At 13 years old, O’Dorney won the 80th Scripps National Spelling Bee and shook hands with then-President George W. Bush in the Oval Office. In 2011, O’Dorney met then-President Barack Obama, this time ...

Robert Bryant knows what people think of him and his kind. They are seen as "disembodied, bloodless and solitary creatures," who do strange and obscure things behind closed doors. "In fact, ...

Leon A. Henkin, a UC Berkeley mathematics professor who helped pioneer programs aimed at increasing the number of women and minorities who study and teach math at the highest levels, has died. He was ...