As a young art major at Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Dr. Barbara Johnson once stood before blank canvases waiting for inspiration to strike. It arrived instead in a computer lab in 1984 ...

A $2 million National Science Foundation grant will help Arkansas Tech University make science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) degrees more accessible to low-income students. The grant ...

The University of Northern Iowa is launching two new majors in artificial intelligence in its business and liberal arts ...

• Ian Bittinger of Martinez, Georgia, was recognized for earning the Outstanding Student in Engineering Technology Award. He ...

STEM education is thriving across Carle Place Schools, with students at every level engaging in hands-on, inquiry-based ...

Seventeen-year-old Vishnu Kannan’s love for math and problem solving led him to become the founder of a tech startup, which ...

Baez called for the development of new mathematics — he called it “green” math — to better capture the workings of Earth’s biosphere and climate. For his part, he sought to apply category theory, a ...

Discover how quantitative analysts, or quants, use advanced mathematical models to predict market trends and identify lucrative investment opportunities.

Does this sound familiar? You are 45 minutes into your 70-minute math class. One of your high-achieving students—let’s call him Marcus—finishes his math practice before anyone else. On most days, he ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...

Federal data shows post-pandemic student math scores are still down. Maine education officials are responding with a new effort to show students that math has real-world relevance. Federal data ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...