Announced November 2020 - "Washington Becomes the First Person Named as a Fellow at Both the American Mathematical Society and the Association for Women in Mathematics in the same year"
Dr. Talitha Washington was elected to the 2021 Class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society for "contributions to broadening the participation of underrepresented groups, and service to the mathematical profession."
In 2021, she was selected as a Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics for "her dedication to raise awareness of African American women in STEM; for her lifelong promotion of Historically Black Colleges and Universities; and for her unwavering dedication to the National Association of Mathematicians."
Dr. Talitha Washington was elected to the 2021 Class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society for "contributions to broadening the participation of underrepresented groups, and service to the mathematical profession."
In 2021, she was selected as a Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics for "her dedication to raise awareness of African American women in STEM; for her lifelong promotion of Historically Black Colleges and Universities; and for her unwavering dedication to the National Association of Mathematicians."
As a mathematical scholar, Dr. Talitha Washington educates and stewards students, faculty, and the larger community to impact the grand challenges of our world.
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Dr. Washington 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, Dr. Washington is a Professor of Mathematics at Clark Atlanta University, and is an affiliate faculty at Morehouse College, Morehouse School of Medicine, and Spelman College.
Dr. Washington 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. Dr. Washington 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. Dr. Washington 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 Dr. Elbert Frank Cox, the first Black in the world to earn a PhD in mathematics, has been shared on radio and television stations, as well as in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society. Click for high resolution photos. |
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speaking engagements
May 5, 2021, Keynote, "How HBCUs are Designing Data Science Pathways," Designing Mathematics Pathways for Equity, Charles A. Dana Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Virtual
May 27, 2021, Keynote, North Carolina Women of Color Research Network (NC WoCRN), Virtual
August 4-7, 2021, Speaker, "The Mathematical Story of a "Hidden Figure, Katherine Johnson (August 6, 1918 - February 24, 2020)," MAA MathFest, Virtual
October 7-9, 2021, Keynote, Women in Statistics and Data Science (WSDS) Conference, Pittsburgh, PA
May 27, 2021, Keynote, North Carolina Women of Color Research Network (NC WoCRN), Virtual
August 4-7, 2021, Speaker, "The Mathematical Story of a "Hidden Figure, Katherine Johnson (August 6, 1918 - February 24, 2020)," MAA MathFest, Virtual
October 7-9, 2021, Keynote, Women in Statistics and Data Science (WSDS) Conference, Pittsburgh, PA