Science Studies Yoga

James Funderburk was born in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1947. He studied at Yale University where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated magna cum laude in 1969. He received a teaching assistantship in mathematics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1970 and completed his Ph.D. in mathematics there in 1975.

Dr. Funderburk is a student of Sri Swami Rama of the Himalayas. He has travelled to India to -further his training in yoga at Swami Rama’s ashram in Rishikesh.

Currently, Dr. Funderburk is Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois.