In the News
On this page, we will share articles and news about AWM, our UNC chapter activities, UNC member news and updates, diversity and participation initiatives, and any relevant academic news and research.
July/August 2025
- In August, UNC-CH hosted the Research Collaboration Workshop (formerly, Women) in Science of Data and Mathematics), one of the many AWM Research Networks. The workshop was organized by Harlin Lee (School of Data Science and Society, SDSS) and Yifei Lou (Mathematics, College of Arts and Sciences, and SDSS) of UNC-CH, as well as by Cristina Garcia-Cardona (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Kathryn Leonard (Occidental College), Karolyn Babalola (Booz Allen Hamilton), and Linda Ness (formerly Vencore Labs). Three UNC-CH-AWM-affiliated participants were current faculty advisor Caroline Moosmueller, former UNC-CH-AWM officer Shiying Li (now a faculty member at University of Nebraska at Lincoln), and current President Kaitlyn Hohmeier. All three participated in the project “Optimal Transport in Cell Biology” led by Caroline and Shiying, which studied the application of Gromov-Wasserstein optimal transport to the study of cell networks.
UNC-CH WiSDM Group Photo, August 2025
“Optimal Transport in Cell Biology” Group. Back (from left): Alejandra Castillo, Kaitlyn Hohmeier. Front (from left): Tuyen Tran, Shiying Li, Caroline Moosmueller, Jannatul Chhoa
- At the SIAM Annual Meeting in Montreal from 7/28-8/1/25, Yifei Lou and Caroline Moosmueller from UNC-CH participated in the AWM Career Panel that was hosted at the conference. In addition, Karin Leiderman from UNC-CH organized a mini-symposium on “Mathematical Approaches to Advancing Women’s Health.”
Drs. Yifei Lou (center) and Caroline Moosmueller (second from right) on AWM Career Panel
From left: Karin Leiderman, Caroline Moosmueller, Kelli Hendrickson