The AWM Chapter at UNC-Chapel Hill organizes outreach, mentoring, and social events for students and the larger Triangle community. We will also provide links to non-AWM opportunities within the UNC community that serve participation and community-building initiatives.

Spring 2026 Events

Meet the Speaker Lunches: Katy Craig 2/17, 12 PM; Francesca Bernardi 3/5, 12 PM.

Social Events: Pi Day (Joint with undergrad chapter) 3/9, 4:30 PM, PH 330.

Talks & Programming: Faculty Lightning Talks 4/21 4 PM, PH 332.

AWM Speaker Series: 4/20, 4 PM. Details to be announced.

Meet the Speaker

Our most popular organizational events are our “Meet the Speaker” lunch and coffee events. These events provide UNC graduate students and faculty an informal opportunity to meet and converse with department seminar and colloquium speakers from diverse backgrounds, with the goal to increase graduate student interest in AWM activities and department seminars.

AWM Speaker Series

Through our AWM Speaker Series, we host seminar talks that are accessible to graduate students and showcase the research interests and accomplishments of diverse faculty.

Dr. Di Fang of Duke University presenting for our AWM Speaker Series, April 2024.

Professional Development

Our professional development activities are designed to support the graduate students in our department with career information and advice and connect students with faculty with similar research interests.

Social Programming

Our social programming consists of joint events with the undergraduate AWM chapter as well as joint events with other diversity-oriented STEM graduate student organizations.

Mentor Network

Through AWM, you have the opportunity to participate in their Mentor Network and the Mentorship Program hosted jointly by the undergraduate and graduate UNC AWM chapters. Through the national Mentor Network, you can join either as a mentor or mentee. More details on this program are available here. In the local Mentorship Program, undergraduate student mentees are paired with graduate student mentors. The specifics of the individual mentoring relationships are decided by the mentor and mentee. Many pairs meet once or twice a semester for coffee and/or lunch and communicate through text or email more regularly. Undergraduate mentees can also participate in reading groups or other research activities with their mentors. Past undergraduate participants have said the Mentoring Network was especially helpful for navigating course decisions and feeling more connected to the Mathematics Department.

National AWM Opportunities

AWM Research Symposium: A research conference hosted by AWM, most recently held in May 2025. This conference is an excellent research and networking opportunity for mathematicians from a wide range of fields in both pure and applied mathematics, offering research talks, poster presentations, panel discussions, special sessions, and more. (Our chapter’s current Vice President, Kaitlyn Hohmeier, presented a poster at the May 2025 Research Symposium.) The next conference is scheduled for 2027.

AWM at JMM: AWM regularly hosts several events at the Joint Mathematics Meeting. For 2026, one of these events includes a graduate student poster session, with the opportunity to win a prize for the best poster. Applications for this poster session are due August 15, 2025.

Translating EvenQuads Biographies: AWM is the creator of a card game known as EvenQuads, which provides education about and celebrates female mathematicians throughout history in a fun, engaging format. While the cards are currently available in English, AWM is seeking volunteers to assist with Spanish translations of the card decks. This is a great opportunity to help expand mathematics education and diversity efforts to a broader, non-English-speaking audience.

AWM Awards: The national AWM awards offers multiple awards for individuals at various educational and professional levels.

Girls Talk Math (not affiliated with AWM)

Girls Talk Math is a two-week-long summer day camp for high schoolers in the Triangle area who are interested in math. All high school students are welcome to apply, and all graduate students are welcome to apply to this program as a mentor. See website for details.

The camp most recently ran in July 2025, and the organizers hope to run it again in summer 2026!

Katrina Morgan gave a talk on the camp’s inquiry-based learning curriculum at the 2018 Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego. You can view the slides here.

Francesca Bernardi and Katrina Morgan presented a poster on the program at the 2018 Joint Mathematics Meeting in San Diego. You can view the poster here.