The Association for Women in Mathematics and the Mathematical Association of America annually present the Etta Z. Falconer Lectures to honor women who have made distinguished contributions to the mathematical sciences or mathematics education. These one-hour expository lectures are presented at MathFest each summer. While the lectures began with MathFest 1996, the title "Etta Z. Falconer Lecture" was established in 2004 in memory of Falconer's profound vision and accomplishments in enhancing the movement of minorities and women into scientific careers. The Falconer Lecturers have been:
- 1996 Karen E. Smith, MIT, "Calculus mod p"
- 1997 Suzanne M. Lenhart, University of Tennessee, "Applications of Optimal Control to Various Population Models"
- 1998 Margaret H. Wright, Bell Labs, "The Interior-Point Revolution in Constrained Optimization"
- 1999 Chuu-Lian Terng, Northeastern University, "Geometry and Visualization of Surfaces"
- 2000 Audrey Terras, University of California at San Diego, "Finite Quantum Chaos"
- 2001 Pat Shure, University of Michigan, "The Scholarship of Learning and Teaching: A Look Back and a Look Ahead"
- 2002 Annie Selden, Tennessee Technological University, "Two Research Traditions Separated by a Common Subject: Mathematics and Mathematics Education"
- 2003 Katherine P. Layton, Beverly Hills High School, "What I Learned in Forty Years in Beverly Hills 90212"
- 2004 Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, University of Kansas "Mathematics Education of Tomorrow"
- 2005 Fern Hunt, National Institute of Standards and Technology, "Techniques for Visualizing Frequency Patterns in DNA"
- 2006 Trachette Jackson, University of Michigan, "Cancer Modeling: From the Classical to the Contemporary"
- 2007 Katherine St. John, City University of New York, "Comparing Evolutionary Trees"
- 2008 Rebecca Goldin, George Mason University, "The Use and Abuse of Statistics in the Media"
- 2009 Kate Okikiolu, "The Sum of Squares of Wavelengths of a Closed Surface"
- 2010 Ami Radunskaya, Pomona College, "Mathematical Challenges in the Treatment of Cancer"
- 2011 Dawn Lott, Delaware State University "Mathematical Interventions for Aneurysm Treatment"