September 29, 2006
Black Mathematicians, Still a Rarity, See Light at the End of the Pipeline
Emery N. Brown, Dennis Davenport, George F. Edmonds, and Elaine C. Smith were academic rarities when they earned their doctorates almost 20 years ago: They were the only black Americans known to have earned a Ph.D. in mathematics during the 1987-88 academic year.
At the time, colleges and universities across the country spoke in frenzied terms about the urgent need to recruit more minority professors. But in many fields, there were nowhere near enough minority scholars in the pipeline
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