Pao-sheng Hsu

Hsu completed her PhD under the supervision of George Bachman at Polytechnic University (previously the Polytechnic Institute of New York, now the New York University Tandon School of Engineering) in 1975. The title of her dissertation is An Application of Compactification: Some Theorems on Maximal Ideals.[1]

In 2006, Hsu, mathematician and past Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) president Suzanne Lenhart and middle school teacher Erica Voolich founded the AWM Teacher Partnership Program. "The goal of the program is to link teachers of mathematics in schools, museums, technical institutes, two-year colleges, and universities with other teachers working in an environment different from their own and with mathematicians working in business, government, and industry."[2] At the outset, the program focused on pairing individuals. In March 2011, the program was revised with a new format to provide a forum to exchange ideas related to issues that both mathematicians and teachers of mathematics perceive as important.

Hsu was presented with an Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) Service Award in 2013 "for her role in establishing the Teacher Partnership, long-time service on the [Math] Education Committee which included representing AWM at the CBMS Forum in 2009 and 2010, and service on the AWM Web Task Force (2008–2010)."[3]

Along with Jacqueline Dewar and Harriet Pollatsek, she edited the volume Mathematics Education: A Spectrum of Work in Mathematical Sciences Departments in the Association for Women in Mathematics Springer series.[4]

She was elected a fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics in the Class of 2019 "for her sustained efforts and achievements as a researcher and leader in mathematics education, especially for AWM; for her building of bridges connecting the communities of mathematicians, mathematics educators, and K–12 teachers; and for her work as a teacher and scholar of mathematics". [5]