I am so sick and tired of the high-tech employers' whine that schools in the United States are still not turning out enough graduates in math and science.
Also on Tuesday, Representative Zoe Lofgren of California, the highest-ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary subcommittee on immigration, introduced a bill that would expand the number of permanent-resident documents, known as green cards, for foreign students graduating in math and sciences from top research universities.
Mr. Shiffman, however, only recently started considering himself an artist: in his other lives, he is a serious player in the online gaming world (his specialty is "Myth: The Fallen Lords") and is the producing director at P73 Productions Inc., a small New York theater company he started with some friends from Yale, where he graduated in 1995 with a major in math and philosophy.
Majoring in biology and math, she graduated in 1996; a few years later, she got an M.A., in operations research.
Thus inspired, she changed careers and enrolled in math and computer courses at Hunter College, where she graduated in 1997.
(She completed her math credits two years early and she graduated in June).
Len graduated from Indiana University in 1937 with a BA in science and math, then attended Colombia University Dental School where he graduated in 1942 with honors.
When he graduated with degrees in math and philosophy, his mother urged him to try teaching, since he'd always had a talent for simplifying complex ideas.
They had met at the University of Chicago, when he was a graduate student in math and she was an undergraduate.
Ana Caraiani, 23 and a graduate student in math at Harvard, is a two-time Romanian International Olympiad gold medalist.
