By Danny Flannery Dr. Talitha Washington shared her journey as a mathematician, from growing up in Evansville, Indiana, to her current position as executive director of Howard University’s Center for Applied Data Science and Analytics, the SeanMcCleese Endowed Chair, and Professor of Mathematics, and noted a strange conversation while attending graduate school at the University of Connecticut. “After I got there, people asked, ‘What country are you from?’ And I thought ‘what’s happening here?’” she said. “I said Indiana. … I finally found out that I was the first [Black American] to enter their Ph.D. mathematics program and subsequently the first to
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