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Mathematics team receives grant for High Performance Computing cluster. Mathematics professors Olcay Akman and Papa Sissokho have received a grant for a minicluster to use for computing-intensive modeling research. [Read the rest]

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Video: Black Colleagues scholarship helps future teacher. Freshman Daniel Jackson wants to be the best teacher he can be, so he chose Illinois State. Last fall Jackson was awarded one of several scholarships offered by the Black Colleagues Association. [Read the rest]

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Video: ISU math robots help cancer clinic kids. Ph.D. student Megan Nickels wants to know how children with cancer and other chronic illness can learn math through educational robotics. [Read the rest]

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A biologist and a statistician walk into a bar…. Mathematics Professor Olcay Akman’s research interests recently took him to the Florida Everglades, where he used his data analysis and modeling knowledge for cross-disciplinary research. [Read the rest]