Ruth Haas

{{Short description|American mathematician and academic}}

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| caption = Ruth Haas at AWM Research Symposium, 2019

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| nationality = American

| fields = Mathematics

| workplaces = Smith College
University of Hawaii at Manoa

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| alma_mater = Swarthmore College
Cornell University

| thesis_title = Dimension and Bases for Certain Classes of Splines: A Combinatorial and Homological Approach

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| thesis_year = 1987

| doctoral_advisor = Louis Billera

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| awards = M. Gweneth Humphreys Award (2015)

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| website = {{URL|https://math.hawaii.edu/wordpress/people/rhaas/}}

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Ruth Haas is an American mathematician and professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Previously she was the Achilles Professor of Mathematics at Smith College.{{cite web |title=Ruth Haas Honored with Humphreys Award |url=https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SIGfo1wo1e5HotJRBzlvHiSbHoDjlxzD/view?usp=sharing |publisher=Association for Women in Mathematics |accessdate=27 April 2019}} She received the M. Gweneth Humphreys Award from the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) in 2015 for her mentorship of women in mathematics.{{cite web|title=Gweneth Humphreys Awards|url=https://awm-math.org/awards/humphreys-award/|publisher=Association for Women in Mathematics|accessdate=26 April 2019}} Haas was named an inaugural AWM Fellow in 2017.{{cite web|title=2018 Inaugural Class of AWM Fellows|url=https://awm-math.org/awards/awm-fellows/2018-awm-fellows|publisher=Association for Women in Mathematics|accessdate=9 January 2021}} In 2017 she was elected President of the AWM and on February 1, 2019 she assumed that position.{{cite web |title=History of the AWM |url=https://awm-math.org/about/history/ |publisher=Association for Women in Mathematics |accessdate=27 April 2019}}