Tag: STEM
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...
Here’s how to encourage more girls to pursue science and math...
Jilana Boston, New York University and Andrei Cimpian, New York University
Women remain underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM. In the field...
Astronaut Sally K. Ride’s legacy – encouraging young women to embrace...
Bonnie J. Dunbar, Texas A&M University
On June 18, 1983, 35 years ago, Sally Ride became the first American woman to launch into space,...
This $75 million gift might make higher ed question its obsession...
Peter E. Knox, Case Western Reserve University
During his unsuccessful campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, Marco Rubio made the dubious (and grammatically unsound) assertion...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
