Conservation Ecologist Rae Wynn-Grant studies carnivores. She traps bears in order to learn about them. Then she releases them back into the wild. What's the most dangerous animal you have seen? …
Renee Fatemi
“This is where you’re going to lose your grade point average,” warned Nuclear Physicist Renee Fatemi’s friends as she entered her junior year. “I loved literature and I loved religion and …
Rob Hart
Experimental Physicist Robert Hart’s curiosity about music and how violins work led him to pour glitter on plates. And his friend’s curiosity about how a marble would move if you drop it onto a saddle …
Ryan Venturelli
Did you know that some archaea (one-celled forms of life) can survive in extremely hot and extremely acidic environments? They have been found living at 113 degrees Celsius (235 degrees Fahrenheit: …
Sara Bushmann
Applied Entomologist Sara Bushmann studies bees and other pollinators — bugs that help plants grow. What's your favorite kind of insect? Why? Without bees, bumblebees, and other …
School’s Out for Summer but M4S is Just Getting Started
If you’ve been browsing the site, you may have noticed a few recent additions. We’re in the process of adding the Math4Science Board of Directors to our team page. We couldn’t be prouder to welcome …
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Scott Tremaine
Throughout the Milky Way galaxy, planets orbit hundreds of millions of stars other than the Sun. And in galaxies beyond our own, stars orbit enormous black holes millions or even billions of times the …
Sean Gibbons
Microbes – or microorganisms: creatures so small you can’t see them – are everywhere. Some of them live on the surfaces of almost everything you touch. Others also live on and inside of you, from the …
Steven Strogatz
SWARMSOFSYNCHRONOUSLYFLASHINGFIREFLIES Poetry? Well, yes, and also one of the ways Applied Mathematician Steven Strogatz describes his work. The author of Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos in …
T.J. Eatmon
Environmental Scientist T.J. Eatmon helped students at Allegheny College create a system that can grow some of their cafeteria food. What's your favorite food? Do you know how its made or where it …
