Background
Rees, Mina Spiegel was born on August 2, 1902 in Cleveland. Daughter of Moses and Alice Louise (Stackhouse) Rees.
Rees, Mina Spiegel was born on August 2, 1902 in Cleveland. Daughter of Moses and Alice Louise (Stackhouse) Rees.
AB, Hunter College, 1923. Doctor of Science, Hunter College, 1973. A.M., Columbia University, 1925.
Doctor of Laws, Columbia University, 1971. Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1931. Doctor of Science (honorary), Mount Holyoke College, 1962.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Wilson College. Doctor of Science (honorary), Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts. Doctor of Science (honorary), Oberlin College, 1964.
Doctor of Science (honorary), University Michigan, 1970. Doctor of Science (honorary), Nazareth College of Rochester, 1971. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Rochester, 1971.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Carnegie Mellon University, 1972. Doctor of Science (honorary), Mount Sinai School Medicine, 1972. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Illinois, 1972.
Doctor of Science (honorary), State University of New York, 1987. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Rutgers University, 1965. Honorary Doctor of Laws, Miami University, 1970.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), New York University, 1971. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Marymount College, 1971. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), City University New York, 1974.
Doctor of Engineering (honorary), Stevens Institute of Technology, 1980.
Instructor mathematics, Hunter College, 1926-1932;
assistant professor, Hunter College, 1932-1940;
associate professor, Hunter College, 1940-1950;
professor, dean faculty, Hunter College, 1953-1961;
professor, dean graduate studies, CUNY, 1961-1968;
provost Graduate Division, CUNY, 1968-1969;
president Graduate school and University Center, CUNY, 1969-1972;
president emeritus, CUNY, since 1972. Technology aide, administrative assistant to chief applied mathematics panel, national defense research committee Office Science Research and Development, 1943-1946. Head mathematics branch Office Naval Research, 1946-1949, director mathematics science division, 1949-1952, deputy science director, 1952-1953.
Member mathematics division National Research Council, 1953-1956, member Executive Committee, 1954-1956. Member general science advisory panel. Department Defense, 1957-1961.
Member of advisory board Computation and Exterior Ballistics Laboratory United States Navy, 1958-1961. Advisory commission for mathematics National Bureau Standards, 1954-1958, chairman, 1954-1957. Member of advisory panel for mathematics science National Science Foundation, 1955-1958.
Advisory board School Mathematics Study Group, 1962-1964. Member of New York State Advisory Council Graduate Education, 1962-1972, Commn.Humanities, 1963-1964, National Science Board, 1964-1970. Chairman Council Graduate Schools in the United States, 1970.
Member executive committee, trustee Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Trustee Charles Babbage Institute for History of Information Processing. Board directors Associated Hospital Service New York, 1962-1975, Lenox Hill Neighborhood Association, 1976-1981, Health Services Improvement Fund (New York Blue Cross-Blue Shield), 1974-1983, Science Institute for Math and Society, since 1986.
Visiting committee College University Chicago, 1973-1985. Board visitors City University of New York Graduate School and University Center. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (director 1957-1960, 66-72, chairman board directors 1972, president-elect 1970, president 1971), New York Academy of Sciences.
Member American Mathematics Society (trustee 1955-1959), Mathematics Association American (Second vice president 1963-1965, recipient 1st award for distinguished service to mathematics), Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (director Institute for Mathematics and Society 1973-1986), Cosmopolitan Club, Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa (member triennial council united chapters 1940-1946, senator 1970-1988), Pi Mu Epsilon.
Married Leopold Brahdy, June 24, 1955 (deceased November 1977).