Math Alliance Celebrates 25-year Anniversary!

University of Iowa Mathematics celebrates 25-year anniversary of a program that significantly increased doctoral degrees for underrepresented students nationally

The UI Department of Mathematics helped launch the Math Alliance, which has had an incredible impact expanding access to doctorate degrees to people of color across the country, including 50 minority graduates from Iowa.

A program created to recruit underrepresented minority (URM) students into Iowa’s graduate program in mathematics has spread to 40 different institutions across the country.  

The Math Alliance began at the University of Iowa with a GAANN grant from the Iowa Department of Education in 1995, when the department had no URM doctoral students. Since then, at least 50 URM students and counting have earned their PhDs at Iowa.  

The four HBCU’s involved in the creation of the initiative were Alabama A&M University, Benedict College of South Carolina, Florida A&M University, and Jackson State University. 

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Article written by: Charlotte Brookins