AWM at Cornell

About us

The Cornell Student Chapter was established in 2011 and is supported by Cornell's Department of Mathematics. Our chapter was a recipient of a 2017 Cook Award for our "commitment to women's issues and improving the campus climate for women at Cornell." In 2020, our chapter recieved the AWM Student Chapter Award for professional development. This award recognized our chapter for "the breadth and success of its program to develop students’ professional involvement in mathematics."

The goal of the Cornell Student Chapter of the Association for Women in Mathematics is three-fold:

Increase the number of undergraduate students of minoritized genders enrolled in mathematics courses at Cornell.
Create a network of support for students (undergraduate and graduate) of minoritized genders who are studying math at Cornell.
Provide a forum in which issues pertaining to gender equity in math can be discussed.

Please note: people of all genders are welcome! The title of our group is the Association FOR Women in Mathematics -- and NOT the Association OF Women in Mathematics. As such, any member of the Cornell community who is "for" women and nonbinary persons in mathematics will be welcome at all chapter events.

Current Officers

2023-2024

Portia Anderson

President

Aria Beaupré

Vice President
she/her

Favorite Mathematical Object: the inverse hull of a one sided shift of finite type.

Sara Stephens

Treasurer
she/her

Favorite AWM Events: Mentoring coffee chats and origami.

Riya Agarwal

Outreach

Chris Wang

Outreach
he/him

Favorite Theorem: Wigner semicircle law.

Malli Gutta

Outreach

Charlotte Aspinwall

Outreach

Jennifer Kim

Outreach
she/her

Favorite Mathematical Object: Logarithmic Spiral.

Isaac Goldberg

Outreach
he/him

Favorite AWM Event: Bubble tea.

Sunny Zhang

Mentoring Program
she/her

Favorite Theorem: Serre-Swan theorem.

Nicki Magill

Mentoring Program

Brian Chao

Mentoring Program
he/him

Favorite Mathematical Idea: Brownian Motion.

Nikhil Sahoo

Mentoring Program
he/him

Favorite Mathematical Relationship: The space of unordered pairs of points on a circle is a Möbius band.

Gabi Torres-Nothaft

Social Events and Media

Chloe Chan

Social Events and Media
she/her

Favorite AWM Events: Origami and Boba!

Julia Schanen

Social Events and Media

Prairie Wentworth-Nice

Professional Development
she/her

Favorite AWM Events: Crocheting a hyperbolic plane, Spill the Tea discussions, and the intro to research seminar!

Eric Yang

Professional Development
he/him

Favorite Theorem: Proof for Infinite Primes

Raina Okonogi-Neth

Professional Development
she/her

Favorite Mathematical Object: Cobordisms.

Mark Schachner

Professional Development

Emmy Lewis

Advocacy
she/her

Favorite Mathematical Theorem: Hilbert's Syzygy Theorem.

Ben Thompson

Advocacy

Outreach

Our members organize and participate in outreach events to local students.

Networking

We organize chats with seminar speakers, alumnae, and women in industry. We also host tea-times to give members chances to socialize in an informal setting.

Related Organizations

Our "parent" organization is the Association for Women in Mathematics. We also connect with other on-campus organizations empowering women in STEM.