Tag: STEM
Students perceive themselves as a ‘math person’ or a ‘reading person’...
Sirui Wan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
Women are better at statistics than they think
Jonathan B. Santo, University of Nebraska Omaha and Kelly Rhea MacArthur, University of Nebraska Omaha
The Research Brief is...
Only about 1 in 5 engineering degrees go to women
Danyelle Tauryce Ireland, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Despite various efforts to encourage...
Using ‘science’ to market cookies and other products meant for pleasure...
Rebecca Walker Reczek, The Ohio State University; Aviva Philipp-Muller, The Ohio State University, and John Costello, University of Notre Dame
Dunkology 101: How the NBA could take a more scientific approach...
Justin Barber, University of Kentucky
I grew up watching some of the greatest slam dunk artists in the world.
How hip-hop in the classroom is raising the volume of learning:...
Alvin Buyinza, The Conversation and Jamaal Abdul-Alim, The Conversation
Scholars trace the origin of hip-hop to a “back to...
Art illuminates the beauty of science – and could inspire the...
Chris Curran, Northern Kentucky University
Scientists have often invited the public to see what they see, using everything from...
Trailblazing women who broke into engineering in the 1970s reflect on...
Laura Ettinger, Clarkson University
Engineering in the U.S. has long been – and continues to be – a male-dominated...
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Zinc is a metal essential to life – scientists have discovered...
Andy Weiss, Vanderbilt University and Caitlin Murdoch, Vanderbilt University
All living things, including people, need zinc in their diets....
