Evelyn Boyd Granville

1. Evelyn Boyd Granville Elizabeth Ehlers April 8, 2010

2. Evelyn Boyd Granville • Born May 1, 1924 • Second child and daughter. • In school her favorite subject was math • Graduated from Dunbar High School • One of five valedictorians • Entered Smith College in 1941 • With help from her aunt, and a Phi Delta Kappa schlarship

3. Evelyn Boyd Granville-College Life • Concentrated her studies in mathematics, theoretical physics and astronomy. • Evelyn put in a lot of thought into become an astronomer instead of a mathematician • Smith provided financial aid after her freshman year as well as summer work as a mathematician • Graduated summa cum laude from Smith in 1945. • A scholarship from the Smith Student Aid Society allowed for graduate school.

4. Evelyn Boyd Granville-Graduate School • Accepted at- • University of Michigan • Yale University • Evelyn chose to attend Yale • She was awarded the Julius Rosenwald Fellowship twice • In her final year, she was granted an Atomic Energy Commission Predoctoral Fellowship • In her doctoral dissertation she discussed the properties of the Laguerre series in the complex domain. • She graduated with her doctorate in mathematics in 1949 becoming the second African American woman to do so.

5. Evelyn Boyd Granville-life after college • Spent a year as a research assistant at the New York Institute for Mathematics • Became an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee for two years. • In 1952 she accepted a position as a mathematician at the National Bureau of Standards. • Diamond Ordinance Fuze Laboratories • She started working at IBM in 1956 • In 1962 she accepted a position of research specialist with the space and information systems division of NAA • In 1963 she went back to IBM • She accepted a teaching position at California State University in 1967 • For three years, from 1985-1988 Evelyn taught at Texas College, retiring there after