WSU MATHEMATICIAN CALCULATES HOW TO COMBAT VIRAL OUTBREAKS

PULLMAN, Wash., Sept. 23 -- Washington State University issued the following news release:

A Washington State University mathematician is using computational modeling to decipher how viral infections spread across multiple scales, from processes inside individual cells to outbreaks across populations.

Xueying "Snow" Wang, a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, is the WSU-based investigator on a three-year National Science Foundation-funded project involving researchers from WSU, the University of Florida, and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. The team is developing mathematical models that connect the biological and epidemiological scales of viral infection.

"I am an applied mathematician, so I'm particula...