The University of Iowa Department of Mathematics has received a 3-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) program. The grant will allow the department to offer four fellowships per year in 2015-2018.
Department of Mathematics Chair and Professor Dan Anderson, who wrote and serves as PI on the grant, said the department will use the fellowships to help recruit students from backgrounds that are underrepresented in mathematics. Colleen Mitchell, associate professor and chair of the department’s Committee on Diversity and Inclusion, will administer the GAANN grants.
The Department of Mathematics was also instrumental in securing UI’s designation as a UI’s University Centers of Exemplary Mentoring (UCEM) designation. The UCEM grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is awarded to universities with proven records of educating underrepresented minority graduate students in STEM fields.