Mina Rees was born on August 2, 1902 in Cleveland, Ohio.
Ms. Rees earned her BA from Hunter College in 1923 and her MA from Columbia University in 1925. She received her Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of Chicago in 1931.
She served as a presidential appointee to the board of the National Science Foundation from 1964 to 1970. In 1970, she was the Chairman of the Council of Graduate Schools in the United States. She was the first woman president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1971.
She was provost for the graduate division at the City University of New York from 1968-1969 and president of the Graduate School and University Center from 1969 until her retirement in 1972.
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