EQUITY: UNARTICULATED ASSUMPTIONS – Cortez
Raising the floor: Progress and setbacks in the struggle for quality mathematics education for all
May 08, 2006 01:30 PM to 03:00 PM
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Biography:
Ricardo Cortez was born on the east side of Manhattan but lived in San Salvador, El
Salvador from the age of 4 until the age of 18. Dr. Cortez returned to the United States
and received bachelors degrees in mathematics and mechanical engineering from
Arizona State University. Dr. Cortez received a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the
University of California at Berkeley. After a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at the
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, he moved to New
Orleans in 1998, where he is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. His research
areas are computational fluid dynamics and applications to biology. Dr. Cortez has been
a member of SACNAS for 16 years and has been involved in summer research programs
for minority undergraduates since 1991. |
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One major challenge to equity and quality in learning mathematics is access to
programs, workshops, and other activities that supplement a student's learning
experience at their local school. I will present efforts over the past decades whose goals
are to provide research opportunities to undergraduate students outside their home
institutions, to introduce them to a network of mentors and advisors, and to promote
graduate education among minorities. |
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