The M. Gweneth Humphreys Award or Humphreys Award is a mathematics award established by the Association for Women in Mathematics in recognition of mathematics educators who have exhibited outstanding mentorship. The award is named for Mabel Gweneth Humphreys (1911-2006) who earned her Ph.D. at age 23 from the University of Chicago in 1935. Biography on p.300-303 of the Supplementary Material at AMS She taught mathematics to women for her entire career, first at Mount St. Scholastica College, then for several years at Sophie Newcomb College, and finally for over thirty years at Randolph Macon Woman's College. This award, funded by contributions from her former students and colleagues at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, recognizes her commitment to and her influence on undergraduate students of mathematics.

Recipients The following mathematicians have been honored with the Humphreys Award: YearRecipient2026Anant P. Godbole2025Dewey Taylor2024Maria Cristina Villalobos2023Erika Tatiana Camacho2022Maria Helena Noronha2021Raegan Higgins2020Margaret M. Robinson2019Suzanne Weekes2018Erica Flapan2017Helen G. Grundman2016Naomi Jochnowitz2015Ruth Haas2014William Yslas Vélez2013James A. Morrow2012Deanna Haunsperger2011Rhonda Hughes

See also

List of mathematics awards

References