Using mathematical and scientific methods to study the natural world
Genetics. Chemistry. Engineering. Research. Biostatistics. Hydrology. Education. Practice of Medicine. These are just a few of the fields that are open to students in the Integrated Math & Science (IMS) major. IMS is designed for students who want to have a meaningful impact on the world through science, technology, and/or medicine. The IMS major trains students to think empirically about the world around us and to apply a biblical worldview to the natural sciences.
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Mike Jackson teaches biology. His research focuses on the real-world impact of vaccination programs, including questions of vaccine effectiveness, vaccine safety, and underlying pathogen transmission dynamics. He has operated active surveillance systems for influenza, built mathematical models of Neisseria meningitidis transmission in Africa, and developed novel methods for studying vaccine effectiveness in human populations. Dr. Jackson has over 140 papers published in the biomedical literature. In addition, he has worked in applied public health at both the local and federal levels and has worked as an epidemiologist on the data science teams of several health tech start-ups.
Tracey McGrath teaches courses in physics and advanced math. She holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University in Computational Geophysical Fluid Dynamics. Dr. McGrath has an impressive educational background including teaching at both CalTech and Harvard University. Dr. McGrath has also created mathematical and economic models for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
Daniel Maienshein is a Pennsylvania native who majored in both chemistry and mathematics at Grove City College. He began graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh, doing research with professors Peng Liu (computational organic chemistry reaction mechanistic studies) and Sanford Asher (photoacoustic instrument design and improvement of silica nanoparticle production). He finished his graduate studies in the mathematics department at the University of Pittsburgh, specializing in analysis and partial differential equations under the oversight of Juan Manfredi (viscosity solutions to a novel class of nonlinear equations). Daniel currently teaches math and chemistry courses at Patrick Henry College.
