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Mathematics Foundation of America

The Mathematics Foundation of America is an American non-profit organization based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is the host of the Canada/USA Mathcamp program.1)

History

Founding

MFOA was founded in 1995 in South Carolina “as a vehicle for providing high school students in North America with financial assistance to attend Canada/USA Mathcamps (sic), which began in 1993 in the beautiful city of Vancouver, Canada.”2)

Organization

Personnel

Mathematics Foundation of America personnel3)
Name Position Notes
Daniel Zaharopol Chair Learning Unlimited, Art of Problem Solving, Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics (BEAM), Art of Problem Solving Initiative4)
Yvonne Lai Vice Chair University of Nebraska-Lincoln, College of Arts and Sciences, Mathematical Association of America (MAA), Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM), Problems, Resources, and Issues in Mathematics Undergraduate Studies (PRIMUS), MODULE(S2), Community for Advancing Discovery Research in Education (CADRE)5)
David Savitt Secretary Johns Hopkins University
Greg Burnham Treasurer Elemental Cognition, Bridgewater Associates6)
Marisa Debowsky Executive Director Summer Programs Roundtable, New York University7)
George Thomas President (former)8) Epsilon Camp, MathPath9)
Mira Bernstein Executive Director (former), Chair (former) Served as Executive Director from April 2002 to September 2016, and Chair from September 2016 - October 2022.10) 11)
Allan Adams Director (former)12) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Future Ocean Lab, Harvard Society of Fellows13)
1)
Ways to Contribute. Canada/USA Mathcamp. Retrieved January 11, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230111225911/https://www.mathcamp.org/giving/ways_to_contribute/
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History and Structure. Mathematics Foundation of America. Retrieved December 2, 1998, from https://web.archive.org/web/19981202105539/http://www.mfoa.org/history.htm
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Home. Mathematics Foundation of America. Retrieved January 11, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230111225925/https://www.mfoa.org/
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Daniel Zaharopol. LinkedIn. Retrieved January 13, 2023, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielzaharopol/
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Home. Yvonne Lai. Retrieved January 14, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230114073316/https://yvonnexlai.com/
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Greg Burnham. LinkedIn. Retrieved January 13, 2023, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-burnham-b9264112b/
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Marisa Debowsky. LinkedIn. Retrieved January 13, 2023, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/marisadebowsky/
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Epsilon Camp. Art of Problem Solving. Retrieved January 16, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230116063940/https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/Epsilon_Camp
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Mira Bernstein. LinkedIn. Retrieved January 11, 2023, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/mira-bernstein-1550a1137/
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Mathematics Foundation of America. GuideStar. Retrieved January 11, 2023, from https://archive.ph/WStHr
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Home. Mathematics Foundation of America. Retrieved February 27, 2016, from https://archive.ph/pajzA
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Allan Adams - Home. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved January 16, 2023, from https://archive.ph/Fji3j
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