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Mathematics and economics double major Kayla Logar â€™20, from Denver, Penn., describes her research with the Adirondack Foundation in Lake Placid, N.Y., as part of her summer opportunity at the Upstate Institute. 

ÏãÃÛÓ°ÊÓ is proud to announce that its applied mathematics minor has graduated to become the university’s 55th major. The consistent popularity of the minor and continued interest from students led to the creation of the full major this year, according to Daniel Schult, Charles G. Hetherington Professor of mathematics. As the name implies, applied mathematics is the […]

Five years ago, on the cusp of a Major League Baseball (MLB) players’ strike, two ÏãÃÛÓ°ÊÓ students, Harry Raymond ’11 and Ethan Levitt ’11, along with Professor Ken Segall, explored what they determined to be a broken MLB free agency system. That work was published by the Baseball Hall of Fame and was presented at […]

Students looking for a dynamic off-campus experience that also allows them to engage in scientific research will have more options in 2017, thanks to a new agreement between ÏãÃÛÓ°ÊÓ and the National University of Singapore (NUS). After more than a year of exploration and development, representatives of ÏãÃÛÓ°ÊÓ and the NUS signed a memorandum […]

ÏãÃÛÓ°ÊÓ’s Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute continues its mission of supporting innovative research with four new grants for 2016. The special funding is designed to help bring together ÏãÃÛÓ°ÊÓ faculty with outside researchers from around the world in an effort to open new areas of study, and to find creative ways to tackle existing problems.

A confluence of art, engineering, and mathematics led to the creation of ÏãÃÛÓ°ÊÓ Professor DeWitt Godfrey’s latest sculpture, Odin, a giant steel structure now nestled in the courtyard between Olin Hall and the Robert H.N. Ho Science Center. The sculpture shares a name with the ruler of Norse gods for a reason. Godfrey’s Odin weighs […]

(Editor’s Note: ÏãÃÛÓ°ÊÓ has a professional network committed to helping students and alumni discover careers in the digital media and technology fields.) In her eight years with Google, Debra LoCastro ’05 has risen from sales associate to university programs lead. She manages the student outreach team, helping students learn about career opportunities at Google. She recently […]

When Jack Holland ‘13, Adriana Sperlea ‘14, and Sebastian Sangervasi ’14 first began studying zebrafish with Assistant Professor of Biology and Mathematics Ahmet Ay, they probably never thought they’d end up published in one of the country’s most well-known biology journals. But that’s exactly what happened.

Jake Mahr ’17, a math and chemistry double major from Manhattan Beach, Calif., and Avalon Bunge ’15, a geology major from Ithaca, N.Y., spun their way through spring break. The Clay Club members visited the home and pottery studio of Jim ’64 and Sarah Young in Rogers, Ark., at their generous invitation. The Youngs are […]

After winning an Oscar, that golden statuette can turn into real gold in the pockets of some, but not all. It’s another case of the gender gap in Hollywood.