Gloria Conyers Hewitt is an African-American mathematician. She was the 3rd African-American woman to receive a PhD in Mathematics. Gloria Conyers was born on October 26, 1935 in
Sumter, South Carolina.
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).
She was Professor of mathematics and department chair at the
University of Montana (beginning 1995). She was known for many mathematics reason but most of all for being one of the 1st three black women to get a mathematics reward. 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.
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