A team of scientists from over a dozen of the nation's top bioengineering programs have created a roadmap for developing and implementing a hiring process aimed at increasing diversity among biomedical engineering faculty.
Other
Aug 15, 2023
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A new study shows that two key factors can make freshly appointed CEOs more vulnerable and raise the odds they'll get fired.
Economics & Business
Oct 10, 2019
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Anyone who has tried to live the urban lifestyle knows living space can be a scarce resource. The average size of a new apartment in the U.S. in 2018 is 941 square feet, 5 percent smaller than 10 years ago, according to RENTCafe ...
Engineering
Mar 6, 2019
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A Purdue University researcher has designed what he calls a "minimal chair" that can be shipped in a thin flat box, taking only seconds to assemble without tools, as part of an effort to create furniture design processes ...
Engineering
Jan 9, 2019
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Why are there no chairs in the Bible, or in all 30,000 lines of Homer? Neither are there any in Shakespeare's Hamlet – written in 1599. But by the middle of the 19th century, it is a completely different story. Charles ...
Environment
Oct 26, 2018
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Women CEOs in America are paid less, have shorter tenures and their companies are punished in the stock market, even when their firms are just as profitable as those run by men, according to new research from Florida State ...
Economics & Business
Jul 17, 2018
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Every year companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars on elections in the United States. Yet studies of roll-call votes have shown that donations to specific office holders do not regularly yield the votes donors want. ...
Economics & Business
Oct 25, 2017
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Old office chairs are being transformed into hard-shell backpacks and bicycle panniers as part of an innovative new project.
Materials Science
Aug 16, 2017
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A new wheelchair prototype with an innovative propulsion system has been developed by Massey University engineers that attempts to minimise chronic shoulder and wrist problems for self-propelled wheelchair users, while making ...
Engineering
Jun 28, 2017
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For decades, higher ed administrators have talked about the need for more female professors in science, technology, engineering and mathematics departments. But what is the best way to recruit and retain those professors? ...
Social Sciences
May 22, 2017
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