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A Note from Our Founder
M4S Director of Programming, Justine Henning
It’s been a busy summer at Math4Science, thanks to the work of our team. This includes El Wilson, Director of Social Media and Communications, who has been expanding our presence on apps from Facebook to Tiktok. Follow us also on Instagram, Twitter, Threads, and LinkedIn!
The past directors of our board have appointed the following people to Math4Science’s interim board: Civil Engineer Tysheina Robertson, former Co-Director of Urban Academy High School Becky Walzer (a math teacher), and Dara Henning (an art teacher and my sister). Thank you, Colin Chellman, Eduardo Castell, Erica Heisman, and Brendan Mernin for the years you devoted to the M4S board!
If YOU are interested in joining Math4Science’s board of directors, please contact the chair of our interim board, Tysheina Robertson: TysheinaR@math4science.org.
Byron Chamorro, our In-House Designer, has led Math4Science’s rebranding efforts this summer. Working closely with Dara and myself, Byron created the beautiful new logo. When she first saw his sketch, Dara called it “groovy” and suddenly we had a design that excited us all. Thanks also to the students who helped us select our color scheme. Watch our website for the full re-design.
Perhaps our most exciting news of all is that the two groups of scientists who wrote M4S into their National Science Foundation applications won their grants! We will be visiting schools in the home states of those scientists (Colorado, Texas, and Virginia). M4S@School, now with the thoughtful leadership of Becky Walzer, will help math teachers create exciting encounters for their students with geologists and ecologists including Xi Yang, Lauren Miller Simkins, Lindsay Prothro, and Ryan Venturelli.
Enormous thanks to everyone who helps us launch and expand Math4Science. Together, we are enriching the pipeline from elementary math to vital careers in the sciences, tech, engineering, and mathematics.
Explore Science
Get excited for our profile of Marek Bennett, who majored in mathematics and music and uses both to inform the graphic novels he creates. We will announce its release on social media.
Wondering who had the brilliant idea of inviting Math4Science to implement the “broader impact” section of their NSF grants? Read about Global Change Ecologist XI Yang, and Glacial Geologist Lauren Miller Simkins. Thanks to Yang and Simkins, we are profiling their colleagues, connecting kids in several states with local scientists, and helping teachers show their students the cool careers in ecology and geology that math can help them build!
M4S@School
As the new school year begins, we are meeting with teachers to help them bring scientists to their math classrooms. In addition to schools in Colorado, Texas and Virginia connecting to local scientists (see NSF grant info. above) in NYC there’s a network of high school math teachers who are learning about M4S for the first time and thinking about which scientists complement their curriculum. We will let you know more as their plans unfold!
Explore Math
Geologist Ryan Venturelli, who works at Texas A & M Corpus Christi, and her colleagues published this study at nature.com. They explored a subglacial lake — a body of water found under 1,087 meters of Antarctic ice— by drilling through the ice and pulling up a sediment core (a cylinder of sand and other items found under the lake). The sediment core was 2.06 m long, pulled up from under the lake, which was 15 meters deep. How far below the surface of the ice was the bottom of that sediment core? Challenge: If the base of the sediment core had a diameter of 10 cm, how much sand, clay, silt, etc did Venturelli and the other scientists pull up from bottom of the subglacial lake (what was the volume of the core, in cubic cm? In cubic m?)?
