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Education Mar 8, 2024

Research unveils effective STEM program models for high school students from historically marginalized communities

An Institute for Systems Biology (ISB)-led study has unveiled important insights and actionable protocols into providing equitable STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) experiences for high school students ...

Social Sciences Mar 7, 2024

What drives students to take up teaching? A new study explores aspirations and challenges

As role models and mentors for the youth, teachers play an important role in guiding children into well-rounded adults. However, excessive workloads and high skill expectations have allegedly led to teacher shortages in Japan.

Social Sciences Mar 7, 2024

South Africa: Women play key role in early childhood learning and care, but they need help accessing university

In South Africa, the early childhood development sector is dominated by women who build creches from the ground up. These women offer services to communities that go far beyond childcare. They teach, feed and nurture children ...

Social Sciences Feb 15, 2024

For professional women, having high-status connections can backfire, reveals study

Women working in organizations are frequently encouraged to cultivate connections to high-status individuals based on a prominent social network theory. But new research conducted in China and the United States suggests that ...

Biotechnology Feb 14, 2024

Using three AI protein prediction tools, study uncovers new wrinkles in the folding story of 'orphan' proteins

When Profs. Joel Sussman and Israel Silman were asked to mentor Chinese students online during the COVID-19 pandemic, the last thing they expected to come out of the experience was highly innovative research on protein evolution ...

Social Sciences Feb 13, 2024

How researchers are helping address group violence in Baltimore

The Baltimore Police Department's Western District has historically had the highest rates of homicides in the city and among the highest in the country. Looking through Baltimore crime data from 2020, Anthony Braga, the Jerry ...

Environment Feb 9, 2024

Women train to fight fire with fire in Portugal

Women from around the world gathered in northwest Portugal this week to practice a traditional technique of deliberately burning land to prevent the kind of wildfires—intensified by climate change—that have killed hundreds ...

Bio & Medicine Feb 6, 2024

Nanomedicine advancement shows potential for personalized point-of-care therapeutics

Stefan Wilhelm, an associate professor in the Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma, and several students in his Biomedical Nano-Engineering Lab have recently published an article in the ...

Social Sciences Feb 2, 2024

Researchers analyze career pathways for gifted girls

Compared to boys, girls often excel in their secondary education results—but even the most gifted students may struggle to find their "dream job" and follow the best career path, pay grades and workplace progression to ...

Ecology Jan 29, 2024

'Everyone can be a naturalist' says the man who preserved more than 150,000 acres

Suburban environs can be dull. Lawns and roads don't offer much biodiversity for curious boys. But Charles Bier, a recently retired senior director of conservation science for the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, found a ...

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