Nagambal Shah

Math Alliance Mentor
Spelman College
Atlanta, GA



Nagambal Shah is a senior faculty member of the Spelman College Mathematics Department where she has served for over thirty years. She received her Bachelors degree in Mathematics and Masters in Statistics from India and M.S. and Ph.D. from University of Windsor in Ontario Canada. She has developed and taught the statistics courses at Spelman and mentored several undergraduate research projects. Several of her students have gone to graduate school and received Ph.D. in Statistics/Biostatistics from institutions like MIT, UNC Chapel Hill, University of Maryland, U.C. Berkeley, University of Birmingham Alabama, to name a few. In November 2001 she coordinated and hosted at Spelman College the first StatFest, a one day conference aimed at encouraging undergraduate Minority students to pursue careers and graduate studies in statistical sciences with major supports from American Statistical Association's Committee on Minority Statisticians. Since then it has been successfully rep licated at Hampton University, Mehary Medical College, North Carolina State University, University of Hawai-West O'ahu, Florida A&M University, University of Texas El Paso, University of Washington Seattle, Eli Lilly and Lamar University. In 2005 she spearheaded the efforts to host and obtain funding for the first ever Infinite Possibilities Conference co-chaired by Spelman Alumnae Tanya Henneman and Leona Harris. She is an advocate for diversity in graduate education especially for African Americans and women and received the 2001 Martin Luther King Jr. Community service Award for Excellence in Education and Diversity from Emory University, Atlanta, GA. She was selected as a SENCER (Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities) faculty by AACU (Association of American Colleges and Universities) for her course CHANCE which was selected as one of four featured SENCER Models in the year 2003. She was the past chair of the American Statistical Association's (ASA) Committee on Minorities in Statistics and currently as a member of ASA's Committee on Committees serves as a liaison of the Diversity Committees to ASA Board.

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