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Sabrina Zarza will be defending her dissertation titled "Flying Above the Cloaks of Whiteness: A Bruja's Examination of Latine Servingness in Post Secondary Mathematics" on Friday, June 12, 2026 at 2pm at the MSU Main Library (360 room, 2nd floor) and Zoom.

PRIME PhD students Claire Lambert and Sabrina Zarza were recognized at graduation and a PRIME luncheon celebration.

PRIME PhD student C. Davis received a MSU College of Education Distinguished Graduate Student Award in Justice and Equity Pedagogy.

Congratulations to PRIME doctoral students, Ashley Fabry and I Putu Ade “Andre” Payadnya, who are the 2025-2026 recipients of the Tracy A. Hammer Graduate Student Award for Professional Development. 

Dr. Jocelyn Rios, Assistant Professor at the University of Northern Colorado, will be presenting at the Mathematics Education Colloquium on Monday, April 13th.

Read about the MSU mathematics education group at the 2026 AERA Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, April 8-12.

Congratulations to Beth Herbel-Eisenmann, Director of PRIME and the Mathematics Education Doctoral Program, who has received the MSU Graduate School's Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award for 2025-2026.

MSU Math Ed faculty and students will be presenting at the 2026 MI-AMTE CAC (Michigan Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators Conversations Among Colleagues) conference on Saturday, March 14th at Wayne State University in Detroit.

Dr. Yasemin Copur-Gencturk, Professor of Education at the University of Southern California, will be presenting at the Mathematics Education Colloquium on Thursday, March 19, 2026. 

Ashley Fabry, mathematics education doctoral student at Michigan State University, will be presenting at the 2026 Math in Action conference on Saturday, February 28th at Grand Valley State University, in Mackinac Hall's D wing.

MSU mathematics education faculty and staff will be presenting at the 28th Conference on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education (RUME) this Thursday, February 26th through Saturday, February 28th, 2026 in Alexandria, Virginia. 

Dr. Alden Jack “AJ” Edson, mathematics education faculty member, presented at the AIET in STEM Forum in South Korea in December.

See who from MSU will be presenting at the 30th Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE) Annual Conference in Portland, Oregon February 5th-7th!

The annual Mathematics Education Research Sharing Session for 2025 was held on November 6 in the STEM Building.

Many PRIME community members presented at or participated in conferences across the globe this summer of 2025. We invite our readers to peek into the amazing work of MSU mathematics education research scholars!

Dr. Lino Guajardo, Assistant Professor at Central Michigan University, will be presenting at the Mathematics Education Colloquium on Friday, November 7, 2025.

PRIME is thrilled to welcome and introduce you to Sevda Sadik, a first-year mathematics education doctoral student at MSU.

Over a dozen mathematics education researchers from Michigan State University will be traveling to Penn State to present at the annual PME-NA conference.