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Gloria Conyers Hewitt
Gloria Conyers Hewitt (born 1935) is an African-American mathematician. She was the third African-American woman to receive a PhD in Mathematics.[1]
Early life and education
Gloria Conyers was born on October 26, 1935 in Sumter, South Carolina.[2] She entered Fisk University in 1952 and graduated in 1956 with a degree in secondary mathematics education. She received her PhD in mathematics in 1962 from the University of Washington (completing her masters in 1960).[1]
Career
She was Professor of mathematics and department chair at the University of Montana (beginning 1995).[1]
She was known for many mathematics reason but most of all for being one of the first three black women to get a mathematics award.
Awards
She was awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation postdoctoral Science Faculty Fellowship. She was elected to the board of governors of the Mathematical Association of America.[1]
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