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Speed Diagnosis for Sepsis
The current methods for detecting bacterial infection in the blood and whether those bacteria are resistant to common antibiotics can sometimes take an entire day—which is more time than a patient with sepsis can afford.
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Understanding the Fastest Route Between Four Points is as Simple as Playing with Soap Bubbles
In BYU Magazine’s new YouTube video series, “A Thing of Beauty,” BYU professors and personalities sharing something they consider beautiful. Mathematics professor and Department Chair Michael Dorff appreciates the “lovely harmony between soap bubbles and mathematics.” Click here to watch Michael Dorff share the beauty of soap bubbles.
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Jani Radebaugh gathers information from Pluto
Jani Radebaugh, a planetary scientist in the Department of Geological Sciences, shares her most recent discovery of the mysterious Pluto and its Earth-like qualities with BYU. She says, “there’s a wealth of information in the distant reaches of the solar system, too.” Read more.
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Playing with Swarms
Hearing Dr. Michael Goodrich talk about his research in human-robot interaction, you might not realize that he works at all.
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Chevron Phillips Chemical teams up with BYU researchers to speed up catalyst development
Chemical companies are currently racing to develop new catalysts that efficiently produce key commodity chemicals used in the manufacture of plastics. Dr. Daniel Ess and his graduate students developed a computer model to identify new catalysts. Read more about it at BYU News.
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Understanding Autism – Shannon Tass
When Professor Shannon Tass was a graduate student she focused her statistics research on cancer. Why? Because she wanted to make a difference.
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Using Math to Understand Your World—And Your Neighbor
Like all math teachers, Professor Kate Johnson of the Mathematics Education Department studies variables. The variables that Johnson examines, however, usually don’t show up on the page.
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How Three Numbers Can Save 130,000 Lives
The Indian Ocean tsunami that rocked Indonesia on December 26, 2004, shook the ground beneath the locals’ feet for eight whole minutes. Thirteen years later, Dr. Ron Harris is still shaken.
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Dorff named head of Math Association of America
Michael Dorff takes the reins today as the Math Association of America’s (MAA) president-elect. Read more on BYU News.
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The Football Team Full of Ph.Ds
A decade ago, a grad student at the University of Texas told her roommate that she dreamed of teaching at BYU and starting an all-women’s faculty flag football team.
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A Master, A Teacher, A Leader
Teaching has always had a huge impact on BYU physics professor Duane Merrell—an impact that has both affected his life and guided his career and passion for teaching physics.
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Training Computers, Helping Humans
A trio of BYU profs plans to use top NSF award to revolutionize digital capabilities
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Doing the Math to Handle Heartbreak Hill
BYU Adjunct Statistics Professor Jared Ward had a top-10 finish at Monday’s Boston Marathon. Leading up to the race, Ward’s running research prepared him for the notorious course.
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The Science That Enables Other Sciences
Lithography, computer chips, and electron microscopes all need particle accelerators. Accelerators are scientific tools that use beams of charged particles to investigate particle physics. But there is a need for accelerators to be cheaper and brighter, and BYU is exploring how.
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BYU chemistry professor trains police on critical thinking
Provo Police Chief John King never planned on partnering with a chemistry professor to teach critical thinking courses. That is, until BYU’s Brian Woodfield approached King and asked if Woodfield could train Provo City Police.
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BYU’s Fastest Stats Professor Achieves Olympic Dreams
Jared Ward began to doubt his ability to finish his Olympic Trials marathon run as the unforgiving Los Angeles heat bore down on him towards the end of the race.
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Mathematics Professor Awarded for Great Research
With about six to seven research projects in his queue each year, Dr. Pace Nielsen in the BYU Department of Mathematics has made waves in the mathematics community. One of his most recent projects was a massive collaboration (unusual in mathematics) with a number of world-class researchers, studying the spacing of prime numbers. They proved there are infinitely many pairs of primes within 246 integers of each other.
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Neilsen Balances Family, Research, Classes, and Receives Award
Dr. Tracianne Neilsen has spent many years trying to find a balance between family, mentoring students in acoustics, and teaching physics. After 12 years at BYU, Neilsen received the BYU Adjunct Faculty Excellence Award at the Annual University Conference in recognition for her outstanding contribution to the Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the University. The award is given to a part-time faculty member who has demonstrated excellence in teaching or in other professional responsibilities over a period of at least five years.
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