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William “Brit” Kirwan, a nationally recognized authority on mathematics reform and other critical issues facing higher education, presented a lecture on how universities can enhance and equalize student success to prepare them for the 21st century.

A new way of looking at how pollutants travel has quadrupled the estimate of global lung cancer risk from a pollutant caused by combustion.

Congratulations to these 26 science graduate students who won 2017 Ford Fellowships!

Mathematician Mary Beisiegel (BS ’96) receives national award for distinguished teaching from the Mathematical Association of America.

Microbiologist Andrew Thurber has co-authored a study which warns the deep ocean floor may face starvation and sweeping ecological change by the year 2100.

Data-driven marketer and entrepreneur Kristin Luck will discuss one of the fastest-growing fields--data analytics--and its evolving role in industry and what it means for the statisticians.

Elise Lockwood, assistant professor of mathematics, receives a five-year $800K National Science Foundation CAREER Award.

Incentive-based solutions offer significant hope for addressing the myriad environmental challenges facing the world’s oceans.

Chemists develop new type battery with promise for sustainable, high-power energy storage.

George Poinar, Jr. has had a long and storied career studying strange creatures from 100 million years ago preserved in amber.

A new study reveals nearly 3% of people infected with Ebola in the 2014-15 epidemic were "super spreaders," responsible for infecting 61% of all cases.

"Microbiomes: To See the Unseen" is a groundbreaking exhibit that brings art into one of the hottest areas of scientific research: the microbiome.