Tag: STEM
Teaching kids how to make guitars can get them hooked on...
Mark French, Purdue University
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I’m part of a team of professors and high...
Why I’m teaching kids science through the sport of rowing
Elizabeth A. Barton, Wayne State University
I didn’t know what the world looked like at 5:00 a.m. until my son began rowing for the Detroit...
At these colleges, students begin serious research their first year
Nancy Stamp, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Rat brains to understand Parkinson’s disease. Drones to detect plastic landmines. Social media to predict acts...
What Amazon’s decision to retrain a third of its employees means...
Scott F. Latham, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Amazon’s announcement that it will invest US$700 million to retrain 100,000 employees – a third of its U.S....
Flying colors: Researcher reveals hidden world through the eyes of butterflies
Adriana Briscoe, University of California, Irvine
An award-winning scientist and professor of evolutionary biology, Adriana Briscoe studies the evolution of vision in butterflies and how...
#MeToo, workplace equality and the ‘wave of women’: 3 essential reads
Bryan Keogh, The Conversation and Nicole Zelniker, The Conversation
Editor’s note: As we come to the end of the year, Conversation editors take a look...
First-generation college students earn less than graduates whose parents went to...
Anna Manzoni, North Carolina State University and Jessi Streib, Duke University
When discussions take place about first-generation college students, often the focus is on how...
Women’s colleges play unique role in quest for equality
Kimberly Wright Cassidy, Bryn Mawr; Jacquelyn Litt, Rutgers University, and ReBecca Roloff, St Catherine University
Editor’s note: Thanks, some say, in no small part to...
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Buyer beware, online shopping prices vary user to user
By Christo Wilson, Northeastern University
People have a mental model of shopping that is based on experiences from brick-and-mortar stores. We intuitively understand how this...
