Candice Renee Price
{{short description|American mathematician}}
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| fields = Mathematics
| workplaces = Smith College
| alma_mater = University of Iowa
| doctoral_advisor = Isabel Darcy
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Candice Renee Price is an African-American mathematician and co-founder of the website Mathematically Gifted & Black, which features the contributions of modern-day black mathematicians.{{Cite news |last=Lamb |first=Evelyn |date=February 8, 2018 |title=Candice Price's Favorite Theorem |url=https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/candice-prices-favorite-theorem/ |access-date=2018-08-07 |work=Scientific American Blog Network |language=en}} She is an advocate for women and people of color in STEM.{{Cite news|url=http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/journalismscholars/sd-news-journalism-scholars-stem-candice-price-usd-20180719-story.html#|title=Professor makes mathematics accessible, inclusive|last=Housego|first=Dylan|work=sandiegouniontribune.com|access-date=2018-08-07|language=en-US}}
Research
Career
Price obtained a bachelor's degree in mathematics from California State University, Chico in 2003, and a master's degree from San Francisco State University in 2007. She earned her doctoral degree in mathematics from the University of Iowa in 2012, under the advisement of Isabel Darcy.{{mathgenealogy}}
She is currently an associate professor at Smith College. She was previously an assistant professor at the University of San Diego{{Cite web |title=Beyond the Classroom Introduces New Professors Candice Price, Cory Gooding - University of San Diego |url=https://www.sandiego.edu/news/detail.php?_focus=58782 |access-date=2024-04-05 |website=www.sandiego.edu}} and at West Point (United States Military Academy).{{Cite web|url=https://www.usma.edu/math/_layouts/wpFacultyBios/DisplayBio.aspx?ID=229426fc-d0dd-405c-8d6e-7913cd53d3c4&List=1ebd54dc-d44d-4834-8add-2da90afb21f5|title=Dr. Candice Price|publisher=West Point Department of Mathematical Sciences|language=en-us|access-date=2018-08-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180829000136/https://www.usma.edu/math/_layouts/wpFacultyBios/DisplayBio.aspx?ID=229426fc-d0dd-405c-8d6e-7913cd53d3c4&List=1ebd54dc-d44d-4834-8add-2da90afb21f5|archive-date=August 29, 2018}}
Price is one of the founding organizers of the Underrepresented Students in Topology and Algebra Research Symposium (USTARS), an annual multi-day symposium started in 2011 that features the research of algebra and topology graduate students, as well as providing career and professional development opportunities.{{Cite journal |last=Price |first=Candice |date=April 2017 |others=Communicated by Alexander Diaz-Lopez |title=Underrepresented Students in Topology and Algebra Research Symposium (USTARS) |url=https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/201704/rnoti-p383.pdf |journal=Notices of the AMS |volume=64 |issue=4 |pages=383–385 |doi=10.1090/noti1504 |doi-access=free}}
In 2017, Price, along with Erica Graham, Raegan Higgins, and Shelby Wilson, started the website Mathematically Gifted & Black, which, coinciding with Black History Month, highlights the life and works of a modern-day Black mathematician every day in February.
Awards and honors
Price was a 2013 MAA Project NExT fellow.{{Cite web |title=Fellow Search Form {{!}} Mathematical Association of America |url=https://www.maa.org/programs-and-communities/professional-development/project-next/fellows/fellow-search-form |access-date=2018-08-14 |website=www.maa.org |language=en |archive-date=2020-03-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200322072445/https://www.maa.org/programs-and-communities/professional-development/project-next/fellows/fellow-search-form |url-status=dead }} For her work on Mathematically Gifted & Black, she was awarded the 2022 Presidential Recognition Award{{Cite web |date=August 10, 2022 |title=2022 Presidential Recognition Award |url=https://awm-math.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/2022-Presidential-Recognition-PR.pdf |access-date=January 4, 2022 |website=Association for Women in Mathematics}} of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM). She was a 2024 recipient of the Deborah and Franklin Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics.{{cite web|url=https://old.maa.org/sites/default/files/Awards/2024%20Deborah%20and%20Franklin%20Tepper%20Haimo%20Award.pdf|title=MAA Honors the Three Recipients of the Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Awards|publisher=Mathematical Association of America|date=May 23, 2024|access-date=2024-05-29}}
She co-delivered an invited plenary address at the 2021 National Math Festival.{{Cite web |date=2020-11-18 |title=2021 Festival Online |url=http://www.nationalmathfestival.org/join/2021-festival-online |access-date=2021-06-07 |website=National Math Festival |language=en}} She delivered a Mathematical Association of America (MAA) invited lecture at MathFest 2021.{{Cite web |title=Invited Addresses {{!}} Mathematical Association of America |url=https://www.maa.org/node/2567109/ |access-date=2021-06-04 |website=www.maa.org}}
References
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External links
- http://mathematicallygiftedandblack.com which features the contributions of modern-day black mathematicians.
- http://www.candicerprice.com
- Meet a Mathematician! [https://www.meetamathematician.com/interviews#h.m2tlncmsbyno Video Interview]
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