Thursday, May 27, 2021
Virtual Event

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Keynote Speaker: "The STEM Career Advice You Probably Didn’t Get"

Talitha M. Washington, Ph.D.

Talitha M. Washington, Ph.D., Director of the Atlanta University Center Data Science Initiative and Professor of Mathematics at Clark Atlanta University.

Talitha M. Washington, Ph.D., is the inaugural Director of the Atlanta University Center Data Science Initiative. This new initiative seeks to provide data-driven solutions to current and emerging societal problems, especially as it pertains to the African American community. Poised to bring new diverse perspectives to data science, Talitha M. Washington, Ph.D., is a Professor of Mathematics at Clark Atlanta University, and is an affiliate faculty at Morehouse College, Morehouse School of Medicine, and Spelman College. Throughout her career as a mathematical scholar, Talitha Washington, Ph.D., educates and stewards students, faculty, and the larger community to impact the grand challenges of our world.

Talitha M. Washington, Ph.D., is a former Program Director at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the Convergence Accelerator. Previously, as a Program Director in the Division of Undergraduate Education, she was instrumental in building and establishing NSF's first Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program which funded $40,000,000 in awards in FY19. Her research interests include the applications of differential equations to problems in biology and engineering, as well as the development of nonstandard finite difference schemes to numerically solve dynamical systems.

She was elected to honor societies Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi, and mathematics honor societies Kappa Mu Epsilon and Pi Mu Epsilon. She is the recipient of the 2019 BEYA STEM Innovator Award, MAA's 2018 Leitzel Lecturer, an ASI Fellow, and featured by NSF as a Woman History Maker. In 2019, she received the distinguished Outstanding Faculty Award from Howard University. In 2020, she received the NSF Director's Award for Superior Accomplishment. Washington was elected to the 2021 Class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society. In 2021, she was selected as a Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics.

Talitha M. Washington, Ph.D., completed her undergraduate studies in mathematics at Spelman College and studied abroad at the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara, Mexico. She earned her master's and doctoral degrees in mathematics from the University of Connecticut. She was a VIGRE Research Associate in the Department of Mathematics at Duke University. She held assistant professorships at The College of New Rochelle and the University of Evansville, an associate professorship at Howard University, and most recently, a full professorship at Clark Atlanta University.

Talitha M. Washington, Ph.D., is an in-demand speaker who enjoys sharing her expertise on applied mathematics as well as STEM diversity to a wide range of audiences. Her work on Elbert Frank Cox, Ph.D., the first Black in the world to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, has been shared on radio and television stations, as well as in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society.

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