I recently came across one of the many reports published by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM): this report, released last year, is titled “Transforming Undergraduate STEM Education: Supporting Equitable and Effective Teaching.”
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For any admitted students reading this article: Welcome to Stevens! As you begin your college journey (hopefully as a Duck!) I thought I would write this week’s column in a style more like “vintage” submissions from For Math’s Sake’s early days (now almost three years ago).
While I by no means expected my previous column to generate a groundswell of global antiwar sentiment, I have been left saddened and furious at another outbreak of war targeted at Iran and quickly radiating to many other parts of the Middle East.
February 24 marked the four year anniversary of a full-scale invasion that Russia launched on Ukraine. As of writing, the fighting there continues without an end in sight.
I once again have the chance to write a For Math’s Sake column in the Valentine’s Day issue, which is a good opportunity to showcase the connections mathematics has with love and relationships, or share about how cultivating love for an at-times challenging and painfully frustrating subject can help in other areas of life.
As we begin a new semester following a hopefully restful winter break, I have been thinking about the various concepts of stability, a term often used in mathematics and invoked to describe many aspects of life more generally.
To close out the semester, here is a conversation I had with fellow math PhD student Michael Catli. Michael and I both started the PhD in Fall 2023, although I knew him slightly before that, via a mutual friend at Seton Hall University, where Michael completed his undergraduate studies.
Many of us at Stevens have taken, are taking, or will take a course that involves fluid dynamics. These courses tend to be on the more challenging end, because fluids can behave in immensely complex ways, and it’s difficult even experimentally to understand this behavior, let alone build mathematical models to govern it or computational techniques to simulate it.
This past weekend, I traveled up to Boston for the first time, and visited some very good friends from my undergrad days at Stevens.
As a mathematician who tries to keep up with politics regularly, it may come as a surprise that I am not a huge fan of political polling.