Kalina Mincheva

Service and Outreach

Outrech Awards

  • Diversity and Outreach Award by the School of Science and Engineering (2024).

Outrech Activities at Tulane

  • Since Spring 2022 I have been involved in AAU's learning community to make teaching evaluations more equitable.
  • In Spring 2024 I co-organized Math for All conference at Tulane.
  • I gave a talk at the Tulane AWM-AMS seminar (February 7, 2024).
  • In Spring 2024 I co-organized and activity for 8th grade girls from schools in New Orleans as part of involvement with National coalition of 100 black women.
  • In Summer 2023 I spoke at the Role Model Series at the Combinatoics and Coding theory in the Tropics REU.
  • In Spring 2023 I co-organized Math for All conference at Tulane.
  • I gave a talk at the Tulane AWM-AMS seminar (October 12, 2022).
  • Since Fall 2021 I have been serving as the Graduate Director of Admissions for the Math Department.
  • In Spring 2022 I co-organized Math for All conference at Tulane.
  • In Spring 2021 I organized a book club. We read "Mathmatics for Human Florishing" by Francis Su. This was part of the IMTF activities.
  • I was a panelist at the Math for All conference at Tulane (March 5-7, 2021).
  • I was a panelist at the Women in STEM virtual Town Hall meeting at Tulane (March 4, 2021).
  • I am part of the Inclusivity Math Task Force (IMTF) at Tulane.

Outrech Activities at Yale and Johns Hopkins

  • I was a mentor at the Yale program for Women in STEM (WISAY) for two female graduate students.
  • I was the faculty sponsor for the Yale AWM chapter.
  • I was the faculty sponsor for Dimensions at Yale.
  • I was co-organizing the Intersections Seminar at Yale, geared towards inclusivity in math.
  • I was involved in the PILOT learning program at Johns Hopkins - a peer-led-team learning program.
  • I organized JHU's "Math TA Lunches" for a semester, providing an opportunity to teaching assistants in mathematics to talk about their classroom experience and discuss problems and difficulties they might be facing.
  • I created and graded the JHU Future scholars exam in 2012. The Future scholars program allows high school seniors to take university-level mathematics courses for Hopkins credits.

Misc

I was given the great honor to be invited as one of the few faculty members to attend the Johns Hopkins High Table Dinner in 2015.