Mathematics Awareness Month 2016
April is Mathematics Awareness Month. The goal of Mathematics Awareness Month is to increase public understanding of and appreciation for mathematics. Please come and join us for our mathematics awareness celebration from 3 until 4:30 on Wednesday, April 13, 2016, in 208 Maxim Doucet Hall.
You will get to meet and mingle with mathematics faculty and students. You will enjoy a brief presentation entitled "Frogs and Cancer and Patents! Oh My! Setting Your Career on a Yellow Brick Road with Math" by Seth Boudreaux, associate director of UL Lafayette’s Office of Innovation Management. And, you will join us and our students for pizza, snacks, and other refreshments.
Everyone is invited -- Come find out why we are excited about mathematics and why we think you should be too!
Frogs and Cancer and Patents! Oh My!
Setting Your Career on a Yellow Brick Road with Math
Dr. Seth Boudreaux
Associate Director of the UL Lafayette Office of Innovation Management
In the era of Google, omics and the internet-of-things, data streams are all around us - be it medicine, business, government or social media.
The challenge now and in the future is distilling the useful bits to empower intelligence, action and prediction. Please join us for a short
presentation and conversation with Dr. Seth Boudreaux as he discusses how an education in mathematics can serve as a robust platform
for your career ambitions, as viewed through the lens of his career in biomathematics, biomedical science and intellectual property management.
Dr. Seth Boudreaux is the associate director of UL Lafayette’s Office of Innovation Management and acting scientific officer of UL Lafayette’s New
Iberia Research Center. Seth earned a PhD in molecular and biomedical sciences from Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, TX) where he
researched the genetic underpinnings of cancer, discovered new therapeutic strategies for leukemia, and invented novel methodologies for
breaking unbreakable glassware. Seth earned a BS in Mathematics from UL Lafayette, and when he wasn’t tagging frogs or modeling their
population dynamics with partial differential equations, he was stressing over Dr. Gallo’s organic chemistry tests and the MCAT.