Ulrica Wilson
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Ulrica Wilson is an American mathematician specializing in the theory of noncommutative rings and in the combinatorics of matrices.[1] She is an associate professor at Morehouse College, associate director of diversity and outreach at the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM),[2][1] and a former vice president of the National Association of Mathematicians.[3]
Wilson is African-American,[2] and originally from Massachusetts, but grew up in Birmingham, Alabama.[2] She is a 1992 graduate of Spelman College,[4] and completed her Ph.D. at Emory University in 2004. Her dissertation, Cyclicity of Division Algebras over an Arithmetically Nice Field, was supervised by Eric Brussel.[5]
Wilson has contributed to the advancement of black women, women of color, and women in general in the field of mathematical sciences through the program EDGE[6] Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education, which is a program that helps minorities with support in order to achieve academic goals and obtain Doctoral Degrees.[7]
After two stints as a postdoctoral researcher,[2] she joined the Morehouse College faculty in 2007, and became associate director at ICERM in 2013.[1] She serves on the Education Advisory Board for ICERM.[8]
In collaboration with ICERM, Wilson is also co-director of the REUF program,[9] The Research Experience for Undergraduate Faculty, this program was founded under the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) to provide undergraduate faculty a community of scholars that support exchange and expand research ideas and projects to engage in with undergraduate students.[9]
