The HistoryMakers video oral history with Sylvia Bozeman.
| Format | Video (Streaming) |
| Publication | Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]. |
| Description | 1 online resource (7 video files (3 hr., 10 min., 51 sec.)) : sound, color. |
| Supplemental Content | https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2012.209 |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Bozeman, Sylvia, 1947- interviewee. |
| Other author/creator | Crowe, Larry F., interviewer. |
| Other author/creator | Hickey, Matthew, director of photography. |
| Other author/creator | HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company. |
| Variant title | History Makers video oral history with Sylvia Bozeman |
| Portion of title | Sylvia Bozeman |
| Abstract | Sylvia Trimble Bozeman was born in 1947, in Camp Hill, Alabama. She was the third of five children to Horace T., Sr. and Robbie Jones. In 1968, Bozeman graduated from Alabama A&M University with her B.S. degree in mathematics. She went on to earn her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics, from Vanderbilt University in 1971, and Emory University in 1980, respectively. Bozeman became a full professor at Spelman College in 1991, then served as chair of the mathematics department from 1982 to 1993, and as adjunct faculty in the math department at Atlanta University from 1983 to 1985. In 1993, Bozeman established the Center for the Scientific Applications of Mathematics at Spelman College in 1993, and served as director. Bozeman is a member of the Mathematical Association of America, and, in 1997, she became the first African-American elected as an MAA Section. In 2012, she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. |
| Credits | Videographer, Matthew Hickey. |
| Performer | Larry Crowe, interviewer. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded Atlanta, Georgia 2012 December 18. |
| Source of description | Vendor-supplied metadata. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Interviews. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Stock number | A2012.209 HistoryMakers |