Local Student Participating in Research Program at Texas Tech
For immediate release July 7, 2006

GREENVILLE, PA – Ronald Anderson, a rising Thiel College senior from Conneaut, Ohio, is currently participating in a National Science Foundation summer research program at Texas Tech University.

The National Science Foundation awarded $171,000 for Texas Tech’s eight-week Multidisciplinary Summer Undergraduate Research program in Computation and Control of Biological and Biologically Inspired Systems.
Anderson, a mathematics and computer science major and physics minor at Thiel, is one of eight undergraduates from across the nation who is researching how math can be applied to biology.

The program, being held June 5 to July 28, will provide participants with a unique experience of how mathematics can be applied to understand the qualitative and quantitative behavior of a biological or bio-like system. It will also include a lecture series, a mentoring club, guest colloquium, student seminars, computational laboratory, and scientific and social tours.