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Wrapping Up the Semester: Linear Algebra Poster Session

My department likes to use projects in its courses, and while I’ve assigned them in lower-level courses, I’ve never had upper-level students do a research project before. I was nervous about turning my class loose on a project without a … Continue reading

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Talking Math at Graterford Prison

Last week I gave a very unusual math talk. It was at Graterford Prison, a maximum-security men’s prison in the Philadelphia area, and my colleague Katie Haymaker and I were there to talk about math. Villanova runs a degree-granting program at … Continue reading

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Changing My Inbox Changed My Life

Like a lot of people, I have a real love-hate relationship with Google. For every Gmail (a whole gig of storage in 2005?!?) there’s an equal and opposite Wave (just ?!?). So when Google Inbox launched last year, I was … Continue reading

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