Tara Holm

Tara Holm is a professor of mathematics and chair of the department of mathematics at Cornell University. She earned a bachelor of arts in mathematics from Dartmouth College and a doctorate in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Holm started at Cornell after a National Science Foundation postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley, and a year at the University of Connecticut. She has been a Simons Fellow; a von Neumann Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study; an Oliver Smithies Visiting Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford; and a visiting fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge.  Holm’s leadership in mathematics and mathematics education is prominent on the national stage, as she has chaired the AMS Committee on Education, is a member of the board of directors for Transforming Post-Secondary Education in Mathematics, and is currently the president/CEO of Pro Mathematica Arte.