An Important Milestone Reached: Letters in Biomathematics Comes Home

A milestone reached?

FireWire Finally Comes Home

117 Standards I n February 1997, I wrote a Computer column titled " Linking Computers and Consumer Electronics, " which described the IEEE 1394 networking standard, otherwise known as FireWire. FireWire was designed to link personal computers, digital cameras , televisions, DVD players, printers, and other home electronics equipment. In one sense, FireWire represented the technology behind all ...

Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli: traveler's diarrhea comes home.

The article in this issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases by Beatty et al. [1] on an outbreak of diarrhea due to enterotoxi-genic Escherichia coli (ETEC) further documents the emergence of ETEC as a significant diarrheal pathogen in the United States. The main contribution of the article by Beatty and colleagues is that it describes one of the largest foodborne outbreaks ever reported in the Un...

Health Care Comes Home: The Human Factors

This book is a result of a study assigned to the Committee on Human-Systems Integration of the National Research Council. The purpose was to conduct a widespread investigation of the role of human factors in home health care delivery trends and resulting challenges. To achieve that goal a 19strong Committee was founded to explore home care issues through the lens of human factors and to make re...

An Initiative to Broaden Diversity in Undergraduate Biomathematics Training

At North Carolina A&T State University (NCATSU), there was a critical need to better coordinate genuine research and classroom experiences for undergraduates early in their academic career. We describe the development and implementation of a faculty alliance across academic departments to increase biomathematics research opportunities for underrepresented minorities. Our faculty alliance is cal...