User:ExtandTor/sandbox Dandrielle Lewis

Dandrielle Cherie Lewis, originally from Elizabethtown, NC, is the department chair and Department Chair of Mathematical Sciences and Associate Professor of Mathematics at High Point University.

Education and career
Lewis received her PhD in Mathematics from SUNY Binghamton in 2011. She has a Bachelor of Science from Winston Salem State University, 2001, and a Masters of Science from the University of Iowa, 2006. Her dissertation, Containment of subgroups in a direct product of groups, was supervised by Benjamin Brewster. Her field of Mathematics is Finite Group Theory.

She was an Associate Professor of Mathematics at University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire (having joined the faculty in 2011). While there, she founded and directed the UWEC’s Sonia Kovalevsky Math Days, a "program of hands-on workshops and talks for high school girls and their teachers" to encourage girls to study mathematics. She was hired at High Point University in 2019.

Awards and Honors
Lewis was awarded the 2016 Henry L. Alder Award from the Mathematical Association of America.

She is a 2018 Mathematically Gifted and Black honoree, a project of the The Network of Minorities in Mathematical Sciences.