The Louise Hay Award is a mathematics award planned in 1990 and first issued in 1991 by the Association for Women in Mathematics in recognition of contributions as a math educator. The award was created in honor of Louise Hay. [1]
The following women have been honored with the Hay Award: [2]
Year | Recipient |
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2024 | Trena Wilkerson [3] |
2023 | Nicole M. Joseph |
2022 | Vilma Mesa |
2021 | Lynda Wiest |
2020 | Erika Camacho [4] |
2019 | Jacqueline Dewar [5] |
2018 | Kristin Umland [6] |
2017 | Cathy Kessel [7] |
2016 | Judy L. Walker [8] |
2015 | T. Christine Stevens [9] |
2014 | Sybilla Beckmann [10] |
2013 | Amy Cohen [11] |
2012 | Bonnie Gold [12] |
2011 | Patricia Campbell [13] |
2010 | Phyllis Chinn [14] |
2009 | Deborah Loewenberg Ball [15] |
2008 | Harriet Pollatsek [16] |
2007 | Virginia Warfield [17] [18] |
2006 | Patricia Clark Kenschaft [19] |
2005 | Susanna Epp [20] |
2004 | Bozenna Pasik-Duncan [21] |
2003 | Katherine Puckett Layton |
2002 | Annie Selden |
2001 | Patricia D. Shure |
2000 | Joan Ferrini-Mundy |
1999 | Martha K. Smith |
1998 | Deborah Hughes Hallett |
1997 | Marilyn Burns |
1996 | Glenda Lappan and Judith Roitman |
1995 | Etta Falconer |
1994 | Kaye A. de Ruiz |
1993 | Naomi Fisher |
1992 | Olga Beaver |
1991 | Shirley Frye |
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There is a long history of women in mathematics in the United States. All women mentioned here are American unless otherwise noted.
This is a timeline of women in mathematics.
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