Why did you choose to double major in math? Coming into Drexel, I knew that I did not want to graduate with only one bachelor's degree. Along with the huge investment and time commitment, I felt that ...

Sandra Zuniga hated math for the most part of her school years. Her peers and teachers would not associate this with her because she has always excelled academically, especially in math. Zuniga is now ...

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Kimberly Sellers says that one of her most vivid memories from childhood is of helping her father, every year, track the number of African Americans graduating with doctorates from American ...

Baltimore Ravens offensive lineman John Urschel is 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighs 305 pounds—but his brain may be more intimidating than his bulk. The 24-year-old, who already holds two math degrees, ...

After graduating with a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in the U.S., a Vietnamese man who won gold medal of the 2013 International Math Olympiad has chosen to return to his ...

Half of all recent M.D.s are women and nearly half of all recent Ph.Ds in biology are women. So are the majority of new psychologists (67%), veterinarians (75%) and dentists (70%). But why are so few ...

Something about playing professional football does not add up anymore for Baltimore Ravens offensive lineman John Urschel. On Thursday, just two days after a new study revealed increasing evidence ...

After Edward O. Thorp devised a mathematical way to win at gambling, he turned his attention to beating Wall Street — “ the greatest casino on earth.” (Gary Thompson/AP) Margaret Wertheim is a science ...

Why did you choose to double major in math? Coming into Drexel, I knew that I did not want to graduate with only one bachelor's degree. Along with the huge investment and time commitment, I felt that ...