Dawn Alisha Lott is an applied mathematician at

Delaware State University Delaware State University (DSU or Del State) is a public historically black land-grant research university in Dover, Delaware. DSU also has two satellite campuses: one in Wilmington and one in Georgetown. The university encompasses four col ...

, where she is a professor in the department of physical and computational sciences and, since 2009, the director of the university's honors program.

Research

Lott's research concerns numerical partial differential equations in solid mechanics,

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, and biomechanics. She has also published several papers on

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Education and career

Lott is

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. She graduated from

Bucknell University Bucknell University is a private liberal arts college in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1846 as the University at Lewisburg, it now consists of the College of Arts and Sciences, Freeman College of Management, and the College of Engineering. ...

in 1987, with a bachelor's degree in mathematics, and earned a master's degree in mathematics from

Michigan State University Michigan State University (Michigan State, MSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the fi ...

in 1989. She did her doctoral work in Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics at

Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Charte ...

, completing her Ph.D. in 1994. Her dissertation, ''Adaptive Chebyshev Pseudo-Spectral Approximation for Shear Band Formation in Viscoplastic Materials'', was jointly supervised by Alvin Bayliss and

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. After postdoctoral research from 1994 to 1997 at the

University of Maryland, College Park The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of Mary ...

, Lott became a faculty member at the

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in 1998. She moved to Delaware State in 2003.In 2004, she was an EDGE instructor.

Recognition

Lott was the AWM/MAA Falconer Lecturer for 2011. Her lecture concerned the mathematical treatment of

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s. In 2013, Delaware State gave her their award for Faculty Excellence in Advising, and in 2014 they gave her their award for Faculty Excellence in University and Community Service. Lott's accomplishments earned her recognition by Mathematically Gifted & Black as a Black History Month 2019 Honoree. Lott was selected as a Fellow of the

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in the Class of 2021 "''for her deep commitment to the advancement of women as reflected through her many roles in AWM, the National Association of Mathematicians, and other associations as a committee member, leader, mentor, and speaker, and in supervision of several women obtaining the PhD or MS degree''".

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