Caroline Smith

If you have ever had any blood work done, you understand the hassle of drawing blood and filling a separate tube for each criterion to be tested, each sample then requiring time-consuming analysis. Imagine, instead, only giving one drop and having your results instantaneously.

The College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences is proud to congratulate Thomas W. Sederberg, an associate dean of the college, for receiving the prestigious Pierre Bézier Award. This award is given by the Solid Modeling Association and is one of the highest honors a person can receive within the geometric modeling community.

Sometimes when scientists encounter complex and vexing problems that require mathematics, they are forced to occasionally bend the rules of math and follow strange steps and solutions that work, but which don’t fully make sense at the time.