Candice Renee Price

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Candice Renee Price
Born
California
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater University of Iowa
Known forDNA Topology
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Institutions Smith College
Doctoral advisor Isabel Darcy

Candice Renee Price is an African-American mathematician and co-founder of the website Mathematically Gifted & Black, which features the contributions of modern-day black mathematicians [1] . She is an advocate for women and people of color in STEM. [2]

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Research

Price's area of mathematical research is DNA topology. [3]

Career

Price obtained a bachelor's degree in Mathematics from California State University, Chico in 2003, and a master's degree from San Francisco State University in 2007. [3] She earned her doctoral degree in Mathematics from the University of Iowa in 2012, under the advisement of Isabel Darcy. [4]

She is currently an Associate Professor at Smith College. [3] She was previously an Assistant Professor at the University of San Diego [5] and at West Point (United States Military Academy). [6]

Price is one of the founding organizers of the Underrepresented Students in Topology and Algebra Research Symposium (USTARS), an annual multi-day symposium started in 2011 that features the research of algebra and topology graduate students, as well as providing career and professional development opportunities. [7]

In 2017, Price, along with Erica Graham, Raegan Higgins, and Shelby Wilson, started the website Mathematically Gifted & Black, which, coinciding with Black History Month, highlights the life and works of a modern-day Black mathematician every day in February. [1]

Awards and honors

Price was a 2013 MAA Project NExT fellow [8] . For her work on Mathematically Gifted & Black, she was awarded the 2022 Presidential Recognition Award [9] of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) .

She co-delivered an invited plenary address at the 2021 National Math Festival. [10] She delivered a Mathematical Association of America (MAA) invited lecture at MathFest 2021. [11]

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