Madeleine Kerr was a double major in physics and theater at Harvey Mudd College and studied acting at a London conservatory ...

“I love Venus,” she says. “It’s Earth’s evil twin.” The two planets are about the same size, but the differences are stark.

Joy Kitson’s path to predicting how pandemics spread began toward the end of her freshman year at the University of Delaware. That summer, while interpreting soil moisture data from satellites to help ...

Notable program alum Amanda Randles models blood circulation — and is a role model for beginning scientists. Amanda Randles is the Alfred Winborne and Victoria Stover Mordecai associate professor of ...

Much of mathematics involves so-called forward problems. These problems begin with a model of a physical system — say, a ball rolling down an incline plane — and researchers use parameters, such as ...

You could excuse Abigail Poteshman for taking a meandering path during her scientific career. While still in high school, she joined her first lab to conduct cancer cell experiments. Now, on the verge ...

A Georgia Tech fellow models renewable energy and other problems with ever-changing unknowns. Real-world modeling problems are rife with uncertainty and complicated interactions. To maximize profits, ...

Environmental scientist Marianne Cowherd grew up in Michigan and loved snow. “My favorite thing was having school cancelled and going sledding,” she says. “But I never thought of snow as a water ...

When Harvard University Ph.D. candidate Rahul Sahay was in high school, he watched a documentary on quantum mechanics and became fascinated by the bizarre universe it suggested. He took a lot of math ...

A Montana State fellow charts a path from physics and modeling to a form of pure math called category theory. Alex Ballow works as a translator, not of human tongues but of the languages of math and ...

Materials scientist Luis Rangel DaCosta is applying machine learning methods to speed analyzing high-resolution images. The work fits Rangel DaCosta’s quest to understand puzzling phenomena. “When ...

A UT Austin-based fellow blends physics and advanced computing to reveal cosmic rays’ role in stellar events. Like many aspiring astronomers, a young Margot Fitz Axen grew even more fascinated by the ...