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Stem pipeline problems to aid STEM diversity

By Guest PostJuly 19, 2014Education, Sciencebmw, brad love, brown university, climate, critical mass, culture, data, david rowley, mira abed, pacific subduction zones, peter riefer, plate dynamics, underlying force

Educators and policymakers have spent decades trying to recruit and retain more underrepresented minority students into the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) pipeline. A new analysis of disappointing results in the pipeline’s output leads two Brown University biologists to suggest measures to help the flow overcome an apparent gravity.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Decades of effort to increase the number of minority students entering the metaphorical science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) pipeline, haven’t changed this fact: Traditionally underrepresented groups remain underrepresented. In a new paper in the journal BioScience, two Brown University biologists analyze the pipeline’s flawed flow and propose four research-based ideas to ensure that more students emerge from the far end with Ph.D.s and STEM careers. (more…)

Higgs Boson Discussion Launches UChicago Discovery Series

By Guest PostFebruary 20, 2013Sciencecritical mass, elementary particle, fundamental particles, higgs boson, higgs field, universe

The long-sought Higgs boson—the particle that endows all elementary particles in the universe with mass—was elusive no longer when scientists at the CERN physics laboratory in Switzerland, discovered it last summer. (more…)

Did Obama’s Election Kill the Antiwar Movement?

By Guest PostApril 6, 2011Politicsafghanistan, americans, anti-obama attitudes, anti-republican, anti-republican sentiments, antiwar movement, antiwar protests, capitol hill, Chicago, congress, critical mass, d c, democratic party, democrats, election, fabio rojas, Iraq, libya, michael heaney, new york, Obama, political system, presidency, pro-war decisions, radical political attitudes, republicans, united states, war, Washington

ANN ARBOR, Mich.— Since 2003, the antiwar movement in the United States has had much to protest with Americans fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan and now Libya, but the movement—which has dropped off sharply the past two years—may be more anti-Republican than antiwar, says a University of Michigan researcher.

A new study by U-M’s Michael Heaney and colleague Fabio Rojas of Indiana University shows that the antiwar movement in the United States demobilized as Democrats, who had been motivated to participate by anti-Republican sentiments, withdrew from antiwar protests when the Democratic Party achieved electoral success, first with Congress in 2006 and then with the presidency in 2008. (more…)

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Stem pipeline problems to aid STEM diversity

Higgs Boson Discussion Launches UChicago Discovery Series

Did Obama’s Election Kill the Antiwar Movement?