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AMCS Alum/Segre Advisee: How a Math Whiz Built the Internet’s Ultimate Sports Almanac from a Church in Mount Airy
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
"A Professor, a Website, and a Leap of Faith: Forman earned a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Iowa, and he arrived in Philadelphia in 2000 after accepting a position as a professor of math and computer science at Saint Joseph’s University.
By then, Baseball Reference, the flagship of Sports Reference’s collection of nine sites, was already alive. It started in his final year of graduate school as a side project. While he was a full-time professor at Saint Joseph’s, he would update Baseball Reference on nights and weekends. It wasn’t sophisticated, it wasn’t profitable, and it had only a fraction of today’s audience."
2025 Prospective Student Visit Day and Graduate Research Symposium Wrap-Up
Friday, November 21, 2025
Learn more about the 2025 Prospective Student Visit Day and Graduate Research Symposium.
From the Midwest to the Mountains: Hussam Habib and Osama Khalid on a journey
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Hussam Habib and Osama Khalid make their way by train to Yosemite and the Rockies as a big hurrah trip for Habib ahead of his recent move to Austria.
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