Editor's note: 'University News' would like to thank the author, Madalyn Weston, for the 66 articles that she has contributed to the Celebrating Women in STEM column over the past few years, and we'd like to congratulate her on her graduation. Math: one of the most hated...

The American Medical Association (AMA) is the largest organization of physicians and medical students in the United States. Founded in 1847, the AMA’s responsibilities range from naming generic drugs to publishing medical research. They launched the war on smoking in the 1970s...

 Dwarf planets have been on everyone's mind since the demotion of Pluto in 2006, but there is another dwarf planet much closer to home: Ceres.  Ceres hangs out in the Asteroid Belt just beyond Mars and was visited in 2015 by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, the first spacecraft...

African lions are one of the most popular animals at the local zoo, but this species is in danger in the wild. Lions are classified as vulnerable by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, mostly due to loss of food sources and habitats, retaliation killings...

When you hear the words “noncommutative algebra,” you’re probably not thinking, “Wow! That sounds like my dream job!” This special branch of mathematics examines how the order of multiplying two functions changes the outcome of the problem and has applications in quantum...