Our Community
Since 1998, our EDGE community has grown into a beautiful and strong network of mathematicians. Together, we have empowered almost 400 underrepresented mathematicians through our annual Summer Program, the Summer Symposium, the Karen EDGE Fellowship, and the recently inaugurated Mary Beth Ruskai Research Fund.
Whether you are a recent alum in your graduate school journey or an established professional, we want to highlight your achievements! Big and small, we welcome all updates from EDGErs.
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Apply for AMS Fellowships
The AMS is pleased to announce that three research fellowships—the Joan and Joseph Birman Fellowship, the Claytor-Gilmer Fellowship, and the AMS Centennial Fellowship—have increased awards of $75,000 each. In addition, the AMS is offering the Stefan Bergman Fellowship, an award [...]
New Job Opportunity at Mount Holyoke College
The Mount Holyoke College Department of Mathematics and Statistics invites applications for a tenure-track faculty appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin in Fall 2026. Candidates from all fields of mathematics (applied and pure) will be considered. Qualifications [...]
EDGErs’ News
New PhD: Laura Zinnel E21, Iowa State University
Congratulations to Dr. Laura Zinnel E21! Laura successfully defended her dissertation "Deep Learning and Level Set Methods for Traumatic Brain Injury Detection and Outcome Prediction" and earned her PhD in Mathematics and Neuroscience from Iowa State University.
50 Miles for 50 Years: Alejandra Runs for EDGE
On her 50th birthday, Alejandra Alvarado (E02) ran 50 miles to celebrate and to give back to EDGE. Completed in January, the run was both a personal milestone and her act of fundraising. Inspired by the idea of reaching 100,000 steps in a day, which [...]
Heather Harrington E06 Named a 2026 SIAM Fellow
Heather Harrington, a 2006 EDGEr, was named a 2026 SIAM Fellow in recognition for her outstanding contributions to the development of new topological and algebraic methods and their applications to mathematical biology. Heather is currently the director of Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology [...]
New PhD: Kathryn Beck E20, University of Delaware
Congratulations to Kathryn E20! Kathryn successfully defended her dissertation "Signal Processing on Cayley and Nearly Cayley Graphs" and earned her PhD in Mathematics from the University of Delaware. This upcoming Fall, Dr. Beck will join Tufts University as a Norbert Wiener Postdoctoral Fellow. Visit her [...]
New PhD: Sofía Martínez Alberga E19, Purdue University
Congratulations to Dr. Martínez Alberga! ✨ Sofía successfully defended her dissertation "Coalgebraic Models for Equivariant Homotopy Types" and earned her PhD in Mathematics from Purdue University. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stonehill College. We're excited to follow her journey! 💖 Visit her [...]
New PhD: Skylyn Irby E19, The University of Alabama
Congratulations, Dr. Irby! 🥳 Skylyn successfully defended her dissertation "Investigating an Institution's STEM Retention Program Participants' Sense of Belonging in Mathematics" and earned her PhD in Mathematics from The University of Alabama. We're honored to have been part of Skylyn's journey and look forward to [...]