Rose Whelan Sedgewick ( – 2000) was an American

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. She was the first person to earn a PhD in mathematics from

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, in 1929. Her subsequent career in mathematics included assistant professorships at the University of Rochester, the University of Connecticut, Hillyer College, and the University of Maryland. Sedgewick is the namesake of the Rose Whelan Society at Brown, an organization for women and gender minorities who are graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and faculty in pure and applied in mathematics. She was married to fellow mathematician Charles H.W. Sedgewick and had four children. Biography on p.548-551 of th
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Professional honors

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