By Christopher O'Donnell

chris.odonnell@heraldtribune.com

Published: Sunday, April 15, 2012 at 4:38 p.m.

Last Modified: Sunday, April 15, 2012 at 4:38 p.m.

SARASOTA - Math attracts many academics for its certainty — its reassuringly definitive answers that court little controversy.

But not Donal O'Shea.

New College of Florida's president-in-waiting is a mathematician who explores the outer edges of certainty, where complex algebraic equations falter, where math becomes the language of dreams.

"It allows you to talk about things you can't see," O'Shea said recently. "It's a way into other universes."

New College Opens Cutting-Edge Research Lab

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New College of Florida (www.ncf.edu) held an official opening for its Optical Spectroscopy and Nano-Materials Lab last Friday. The event included lab tours and presentations by chemistry, math and physics professors. The lab, unique for its location in an undergraduate liberal arts institution, was funded by a $1.7 million grant from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory. To read more about this cutting-edge lab, click here.

Original article published on January 9, 2012, in BIZ941 Daily (www.biz941.com)