Biography
Cynthia Lanius now serves as Associate Director for The Math Forum @ Drexel. Prior to this, she served as Executive Director for Rice's Center for Excellence and Equity in Education. Before Cynthia came to Rice University in March 1998, she taught mathematics for 8 years at Milby High School in Houston Independent school District.
Ms. Lanius is a member of the Advisory Board, Rice University School Mathematics Project (RUSMP), OnMath Editorial Board for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), the Texas Computer Education Association. She has received the following awards:
Ms. Lanius has become a leader on publishing and using mathematics on the web. See the complete index of her lessons at http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/Lessons. She has given numerous presentations on related topics. Selected presentations are published here. Ms. Lanius is especially interested in increasing the participation of women and underrepresented minorities in the computational sciences. In 2003, She co-authored Factors that Influence Science and Engineering Graduate Student Diversity: Rice Faculty Survey(2003).She also co-authored
- Harris County Math/Science Teacher of the Year 1992, Houston Museum of Natural Science;
- CBE Math/Science/Humanities/Social Science Fellow 1993, Council Basic Education;
- Eleanor Roosevelt Teacher Fellow,1996-1997, American Association of University Women;
- National STAR Award, Spring, 1997, National Education and Technology Alliance; and
- Rice University Women's Resource Center, Impact Award, 1998.
both of which can be accessed here,and written essays entitled: You can read Ms. Lanius interviewed about GirlTECH from WWW4Teachers.
- Underrepresented Minority Achievement and Course Taking - The Kindergarten-Graduate Continuum and
- Promoting National Minority Leadership in Science and Engineering