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Talitha Washington was born on 1974 in Frankfort, Indiana, U.S., is an American mathematician. Discover Talitha Washington's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 50 years old?
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Washington helped to champion the once-forgotten Evansville mathematician Elbert Frank Cox (1895–1969), from her hometown of Evansville, leading to the November 2006 unveiling of a plaque honoring the longtime Howard professor as the first African-American scholar to earn a doctorate in mathematics.
Talitha Washington (born 1974) is an American mathematician and academic who specializes in applied mathematics and STEM education policy.
After serving in Costa Rica with the American Field Service, she earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Spelman College in 1996.
She then attended the University of Connecticut, earning a Master's degree in 1998 and a Ph.D. in 2001.
Her doctoral thesis was Mathematical Model of Proteins Acting as On/Off Switches, under the supervision of Yung-Sze Choi.
Washington served on the faculty of Duke University from 2001 to 2003, the College of New Rochelle from 2003 to 2005, the University of Evansville from 2005 to 2011, and Howard University, starting in 2011, where she became associate professor of mathematics.
She was recognized by Mathematically Gifted & Black as a Black History Month 2018 Honoree.
Washington became the 26th president of the Association for Women in Mathematics in 2023.
Washington was born in Frankfort, Indiana, and adopted at a young age by RuthAnne and Walter Wangerin.
She was raised in Evansville, Indiana, and attended Benjamin Bosse High School.
She received the 2019 Black Engineer of the Year Awards STEM Innovator Award.
Talitha Washington was named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, Class of 2021.
Her citation read "For contributions to broadening the participation of underrepresented groups, and service to the mathematical profession".
Washington was also named a Fellow of the AWM, Class of 2021, "for her dedication to raise awareness of African American women in STEM; for her lifelong promotion of Historically Black Colleges and Universities; and for her unwavering dedication to the National Association of Mathematicians."
On February 1, 2022 she became president-elect of the AWM.
She was elected to the 2022 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
After a few years on leave as a program director at the National Science Foundation, in 2020 she became the inaugural director of the Atlanta University Center Consortium (AUCC) Data Science Initiative.
In 2022 she became president-elect of the Association for Women in Mathematics and assumes the presidency on February 1, 2023.
Washington's research interests include nonstandard finite difference (NSFD) schemes for certain systems of differential equations, including population models, one-dimensional systems, and the Black–Scholes equation.
Washington is active in education policy, especially best practices on achieving racial and ethnic diversity in STEM.
At the NSF, she has served as co-Lead of the Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program and is a graduate of the STEM diversity organization SACNAS.
She serves on the Council of the American Mathematical Society and served on the Executive Committee of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM).
