academis interests included algebra, applied statistics, and comouter law. She also received the 1994 Montor award for Lifetime Achievement from the American Association for Advancement of Science. She was reconized for "the
extraordinary number of women and underrepresented
minorities she has affected in her career both
direclty and indirectly through the influence of her
former students and the programs she has initiated and
developed. Her twenty doctoral students include eleven
women and five African American women." This award also cited her for her work on behalf of international human rights. In 1996 her and Nina Roscher, Department of Chemistry, received a $95,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, this was to encourage young women a the American University to strengthen their mathematics and science studies. Also not to drop classes as it happened in College. They devised a program that would allow twentyfive first year women students to explore connections between public policy, science, and mathematics.
Charlotte Angas Scott
She recieved her Ph.D in 1954, from the Institute of Mathmatics of Moscow State University. She also taought there since her graduate days. She became head of the department of differential equations in 1873. SHe wrote over three hundred published papers and eight books. Her main research was concerned with algebraic geometry, partial differential equations, and mathematical physics. Winner of numerous prizes. The 1996 AWM Noether Lecturer. She was 76 when she died on October 11, 2001. She will be rembered as a lady with a very strong oersonality. She was very generous lady with her colleagues and her friendship. Once cquired it was limitless. Her loss was felt deeply by the international mathematical community.