MCS

Month: August 2019

  • September Problems of the Month

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    jsiehler

    Congratulations to last year’s top solvers: Filip Belik and James Wittrig! Once again, we’ll be hosting “Problems of the Month” throughout the fall semester, and we invite everyone throughout the college to take part! Students, faculty, and staff are all welcome to submit solutions, and there are prizes for the top student solvers during the…

  • MCS Summer Research: Altruistic Suicide in E. Coli Bacteria

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    anienow2

    Over the summer Dr. Jeff Ford and Sanjeeda Shutrishna are working on a project to study the evolution of altruistic suicide in E. coli bacteria. The bacteria employ a strategy where, when the colony encounters a pathogen, some bacteria will self-destruct before the pathogen can spread.  Dr. Ford and Shutrishna are attempting to use network…