Hortensia Soto
Hortensia Soto is a Mexican–American mathematics educator, and a professor of mathematics at Colorado State University. In May 2018, she was appointed Associate Secretary of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA).
Early life and education
Soto was born in a sod house in Belén del Refugio , part of the municipality of Teocaltiche in Jalisco, Mexico.[1] Her family moved to a farm near Morrill, Nebraska when she was one year old, and she grew up in Nebraska.[1][2][3][4] Her talent for mathematics was encouraged in elementary school and recognized in high school; already at that age she was called on to act as a substitute mathematics teacher.[3]
At Eastern Wyoming College, Soto started a political science degree. [5]Soto has a bachelor's degree in mathematics and a master's degree in mathematics education from Chadron State College in Nebraska, earned in 1988 and 1989 respectively. She earned a second master's degree in mathematics at the University of Arizona in 1994, and completed Ph.D. in educational mathematics at the University of Northern Colorado in 1996.[6]
Career
Soto worked at the
At the University of Northern Colorado, Soto founded and directed a summer program for high school girls, Las Chicas de Matemáticas: UNC Math Camp for Young Women, from 2008 to 2014,[2][3][8] and returned to rural Nebraska to participate in a teacher education program there, Math in the Middle.[3] She is a fellow of Project NExT, and has been governor of the Rocky Mountain Section of the Mathematical Association of America.[2] She is also a principal investigator of the Embodied Mathematical Imagination & Cognition project.[9]
She has a long association with the MAA and has been increasingly involved with its governance.[10] In May 2018, she took over from Gerald Venama as its Associate Secretary.[11] In October 2021, she was elected as President-Elect of MAA and is serving a two year term, starting February 1st, 2022. [12]
Recognition
In 2001, Chadron State College gave Soto their Distinguished Young Alumni Award.[4]
In 2012, the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) gave Soto their Meritorious Service Award.[2][6] She was the 2016 winner of the Burton W. Jones Distinguished Teaching Award of the Rocky Mountain Section of the MAA,[13] and one of the 2018 winners of the Deborah and Franklin Haimo Awards for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics.[1]
She is included in a deck of playing cards featuring notable women mathematicians published by the
References
- ^ a b c "2018 MAA Awards" (PDF), Mathematics People, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 65 (5): 605–606, May 2018
- ^ a b c d "Hortensia Soto", Board of governors, Mathematical Association of America, retrieved 2021-01-08
- ^ a b c d "Hortensia Soto", Latinxs and Hispanics in the Mathematical Sciences, 2019, retrieved 2021-01-08
- ^ a b Chadron State to honor four alumni, Chadron State College, September 25, 2001, retrieved 2021-01-08
- ^ "Testimonios: Dr. Hortensia Soto". MATH VALUES. April 15, 2023. Retrieved 2024-04-05.
- ^ a b c Curriculum vitae (PDF), University of Northern Colorado, retrieved 2021-01-08
- ^ "Faculty", Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University, retrieved 2021-01-08
- ^ Silvy, Tyler (June 10, 2015), "University of Northern Colorado math camp for local Latinas called off due to lack of funds", Greeley Tribune
- ^ "The EMIC Team", Embodied Mathematical Imagination & Cognition, retrieved 2021-01-08
- ^ "Hortensia Soto". Mathematical Association of America. Retrieved 2022-12-03.
- ^ "MAA Thanks Outgoing Associate Secretary, Welcomes New Officer to Role". Mathematical Association of America. August 22, 2018. Retrieved 2022-12-03.
- ^ "Election | Mathematical Association of America". maa.org. Retrieved 2024-04-05.
- ^ The Burton W. Jones Distinguished Teaching Award, MAA Rocky Mountain Section, retrieved 2021-01-08
- ^ "Mathematicians of EvenQuads Deck 1". awm-math.org. Retrieved 2022-06-18.