A University of Iowa professor of mathematical sciences who retired this past Wednesday is being awarded what’s considered ...

The gauntlet has been thrown down. Last week, fellow columnist Andrew Horton wrote about problems in the University’s mathematics department … my department. He spoke of archaic teaching methods and ...

URBANA, Ill. (AP) -- University of Illinois Professor John Sullivan has made art prints and avant-garde video and lately he's into sculpture. They invite him to talk about his work in Europe (France, ...

Fourteen years ago, the UI began to honor Sonia Kovalevsky, a Russian female mathematician who attempted to defy the odds of female representation in STEM-related areas in the 1800s. The event has ...

URBANA — Here's the task: Color a map of the United States so that no two adjacent states have the same color. What's the least amount of colors you would need? The answer to that question took ...

Coming to the fifth-ranked engineering school in the nation, I expected an equally strong math department to complement it. What I experienced was quite the contrary. While I can’t speak for the ...