Michelle Manes

Michelle Ann Manes is an American mathematician whose research interests span the fields of number theory, algebraic geometry, and dynamical systems. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa,[1] and has been a program director for algebra and number theory at the National Science Foundation.[2][3]

Education and career

Manes graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1991, and earned a master's degree in deaf education at Boston University in 1993, with a concentration in mathematics education. She worked in various capacities in the Boston area as a mathematics educator from 1993 to 2003, when she returned to graduate studies.[1] She completed a second master's degree in mathematics in 2004 and a Ph.D. in 2007 at Brown University; her dissertation, Arithmetic dynamics of rational maps, was supervised by Joseph H. Silverman.[1][4] After a short-term position at the University of Southern California, she joined the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa faculty in 2008.[1] She joined the American Institute of Mathematics as Deputy Director in 2022.

Continuing her interest in mathematics education, Manes co-founded the Math Teachers’ Circle of Hawai‘i (MaTCH) in 2010.[5][6][7]

Manes was named the Associate Secretary for the Western Section of the American Mathematical Society for a term beginning in February 2022.[8]

Manes was a member of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) Abstracts Editorial Committee from 2022 - 2023.[9]

Recognition

In 2015, Manes won the Golden Section Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics of the Mathematical Association of America,[10] and in 2017 she won the Regents’ Medal for Excellence in Teaching of the University of Hawaii.[11][12]

Also in 2017, the Association for Women in Mathematics gave her their Service Award.[13] Manes was named an AWM Fellow in the 2020 class of fellows by the Association for Women in Mathematics, for "supporting research careers for women in mathematics through leadership in the WIN Network and AWM Advance Committees to enable the formation of research networks for women in many areas of mathematics".[14]

References
  1. Curriculum vitae (PDF), retrieved 2018-09-23
  2. "Michelle A Manes", Staff Directory, National Science Foundation, retrieved 2018-09-23
  3. Manes joins National Science Foundation, University of Hawaii Department of Mathematics, September 14, 2018, retrieved 2018-09-23
  4. Michelle Manes at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. Math Teachers' Circle of Hawai'i, University of Hawaii Curriculum Research and Development Group, retrieved 2018-09-23
  6. Schwartz, Katrina (February 6, 2017), "How playing with math helps teachers better empathize with students", Mindshift, KQED
  7. Math play goes a long way, WILL, February 22, 2017
  8. "Michelle Manes and Betsy Stovall named AMS Associate Secretaries". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  9. "AMS Committees". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 2023-03-29.
  10. MAA award for distinguished teaching of mathematics, University of Hawaii Department of Mathematics, April 7, 2015
  11. "Big Island Faculty Members Honored for Excellence in Teaching", Big Island Now, May 16, 2017
  12. "Adams, Ghosh Hajra, Manes Win Awards: Three MTC leaders recognized for teaching excellence and community engagement", MTCircular, Math Teachers' Circle Network, Summer–Autumn 2017
  13. Katie Kavanagh, Michelle Manes, Maura Mast and Marie Vitulli Receive the Association for Women in Mathematics Service Award, Association for Women in Mathematics, January 31, 2017
  14. "2020 AWM Fellows", Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM), retrieved 2019-10-12
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