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A Positive Force BINDER PRIZE GOES TO EVA GOMEZ


If you’re an HMC employee, it’s quite likely that Eva Gomez knows your name. As human resources assistant, she handles key areas, including benefi ts enrollment, dependent tuition scholarships and using the College’s payroll system. Her interactions so impressed her managers and colleagues


that she was selected to receive the 2013 Mary G. Binder Prize, an award that recognizes support staff committed to helping others. The Binder Prize—which carries with it an award of


$750—was bestowed on Gomez in May at the annual year- end celebration of and for HMC employees. “For me, winning the Binder Prize is the highest form of


recognition I could receive from my peers and colleagues,” Gomez said. “I was overtaken by emotion. It is humbling to read what people think of you as a person and your contribu- tion to the HMC community. It is an honor and a wonderful moment in my career.”


An invaluable resource Friendly and knowledgeable, Gomez works with a caring, up- beat attitude. In particular, she is known for a willingness to go above and beyond in assisting students, faculty, staff, parents, applicants and visitors. She speaks fl uent Spanish, which makes her an invaluable resource to employees for whom Spanish is their fi rst language. Mary G. Binder was the mother-in-law of Professor Emeri- tus Sam Tanenbaum. He and his wife, Carol, established and


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Outstanding Paper Published research co-authored by math- ematics Professor Andrew Bernoff was recognized in July as outstanding by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathe- matics (SIAM). “A Primer of Swarm Equi- libria”—appearing in the SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems and written in collaboration with Macalester College


mathematics Professor Chad Topaz—encapsulated nearly fi ve years of work in the modeling of locust-swarm confi gurations. It explained how solutions could be found to one of the most common models used to describe biological swarms.


Formula for Enchantment For the third year, mathemat- ics Professor Talithia Williams (shown, right, with mathematics Professor Rachel Levy) organized a successful conference to empow- er middle- and high-school girls—


African-Americans in particular—by introducing them to role models from academia, business and other professional fi elds. Held in April, the Sacred SISTAHS math and science conference attracted more than 100 students. Williams sees creatively taught mathematics as a formula for teen enchantment with numbers, a gateway to developing their interest in disciplines of all types.


“Winning the Binder Prize is the highest form of recognition I could receive from my peers and colleagues.”


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Eva Gomez


endowed the prize in 1997 as an expression of gratitude to HMC’s support staff and in keeping with Binder’s belief that the greatest virtue in life is to help others.


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Har vey Mudd College SUMMER 2013


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