By Suzanne Dorée, Doug Ensley, April Strom At the MAA MathFest2024 in Indianapolis, a panel of seasoned grant proposal writers and NSF program officers offered advice on planning and preparing proposals for grants from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE), particularly for the program called “Improving Undergraduate STEM Education,” or IUSE,...

By David Bressoud @dbressoud As of 2024, new Launchings columns appear on the third Tuesday of the month. This is a review of David Bessis’s Mathematica: A secret world of intuition and curiosity, translated from the French by Kevin Frey and published this year by Yale University Press. It was originally written for MAA Reviews,...