Honors student Elizabeth Stephenson is already a pioneer of research in mathematical biology — and she’s only a junior. While she’s getting her bachelors degree in pure math, she’s building on the understanding of muscle healing with equations.

For Stephenson, it’s the love of math that inspires her work.

“I enjoy seeing how something so simple can model so many powerful things in our universe and condense huge amounts of data into simple elegant equations,” she said. Continue reading