Center Board Member Gerunda Hughes Honored for Achievement in Math Education
Dr. Gerunda Hughes, a longtime mathematics educator and a member of the Center’s board of trustees, has been named the winner of the Louise Hay Award for Contributions to Mathematics Education. The Association for Women in Mathematics, which confers the annual award, announced the news this week.
Dr. Hughes, professor emerita at Howard University, joins an illustrious list of math educators who have won the Louise Hay Award since 1991. AWM will present her with the award at its Joint Mathematics Meetings in January in Washington D.C.
“We are delighted that Gerunda has been honored in this way,” said Center Executive Director Chris Domaleski. “Our board has been enriched beyond words not only by Gerunda’s knowledge of math education and assessment, but by her wisdom and warmth.”
While Louise Hay was widely recognized for her contributions to mathematical logic and for her strong leadership as Head of the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, but her devotion to students and her lifelong commitment to nurturing the talent of young women and men secure her reputation as a consummate educator.
To learn more about Louise Hay, you can read an autobiographical article she wrote that was published in the AWM Newsletter.
The executive committee of the Association for Women in Mathematics established the Louise Hay Award for Contributions to Mathematics Education to recognize outstanding achievements in any area of mathematics education, to be interpreted in the broadest possible sense. The annual presentation of this award is intended to highlight the importance of mathematics education and to evoke the memory of all that Hay exemplified as a teacher, scholar, administrator, and human being.
For more details on Gerunda’s award, including the citation and her response, see AWM’s website.
Center for Assessment contact: Catherine Gewertz, editorial director, cgewertz@nciea.org