Congratulations to Professor Natalia Komarova, from the Department of Mathematics, and Professor Dominik Wodarz, from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Department of Mathematics. Their article "Dependence of the Firearm-Related Homicide Rate on Gun Availability: A Mathematical Analysis", which was published in PLOS One in July, has been featured in U.S. News and World Report.

Additional information about their research article is available here: http://news.uci.edu/press-releases/the-arithmetic-of-gun-control/  and  http://ps.uci.edu/news/8147

Natalia Komarova is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics. She earned her PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Arizona, Tucson.  She joined the UCI Math Department in 2004.   Dominik Wodarz is a Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.  He earned his PhD in Zoology from the University of Oxford. He joined UCI in 2004.