I may have stumbled into graduate school not quite understanding how things worked; I might have
chosen a research
field without knowing what really interests me; I may not have understood until too late
in the game the importance of advisors and
mentors, or how much of a psychological battle I was
in for.
Ami Radunskaya — a professor of mathematics at Pomona College, president - elect of the Association for Women
in Mathematics, and director of the national Enhancing Diversity
in Graduate Education (EDGE) Program — was
chosen as the winner of the 2016 AAAS
Mentor Award for launching «dramatic education and research changes leading to an increase
in the number of female doctorates
in the
field of mathematics.»