When West Virginia University’s administration proposed nixing the college’s graduate programs in mathematics this summer, resistance to the recommendation cropped up almost instantly. Critics ...

an annual stipend of $30,000 for 9 month, with an anticipated increase in later years; summer research opportunities carrying a supplement of $6,000; winter and summer teaching opportunities with ...

One recent afternoon in Cambridge, Mass., John Urschel and I strolled along the Charles River on the way to his office at MIT, where he’s pursuing a Ph.D. in mathematics. We were passing some of the ...

For decades, the number of Black students pursuing STEM degrees has been increasing nationally, but in the 1960s in UT Austin graduate programs, it was a different story. The small group of African ...