin A. Abbott.
- Oct 21 Read Closing the Gap, by Vicky Neale.
- Nov 11 Continued Closing the Gap, by Vicky Neale and started How to Bake Pi, by Eugenia Cheng.
- Jan 27 Read the short story "What It Means When a Man Fall From the Sky," by Lesley Nneka Arimah.
- Feb 24 Read A Tangled Tale, by Lewis Carroll.
- Mar 24 Read chapters 1 through 5 of The Housekeeper and the Professor, by Yoko Ogawa.