The National Math Festival, organized by MSRI and held every two years, will be at the Washington, DC, convention center on Saturday, May 4, 2019.

AMATYC announces the Mathematics Summit: For Math in the First Two Years on Tuesday and Wednesday, November 12–13, just before the annual meeting in Orlando.

AMS will be holding their workshop for department chairs on January 15, the Tuesday before the Joint Math Meetings in Baltimore.

CBMS has been awarded a five-year grant from the National Science Foundation, #1804259, to fund the infrastructure that will support the CBMS/NSF Regional Conference Series through 2023.

In light of the recent United States Supreme Court decision to uphold the current administration’s travel ban, the Association for Women in Mathematics reaffirms its commitment to supporting our colleagues across the world.

CBMS is pleased to announce that it has received a grant of $47,000 from the Teagle Foundation in support of the Forum, “High School to College Mathematics Pathways: Preparing Students for the Future,” to be held at the Hyatt Regency in Reston, VA, May 5–7, 2019.

The CBMS Council met at the ASA Headquarters on Friday, May 4, 2018.

The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and Cornell University are pleased to announce that Julie Bergner, University of Virginia, will receive the 2018–2019 Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize. Click here for more information.

The Benjamin Banneker Association seeks proposals and reviewers for its upcoming publication of “The Lighthouse Almanac.” The focus of the publication is social justice in mathematics. The Call for Proposals and Call for Reviewers are below. 2018 Call for Proposals Call for Reviewers

The U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) reported that 52% of students who enter college intending to major in mathematics switch to another major. That needs to be balanced with the fact that many more students switch into a mathematics major. In fact, over the past couple decades, the number of...