Mathematics
Math Students Search for Answers to Help Newport News Partners
Friday, March 08, 2019
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Does the way a city grows affect how quickly firefighters get to a blaze Can you reduce crime by changing how a neighborhood is zoned? How do you model a ship’s piping system so engineers can easily test variations in flow?
Christopher ...
Alumni Spotlight: Mitchell Kerver
Tuesday, September 04, 2018
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Mitchell Kerver ’17 is one of four winners of a Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) Fellowship. Jefferson Lab is a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science national laboratory. During the ...
Cracking the Code
Thursday, August 09, 2018
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The birthplace of the atomic bomb may seem like an unconventional summer destination, but for a programmer like Andrew Garmon ’13, it’s exactly where he wants to be. Through the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Science ...
Jessica Kelly Awarded Mathematical Association of America Grant
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
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The Mathematical Association of America has awarded Dr. Jessica Kelly, assistant professor of mathematics, a grant through its Preparation for Industrial Careers in the Mathematical Sciences program. The program, which is funded by the National ...
Research Spotlight: Spirit Karcher
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
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Name Spirit Karcher
Hometown Fredericksburg, Virginia
Major Mathematics
Graduation Year 2018
Faculty Mentor Dr. Jessica Kelly
Spirit Karcher was awarded the second place prize for best undergraduate presentation at the MD-DC-VA sectional ...
Research Spotlight: Isaac Woods
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
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Name Isaac Woods
Hometown Salem, Virginia
Major Mathematics
Graduation Year 2018
Faculty Mentor Dr. James Kelly, Mathematics
Isaac Woods published "Chaotic Dynamics in a Family of Set-valued Functions," in the Minnesota Journal of ...
Alumni Profile: Courtney Duquette
Monday, January 29, 2018
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Duquette’s advancement in the computer science field is significant not just for her impressive skills, but also in light of the statistical odds against her. In 2015, a survey done by The Huffington Post reported that women held only ...
A Captain's Viewpoint: On Service
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
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Ever since I was little, I have been serving others. An outreach program called Reaching Our City Kids here in Newport News shaped my views on service. My mother was director of the program, and my brother, sister and I worked by her side. It was ...
PCSE Student Chosen for Summer Research Program at CERN
Tuesday, May 03, 2016
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Junior physics major Mitchell Kerver has been selected for an undergraduate research fellowship at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) this summer in Geneva. CERN is one of the ...