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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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, ...

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 ...

Data scientists are fast becoming the rock stars of the 21st century. Thanks in part to Nate Silver's eerily accurate election predictions and Paul DePodesta's baseball-revolutionizing Moneyball ...

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 ...

Are boys innately better at math and science? The question has generated heated debate for decades, with some researchers theorizing that differences in brain activity and hormones give males a ...

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 ...

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 ...