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| known_for = | notable_students =Fern Yvette Hunt (born 1948) is an African-American mathematician known for her work in applied mathematics and mathematical biology.[1] Early life and educationFern Hunt was born in New York City in 1948 to Daphne Lindsay and Thomas Edward Hunt. Her grandparents had emigrated to the United States from Jamaica before World War I, hoping to find greater opportunities in New York. The family lived in a primarily black housing project in Manhattan. Hunt is the sister of poet and writer, Erica Hunt. Though her mother had attended Hunter College for two years, no one in the family had earned a college degree. As a young girl Hunt showed an interest in science, experimenting with chemistry sets and mail-order electrical kits. A high school teacher, Charles Wilson, encouraged Hunt to pursue science and mathematics.[2] She attended Bryn Mawr College, earning her A.B. degree in 1969. She went on to earn a masters and Ph.D. in mathematics from the Courant Institute of Mathematics at New York University.[1] CareerAfter briefly teaching at the University of Utah, Hunt became an assistant professor of mathematics at Howard University. While teaching at Howard, she also conducted research, working for the National Institutes of Health in the Laboratory of Mathematical Biology from 1981 to 1982, and the National Bureau of Standards from 1986 to 1991. In 1993, she began working for the National Institute of Standards and Technology where she worked on mathematical problems from physics and chemistry research. While working at NIST she continued her own research on the ergodic theory of dynamical systems.[1] Fern also lectures at colleges and universities in order to encourage students in mathematics. She uses her experiences of the set backs she experienced as a black woman in mathematics to mentor minority students interested in mathematics. In 1998 she was an instructor at a summer workshop for women entering PhD programs in mathematics run by the Edge Foundation (Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education).[1] Awards and AchievementsIn 2000, Hunt received the Arthur S. Flemming Award for her contributions to probability and stochastic modeling, mathematical biology, computational geometry, nonlinear dynamics, computer graphics, and parallel computing.[3] From 1988 to 1991, she was a member of the Graduate Record Examination Mathematics Advisory Board. She has been a member of the Bryn Mawr College board of trustees since 1992 and the Biological and Environmental Research Advisory Committee for the Department of Energy since 1994.[1] Hunt was included in the 2019 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society "for outstanding applications of mathematics to science and technology, exceptional service to the US government, and for outreach and mentoring".[4] References1. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite book|last1=Spangenburg|first1=Ray|last2=Moser|first2=Kit|title=African Americans in science, math, and invention|date=2003|publisher=Facts on File|location=New York, NY|isbn=0816048061}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Hunt, Fern}}2. ^{{cite web|title=Science Makers: Fern Hunt|url=http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/fern-hunt|website=TheHistoryMakers.com|accessdate=22 April 2017}} 3. ^{{Cite web| title = Fern Hunt Receives Arthur S. Flemming Award| work = NIST| accessdate = 2015-02-23| date = June 2000| url = http://math.nist.gov/mcsd/highlights/hunt-award.html}} 4. ^{{citation|url=https://www.ams.org/profession/ams-fellows/new-fellows|title=2019 Class of the Fellows of the AMS|publisher=American Mathematical Society|accessdate=2018-11-08}} 14 : 1948 births|Living people|20th-century American mathematicians|21st-century American mathematicians|African-American mathematicians|African-American women|American women mathematicians|Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences alumni|Bryn Mawr College alumni|University of Utah faculty|Howard University faculty|Fellows of the American Mathematical Society|20th-century women mathematicians|21st-century women mathematicians |
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