These days Sneha Mitra, PhD, spends a lot of time thinking about T cells — a type of white blood cell that helps protect the body from infection and cancer. A postdoctoral fellow at the Sloan ...

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"We're just not getting students into the pipeline," says Naomi Fisher, codirector of Mathematicians and Education Reform (MER), a four-year-old center at the University of Illinois at Chicago, which ...

WE publish in this issue an article by A. Erdelyi add John Todd, entitled “Advanced Instruction on Practical Mathematics”, which follows an earlier article by D. H. Sadler and John Todd (Nature of Ma, ...

There was nothing cool about being a nerd until quants came along. At Rutgers Business School, we’ve helped to foster the coolness factor by graduating hundreds of students from our highly ranked ...

What do you get when you have Silicon Valley’s best and brightest sitting before you, elbow-to-elbow with Hollywood moguls, New York elite, and some incredibly cool Bostonians (along with a thousand ...