Regional Mathematics and Statistics Conference

Panel 2024

This year, our panel is entitled “You Belong in Mathematics and Statistics”. Join us as our panelists discuss how we can work together to make people from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences feel welcome in mathematics and statistics. Panelists will also take your questions, which you can submit before the panel at the conference.

Panelists

Dr. Ranthony Clark earned a PhD in Mathematics in 2018 from the University of Iowa, held post-doctoral positions at Ohio State University and MSRI, and is currently a National Science Foundation Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Researcher and Phillips Griffiths Assistant Research Professor at Duke University. Her research interests include commutative ring theory, applied algebraic topology, data science, and mathematics education. In 2019 she co-created the first service-learning course in the Department of Mathematics at The Ohio State University entitled, ‘Intersections of Mathematics and Society: Hidden Figures.’ In 2021 she was awarded a Racial Justice Grant as the PI of the project “Hidden Figures Revealed: Dynamic History and Narratives of Black Mathematicians from The Ohio State University,” which is the first comprehensive study of black mathematicians at a single US institution.

Dr Jessie Hamm received her doctorate in mathematics from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2014 and began working at Winthrop University upon graduation. Her mathematical research interests include anti-Ramsey theory, group theory, and graph theory, and she is also involved in research concerning effective teaching and learning. Dr. Hamm has hosted a number of community outreach events including Sonia Kovalevsky Days, math summer camps, math days for local elementary schools, and she also started the Tri-County Math Teachers’ Circle, which is an outreach community for K-12 educators of math.

Dr. Kimberly Weems is an associate professor and the interim chair of the Department of Mathematics and Physics at North Carolina Central University (NCCU). Her primary research interests include flexible statistical models for the analysis of count data. She is active in STEM education and broadening participation initiatives, serving as co-chair of the Infinite Possibilities Conference and principal investigator of a collaborative math pathways project designed to improve outcomes for undergraduate African American men in gateway mathematics courses. Dr. Weems has received a Teaching Excellence Award from NCCU and NC State. In addition, she is the recipient of a Trailblazer Award from the University of Maryland Black Alumni Association.