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Personal Summary

Current Duties within the Math Department & Graduate School

• Professor of Math
• Oversees operations of the Graduate School
• Oversees Graduate School policy, ex officio member of Graduate Council
• Co-Directs the Graduate Interdisciplinary Studies Program 
• Develops new initiatives in support of graduate student development
• PI of NSF STARS and Willow AGEP projects, Co-PI and Co-lead of the NSF WiSEN, HHMI CIS and Sloan SIGP projects

Education

Ph.D.University of Minnesota
Mathematics Education

M.S.University of Minnesota
Applied and Computational Mathematics

M.A.University of Minnesota
Counseling Psychology

B.L.(Bachelor of Laws) Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, China

Projects

Slected Current Projects

Co-Principal Investigator. (2023-2025). Dell, E., Beck, M., Wu, K., Howard, M., and Cadwell, J. National Science Foundation INCLUDES DDLP, WiSEN – Supporting Minoritized Women Students in STEM, Cultivating Pathways Using Mentoring Networks (WiSEN). (Amount: $599,994; Award # 2304093)

Principal Investigator. (2022-2028). Wu, K. Peck, F., & Harrington, J. National Science Foundation S-STEM. Collaborative Research: Supporting Talent with Aligned Resources for STEM Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ (STARS). (Amount: $1,692,873; Award # 2130286)

Core Lead Team Member. (2022-2027). Thomas, A., Peck, F., Wu, K., Whittenburg, S., Bird, K., and Kimbell, N. Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Driving Change: Coalition for Indigenous STEM (CIS). (Amount $2,499,720)

Principal Investigator. (2017-2024). Wu, K., Hall, R.A., Brown, B., Walker, L., & Patterson, M. National Science Foundation AGEP, Collaborative Research: The Willow AGEP Alliance: A Model to Advance Native American STEM Faculty. (Amount: $1,854,323; Award # 1723248)

Field of Study

Mathematics Education

Selected Publications

Slected Recent Peer Review Journal Articles

Feliciano-Semidei, R., Wu, K., & Chaphalkar, R. (2022). . 19(2), 93-109.

Grant, A., Swan, K., Wu, K., Plenty Sweetgrass-She Kills, R., Hill, S., & Kinch, A. (2022, February). , 6557.

Beck, M., Cadwell, J., Kern, A., Wu, K., Dickerson, M., & Howard, M. (2022). , 29(1), 167-187.

Peck, F. A., Renga, I. P., Wu, K., & Erickson, D. (2021). , 1-28.

Wu, K., Chaphalkar, R., Hecker, M., & Lask, E. (2020). . 59(2), 7-32.

Renga, I.P., Peck, F., Feliciano-Semidei, R., Erickson, D., & Wu, K. (2020). Doing math and talking school: Professional talk as producing hybridity in teacher identity and community. Linguistics and Education, 55. DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2019.100766.

Affiliations

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Honors / Awards

Women's Leadership Inititive, Ñý¼§Ö±²¥, 2019-2020

Sabbatical Award, Ñý¼§Ö±²¥, 2017-2018

Ñý¼§Ö±²¥, Division of Student Affairs, Service to Students Award, March 2013

Service, Teaching, and Research (STaR) for Mathematics Education, Fellow, 2010

Priscilla Hawn Fellowship, Fellow, University of Minnesota, 2007