Pao-sheng Hsu is a mathematics educator,

Career

Hsu completed her PhD under George Bachman at Polytechnic University (previously the Polytechnic Institute of New York, now the New York University Tandon School of Engineering) in 1975; her dissertation was titled ''An Application of Compactification: Some Theorems on Maximal Ideals''. In 1999, 2000, and 2001, Hsu served in the "Human Rights of Mathematicians" committee of the

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

. In 2006, Hsu, mathematician and past

Association for Women in Mathematics The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is a professional society whose mission is to encourage women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences, and to promote equal opportunity for and the equal treatment o ...

(AWM) president

Suzanne Lenhart Suzanne Marie Lenhart (born November 19, 1954) is an American mathematician who works in partial differential equations, optimal control and mathematical biology. She is a Chancellor's Professor of mathematics at the University of Tennessee,

and middle school teacher Erica Voolich founded the AWM Teacher Partnership Program. "The goal of the program is to link teachers of mathematics in schools, museums, technical institutes, two-year colleges, and universities with other teachers working in an environment different from their own and with mathematicians working in business, government, and industry." , she is an organizer of the AWM Teacher Partnership, with Suzanne Lenhart and Erica Voolich. She also translated a news article about the discussion "Complexities and Opportunities for Women in Mathematics" at the 2002 International Congress of Mathematicians for the AWM newsletter. With

Jacqueline Dewar Jacqueline M. Dewar (née Deveny) is an American mathematician and mathematics educator known for her distinguished teaching and her mentorship of women in mathematics. She is a professor emerita of mathematics at Loyola Marymount University. Edu ...

and Harriet Pollatsek, she edited the volume ''Mathematics Education: A Spectrum of Work in Mathematical Sciences Departments'', which was published by Springer International Publishing on 26 November 2016 as part of the Association for Women in Mathematics series.

Awards

Hsu was presented with an

(AWM) Service Award in 2013 "''for her role in establishing the Teacher Partnership, long-time service on the

ath Ath (; nl, Aat, ; pcd, Ât; wa, Ate) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. The municipality consists of the following districts: Arbre, Ath, Bouvignies, Ghislenghien, Gibecq, Houtaing, Irc ...

Education Committee which included representing AWM at the CBMS Forum in 2009 and 2010, and service on the AWM Web Task Force (2008–2010).''" She was elected a fellow of the

in the Class of 2019 "''for her sustained efforts and achievements as a researcher and leader in mathematics education, especially for AWM; for her building of bridges connecting the communities of mathematicians, mathematics educators, and K–12 teachers; and for her work as a teacher and scholar of mathematics''".

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 20th-century women mathematicians 21st-century women mathematicians Fellows of the Association for Women in Mathematics {{mathematician-stub