Candice Renee Price

Candice Renee Price is an African-American mathematician and assistant professor at the University of San Diego.[1] She, along with Erica Graham, Raegan Higgins, and Shelby Wilson created the website Mathematically Black and Gifted which features the contributions of modern-day black mathematicians.[2] She is an advocate for greater representation of females and people of color in the STEM fields.[3] Price's area of mathematical research is DNA topology,[4] that is, knot theory applied to the structure of DNA.

Education

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

Career and Research

Price was a 2013 MAA Project NExT fellow.[5] She is currently (as of August 2018) an assistant professor at the University of San Diego. She previously held a similar position at West Point (United States Military Academy). [4]

Price is one of the founding organizers of the Underrepresented Students in Topology and Algebra Research Symposium (USTARS) whose inaugural meeting was in 2011. This annual symposium is a multi-day event that features the research of algebra and topology graduate students as well as providing career and professional development opportunities.[6] In 2017, Price is one of four mathematicians that started the website Mathematically Black and Gifted. Coinciding with Black History Month, every day in February they highlight the life and works of modern-day black mathematicians.[2]

References

  1. "Biography - Candice Price, PhD - College of Arts and Sciences - University of San Diego". www.sandiego.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-07.
  2. 1 2 Lamb, Evelyn (February 8, 2018). "Candice Price's Favorite Theorem". Scientific American Blog Network. Retrieved 2018-08-07.
  3. Housego, Dylan. "Professor makes mathematics accessible, inclusive". sandiegouniontribune.com. Retrieved 2018-08-07.
  4. 1 2 3 "DisplayBio.aspx". www.usma.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-07.
  5. "Fellow Search Form | Mathematical Association of America". www.maa.org. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
  6. Price, Candice (April 2017). Communicated by Alexander Diaz-Lopez. "Underrepresented Students in Topology and Algebra Research Symposium (USTARS)" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 64: 383–385.
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