Candice Renee Price

Candice Renee Price
Born
California
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Iowa
Known forDNA Topology
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsSmith College
Doctoral advisorIsabel Darcy

Candice Renee Price is an African-American mathematician and co-founder of the website Mathematically Gifted & Black, which features the contributions of modern-day black mathematicians.[1] She is an advocate for women and people of color in STEM.[2]

Research

Price's area of mathematical research is DNA topology.[3]

Career

Price obtained a bachelor's degree in Mathematics from California State University, Chico in 2003, and a master's degree from San Francisco State University in 2007.[3] She earned her doctoral degree in Mathematics from the University of Iowa in 2012, under the advisement of Isabel Darcy.[4]

She is currently an Associate Professor at Smith College.[3] She was previously an Assistant Professor at the University of San Diego[5] and at West Point (United States Military Academy).[6]

Price is one of the founding organizers of the Underrepresented Students in Topology and Algebra Research Symposium (USTARS), an annual multi-day symposium started in 2011 that features the research of algebra and topology graduate students, as well as providing career and professional development opportunities.[7]

In 2017, Price, along with Erica Graham, Raegan Higgins, and Shelby Wilson, started the website Mathematically Gifted & Black, which, coinciding with Black History Month, highlights the life and works of a modern-day Black mathematician every day in February.[1]

Awards and honors

Price was a 2013 MAA Project NExT fellow.[8] For her work on Mathematically Gifted & Black, she was awarded the 2022 Presidential Recognition Award[9] of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM). She was a 2024 recipient of the Deborah and Franklin Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics.[10]

She co-delivered an invited plenary address at the 2021 National Math Festival.[11] She delivered a Mathematical Association of America (MAA) invited lecture at MathFest 2021.[12]

References

  1. ^ a b Lamb, Evelyn (February 8, 2018). "Candice Price's Favorite Theorem". Scientific American Blog Network. Retrieved 2018-08-07.
  2. ^ Housego, Dylan. "Professor makes mathematics accessible, inclusive". sandiegouniontribune.com. Retrieved 2018-08-07.
  3. ^ a b c "Biography - Candice Price - Smith College". www.smith.edu. Retrieved 2020-01-17.
  4. ^ Candice Renee Price at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Edit this at Wikidata
  5. ^ "Beyond the Classroom Introduces New Professors Candice Price, Cory Gooding - University of San Diego". www.sandiego.edu. Retrieved 2024-04-05.
  6. ^ "Dr. Candice Price". West Point Department of Mathematical Sciences. Archived from the original on August 29, 2018. Retrieved 2018-08-07.
  7. ^ Price, Candice (April 2017). "Underrepresented Students in Topology and Algebra Research Symposium (USTARS)" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 64 (4). Communicated by Alexander Diaz-Lopez: 383–385. doi:10.1090/noti1504.
  8. ^ "Fellow Search Form | Mathematical Association of America". www.maa.org. Archived from the original on 2020-03-22. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
  9. ^ "2022 Presidential Recognition Award" (PDF). Association for Women in Mathematics. August 10, 2022. Retrieved January 4, 2022.
  10. ^ "MAA Honors the Three Recipients of the Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Awards" (PDF). Mathematical Association of America. May 23, 2024. Retrieved 2024-05-29.
  11. ^ "2021 Festival Online". National Math Festival. 2020-11-18. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
  12. ^ "Invited Addresses | Mathematical Association of America". www.maa.org. Retrieved 2021-06-04.