In a sense, everything comes down to a science. Just as we have the eyes to see the art in a DNA strand and the ears to hear the music in a whale song, we have the minds to quantify and calculate in the least-expected places. Politicians can figure out formulas to help them understand the seeming whims of voters. Project managers can apply logic and deductive reasoning to the chaos of workflow. Mathematicians can run the numbers underlying the words of a writer. And educators can engineer the most favorable conditions to help women and minorities penetrate the barriers that keep them out of fields like ‌ science. On the following pages, explore how people from the St. Edward’s community have experimented in their lives and careers — and achieved favorable results.
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