Tag: STEM
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...
The hidden superpower of ‘Black Panther’: Scientist role models
Clifford Johnson, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
I’m not the first to say that the upcoming Marvel movie...
How math education can catch up to the 21st century
Mary E. Pilgrim, Colorado State University and Thomas Dick, Oregon State University
In 1939, the fictional professor J. Abner Pediwell published a curious book called...
Does it pay to get a double major in college?
Christos Makridis, Stanford University
Students are bombarded with an array of competing opportunities during college, all with the promise that each...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
