Eduardo González Putting UMass Boston on Map With Grants and Success - Higher Education: Dr. Eduardo González’s parents never attended school because they had to work in the agricultural fields of Mexico. They were in no position to provide any guidance to their son as he made choices about his own schooling.“I was always trying to do what felt right because I never had that influence,” says González. He found his way into a science-oriented high school, where he fell in love with mathematics and physics. He enrolled in a Mexican college that also specialized in science and technology.
A Mexican mathematician who completed his Ph.D. in the United States helped González understand in the late ’90s that he too needed to follow that path in order to be on the cutting edge of math. Gonzalez arrived at Stony Brook University in 1999 and plunged into his doctoral studies.
