“Everything I do is with chocolate,” says Haroon Malak, Global Chocolate Senior Scientist and Radiation Safety Officer at Mars, the company that makes M&Ms®, Snickers®, Dove® 3M® and Twix® bars, …
Helena Kauppila
“When I include science in my work, I include it because I want to zoom out,” says Artist Helena Kauppila, a mathematician. She’s fascinated by large, complicated systems, from relationships in …
Incorporation, Nanotechnology, Educator Surveys … and Beyond
Math4Science, Inc. is now officially incorporated in the State of New York, thanks to the efforts of Vladimir Yelizarov of O’Melveny & Myers, who came to us by way of New York Lawyers for the …
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Inspiring our students (a note from M4S founder Justine Henning)
A senior in high school (let’s call him Tom) arrived at my home this evening, shortly after failing his calculus final. His mother had contacted me, hoping that I would help him pass a re-test. We had …
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Janet Hollingsworth
If you could make anything at all, to make your life or someone else’s life easier or more fun, what would you make? Imagine your teacher writing two names on the board after the final …
Jeanne Altmann
Behavioral Ecologist Jeanne Altmann the baboons of Africa. What's the coolest animal you have seen? How can a scientist get close enough to a group of animals to observe and record …
Jerome D. McQueen, P.E.
Environmental Engineer Jerome D. McQueen designs systems to clean up pollution created by planes, factories, and other things that produce waste. What forms of pollution (in the air, soil, or …
Jill Venton
Have you worked with fruit flies in science class or spotted these very small insects flying around ripe bananas or other fruit? Imagine the size of a fruit fly’s brain. How would you measure …
John Hoogland
Have you ever crawled through a tunnel at the zoo and popped up through a hole in the ground, pretending you're a prairie dog? Real prairie dogs dig complex systems of underground tunnels. Their …
Jordan Ellenberg
Arithmetic Geometer Jordan Ellenberg is a mathematician. He teaches his college students how to create codes, using math. Have you ever made up a secret code and used it? How did it work? Who did …
