Encyclopedia of UNCG History
An online resource for exploring the history of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro
mathematics
Cornelia Strong
Cornelia Strong was a professor of mathematics at the Woman’s College (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) from 1905, until her retirement in 1948. Though a native of South Carolina, Strong attended college at Cornell University in New York, and received her B.A. in mathematics in 1903. After teaching for two years at […]
Ione Grogan
Ione Grogan was a mathematics professor and residence hall counsel in the Coit and Weil dormitories at the Woman’s College (now UNCG) from 1935 to 1958. Born in Reidsville, North Carolina in 1895, she received two A.B. degrees from the Woman’s College, one in English in 1913 and a second one in mathematics in 1926. […]
Virginia Ragsdale
Virginia Ragsdale was a professor of mathematics at the Woman’s College (later the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) from 1911 until her retirement in 1928. She was one of the most famous and distinguished mathematicians of her generation. Ragsdale is best known as the creator of the “Ragsdale Conjecture,” a theory concerning algebraic curves, […]
Virginia Tucker (Class of 1930)
Virginia Layden “Ginna” Tucker of Hertford, NC, was a North Carolina College for Women (NCCW, now UNCG) graduate whose pioneering work in aeronautics and mechanical engineering paved a path for women in STEM fields. Through her work for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA, now NASA) to her research at Northrop Aviation Corporation to […]