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At the U.S. Open this weekend, Collin Morikawa is one of the American golfers in contention. Supporting him is his wife, Katherine Zhu. “I am very lucky to have her,” Morikawa told Golf ...
It's an old joke that there are three kinds of people in the world: those who are good at math and those who aren't.
Why Does Trump Keep Saying Harvard Teaches Remedial Math? The notion rocketed across social media then jumped to the White House. Harvard says it doesn’t add up.
Romania has elected mathematician Nicusor Dan as its new president. Dan secured 54% of the vote, defeating nationalist George Simion. Dan, a former math prodigy, has been Bucharest's mayor since 2020.
Zhu has had a highly successful writing and editing career at the Daily. “Something I’m rather proud of is forming a strong relationship with the Boston Symphony Orchestra,” she remarked. In the fall ...
After the Fortnite Championship Series Pro-Am 2025 in LA, competitors and fans attended the official Fortnite and Billboard Afterparty with ZHU.
Adding applied math courses is also on the agenda. A new open letter signed by more than 250 company CEOs calls for states to require students to take courses in computer science and artificial ...
Zhu earned the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting along with Banner photojournalist Jessica Gallagher and data specialist Nick Thieme for a multi-part project done published in 2024 with support from ...
Zhu is not the only former News-Leader journalist to win a Pulitzer in recent years. Tony Messenger, metro columnist with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.
Ohio students are struggling with math. What's not adding up? Ohio students are still lagging well behind pre-pandemic levels of the math benchmarks, with just 55.9% of middle schoolers being ...
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has quietly updated Prover, its AI model that’s designed to solve math-related proofs and theorems. According to South China Morning Post, DeepSeek uploaded the latest ...
What's the best way for children to learn arithmetic—memorizing number values and multiplication tables, or studying math at a deeper, conceptual level?