Monthly Archives: April 2014

New NIMBioS Postdocs Announced

Posted on April 16, 2014 by Catherine Crawley

Congratulations to the newly selected NIMBioS postdoctoral fellows arriving this summer. Jake Ferguson is currently a doctoral student in biology at the Univ. of Florida. Ferguson’s project at NIMBioS will be to model the role of seasonality of ecological populations. … Continue reading →

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Prizes for Young Scientists: Mold Growth and an App Predicting Seizures

Posted on April 14, 2014 by admin

Congratulations to this year’s winners of the Junior and Senior NIMBioS Prizes for Research at the Interface of Mathematics and Biology, presented annually at the Southern Appalachian Science Engineering Fair, held at the Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville. This year’s Junior … Continue reading →

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Women in Math Focus of Workshop

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Catherine Crawley

Women comprise less than a quarter of the STEM workforce in the US, and they are most likely to leave those jobs compared to men. The story is not much different on the nation’s campuses, where more than half of STEM … Continue reading →

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Poverty and Disease Explored in Essay

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Catherine Crawley

Former postdoctoral fellow Calistus Ngonghala’s essay examining poverty and disease is featured this week in PLOS Biology. Ngonghala and his co-authors explore how coupled models of ecology and economic growth can provide key insights into factors driving the formation and persistence … Continue reading →

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