College of Arts and Sciences

Our very own, Professor David Gurarie and MAMS alumna Dr. Nara Yoon, were featured in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS).  Established in 1914, PNAS publishes cutting-edge research, science news, commentaries, perspectives, colloquium papers, reviews, and actions of the National Academy of Sciences.  Drs. Yoon and Gurarie’s research, Impact and Cost-Effectiveness of Snail Control to Achieve Disease Control Targets for Schistosomiasis, modeled transmission of schistosomiasis and cost-effectiveness of various strategies with data from low- and high-prevalence rural Kenyan communities.

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Professor Peter Thomas was appointed co-Editor-in-Chief of the Springer Journal Biological Cybernetics (effective January 1, 2018).  Biological Cybernetics (originally named Kybernetik) was founded in 1961 as “A Journal Dealing with the Transmission and Processing of Information as well as with Control Processes in both Animals and Automata.” The name took inspiration from the work of visionary mathematician Norbert Wiener, who coined the term “cybernetics” and was among the journal’s founding editors.   The journal continues a tradition of publishing rigorous, quantitative theoretical investigations of biological systems, both in computational neuroscience and other areas of theoretical and systems biology.

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