Mathematical Sciences

Two Alzheimer’s drugs tested head-to-head in first-ever virtual clinical trial
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A team including researchers from Penn State investigated two potential Alzheimer’s drugs in a virtual trial.

Graduate Student Connects Math with Green Advocacy
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Raymond Friend outside

 

Graduate student Raymond Friend advances sustainability, including through the college’s first-ever greenhouse gas inventory.

Low grades in intro STEM courses may disproportionally deter minority students

Low grades in intro STEM courses have a larger negative impact on underrepresented students' likelyhood of earning a STEM degree.

Statistics department to host free public lecture on college admissions ‘clustering’
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Penn State statistics professor David Hunter
Summer workshops focus on artificial intelligence in science
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Penn State ICDS faculty members assisted with several summer learning experiences this year.

Seed grants to fund projects that tackle huge scientific, societal challenges
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ICDS 2022 seed grant graphic

Three teams from the Penn State Eberly College of Science have received ICDS seed grants.

Penn State Learning honors outstanding Guided Study Group Leaders
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Han and Powderly

Two Eberly undergraduates have received Outstanding Guided Study Group Leader Awards in 2022.

Science Journal Spotlight: Preprofessional Programs in the Eberly College of Science
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Science Journal Hero 2022 Issue 1.

Issue 1 of the 2022 Science Journal is explores the impact of several of the preprofessional and integrated degree programs in the Penn Stat

Theory and Application
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Nicole Lazar

Penn State statistician Nicole Lazar studies theoretical foundations of statistical inference and applies them to the analysis of functional

Math professor awarded Brin Prize in Dynamical Systems
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Zhiren Wang

Zhiren Wang, associate professor of mathematics at Penn State, has been award the eleventh Brin Prize in Dynamical Systems

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