Author: Jennifer Johnson-Leung

Simple Transmission Networks: A Student Project

 My name is Neha Deosthali and I am a junior at the Liberal Arts and Science Academy in Austin, Texas. During the initial stages of this pandemic, I got interested in how the virus spreads through a community and wanted to learn more about the SARS-CoV-2 Virus. Thanks to Dr. Spencer Fox and Dr. Lauren …

IMCI welcomes Lauren Ancel Meyers

I am very excited that Lauren Ancel Meyers will be speaking to us about her work today as part of the IMCI/IBEST seminar series. Lauren is a highly decorated researcher whose thinking around network-based disease modeling has been extremely influential. During the current pandemic, she established the COVID-19 modeling consortium at the University of Texas …

Test again? Yes!

The University of Idaho is offering testing on an ongoing basis to students, faculty and staff. So you might be wondering whether you should get tested again, and when you should do it. If you traveled for Labor Day weekend, or had contacts with individuals outside of your usual network, you should seek one of …

Here We Are, Idaho

I’ll start by introducing myself: I have been a mathematics professor at the University of Idaho since 2007. My primary research area is number theory, a beautiful and esoteric subject which asks deceptively simple questions about the symmetries of numbers and possible relationships between them. (If you have a spare hour, here is a video …