229-333-2157 April 22, 2009
09-077
Communications Specialist
VSU Reaches High School Girls During Annual SK Day
VALDOSTA - Valdosta State University Department of Mathematics
and Computer Science will host the fourteenth annual Sonya
Kovalevsky High School Mathematics Day from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on
Thursday, April 23, in Powell Hall.
The event encourages high school teachers and sophomore and junior
female students to consider mathematics as an appropriate career
field for women while assisting students with the difficult
transition from high school to college math. The day will include
hands-on activities, workshops, lectures and a math contest for
students.
Dr. Denise Taunton Reid and Mrs. Pat Bezona of the Math and
Computer Science Department are co-hosting this event in honor of
Sonya Kovalevsky, a Russian mathematician who made important
contributions to calculus and became the first women to earn a
doctorate in mathematics.
Call Denise Reid at (229) 333-5784 or visit http://www.valdosta.edu/mathcs/events/SKDays.shtml
for more information about the event.
