@inbook{ae024273749a44e6930b2c3ecf212a6f,
title = "Difficult Dialogues in the Midwest: A Retrospective on the Impact of EDGE at Purdue University",
abstract = "EDGE 2016 was held at Purdue University from June 6 through July 2, 2016. This meeting brought together some 20 participants from the EDGE program along with alumni from the Midwest EDGE Cluster at Purdue, graduate students from the Purdue Chapter of AWM, and undergraduate students from the local REU titled PRiME (Purdue Research in Mathematics Experience). In this article, we discuss the impact of EDGE 2016 on Purdue University, as told by the Midwest EDGE Cluster and AWM advisor Donatella Danielli; Mini-Course leader Rachel Davis; Difficult Dialogue leader Zenephia Evans; and local organizers Alejandra Alvarado and Edray Goins.",
keywords = "Difficult dialogues, EDGE cluster, Imposter Syndrome",
author = "Alejandra Alvarado and Donatella Danielli and Rachel Davis and Zenephia Evans and Goins, {Edray Herber}",
note = "Funding Information: EDGE{\textquoteright}s Mentoring Clusters Mentoring is a crucial component of the EDGE experience. EDGE students are mentored by the EDGE summer faculty, the advanced graduate student assisting with the program, and the directors. As an expansion of one-on-one mentoring, in 2005 EDGE created regional Mentoring Clusters for women in the mathematical sciences, with financial support originally provided by an NSF ADVANCE grant. The goal of this structure is to advance women in academia at the three fundamental levels of graduate school, junior faculty and senior faculty, by creating mentoring networks among small groups of women in relatively close geographical proximity. The guiding principle is that, through periodic gatherings and frequent communication, the Clusters would facilitate the mentoring of junior women by senior women and the mentoring of graduate students by those in the other two groups. Hence, such a network would assist the younger two groups in advancing their professional goals while relying on the expertise of senior faculty. Although many of the students and junior faculty in the Clusters have been past participants in EDGE, other women mathematicians, at different stages of their career, have also joined in. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019, The Author(s) and the Association for Women in Mathematics.",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-19486-4_6",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Association for Women in Mathematics Series",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "55--65",
booktitle = "Association for Women in Mathematics Series",
}