What exactly is Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) and how does it work? Assistant Professor of Mathematics Brendan Sullivan, Ph.D. brings the concept of an “election” back to its basics, explains the difference between a plurality and a majority, and offers a step-by-step breakdown of how RCV determines the winner of a political election (or, just what a group of friends actually wants for dinner).

Brianna Wiseman '15 began her first year at Emmanuel with her mind set on becoming a teacher. So how, years later, did her path lead to Fidelity Investments and her current position as a Deployment Analyst?

Propelled by a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, students and faculty in the Mathematics Department are studying the rate of evolution in spatially structured populations using evolutionary graph theory, which may inform the estimation of important events in our evolutionary past, such as when humans split from our closest primate relatives.