Dehyu Sinyan tells a story any number of college students can relate to. Say you’re starting off your college career with a math or science class and it’s not too far into the course when you run into trouble understanding some of the material. So you need a tutor, someone who’s not only taken that [...]

Why is math so important? That was the question many parents have heard that Nitin Agarwal was recently confronted with by his eight-year-old son as they worked together on homework. To be sure, the foundation of math that supported the web development that has spurred Agarwal’s entrepreneurial career is a good explanation. As founder and CEO Motifworks, a [...]

Imagine working toward your PhD at Johns Hopkins University in human genetics or physiology — slogging away at what seems like endless hours in the lab — all while launching a social networking startup here in Baltimore. And you don’t have any real office space save for frequent meetings at the aptly named Fells Point [...]