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= Marta Hidegkuti =

Summary
Marta Hidegkuti is a professor of mathematics at Harry S Truman Community College, in Chicago, IL. She is of Hungarian-Jewish descent and emigrated to the United States in 1995.

Early Life
Marta Hidegkuti was born in Budapest, Hungary on June 21, 1973. She is the daughter of Karoly Hidegkuti and Anna Kormos and the eldest of three siblings.

Education
Between 1991-1995, Hidegkuti attended Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem (ELTE) University where she studied mathematics, Hungarian, and world literature. She studied for two years under the tutelage of Lajos Pósa, a pupil of Paul Erdős, while at ELTE. I was interested in math before I met him [Pósa]. But I liked other subjects too, and he was a factor of deciding to focus on math. Also, he made me take teaching math very seriously. -Marta Hidegkuti, in an interview, February 2020 In 1998 and 1999, she received a bachelors and masters degree in pure mathematics, with a focus in number theory and abstract algebra, from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Career
Professor Hidegkuti has been teaching since 1992. While attending ELTE, she was involved with a student foundation and taught material. Between 1998 to the present day, Professor Hidegkuti has taught any numerous schools in Chicago, IL. She held adjunct positions at UIC, Columbia College, IIT, and Truman College. She was also a part-time mathematics teacher at the Truman Middle College High School. Currently she teaches mathematics full-time at Truman. In addition to her full-time teaching status, she is also the coordinator for two algebra courses. Between 2018-2019, she took a sabbatical to redesign two algebra courses, Math 98/99.

Awards and Honors
Throughout her career, Professor Hidegkuti has received several awards. In 1997, she was awarded the Kathy Hill Cawthon Memorial Award. This award is preferentially awarded to female students. In 1998, she was awarded College Honors and Highest Distinction in Mathematics. During the 1998-1999 academic year, she was awarded a Pre-doctoral Fellowship from UIC for participation in the master's degree program for mathematics at UIC.