April 27, 2021
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Could the Pandemic Prompt an ‘Epidemic of Loss’ of Women in the Sciences?
Even before the pandemic, many female scientists felt unsupported in their fields. Now, some are hitting a breaking point. Like many women during ... -
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Harvard Business School Spent ‘Tens Of Millions Of Dollars’ To Convert Classrooms To Hybrid Formats
One of the new hybrid classrooms at Harvard Business School that cost HBS “tens of millions of dollars’ To shift into hybrid teaching ...April 27, 2021 -
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Asian American discrimination is real -- and it also isn't new
Being born in the United States wasn't enough for Yi-Li Wu to avoid a lifetime of constant microaggressions. From being told she had to be good at ...April 27, 2021 -
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Meet the woman whose Instagram story blew the lid off the 'rape culture' at the UK's most expensive schools, elite universities
Soma Sara is the founder of Everyone's Invited - a platform for survivors of sexual abuse. There are over 15,000 testimonies on the ...April 25, 2021 -
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U-Md. president aims to hire more faculty of color, cut carbon emissions and bolster research
The University of Maryland in College Park will hire more faculty of color, slash its carbon emissions and bolster investments in research, Darryll J ...April 22, 2021 -
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Scientist who helped develop Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine agrees third shot is needed as immunity wanes
The chief medical officer of BioNTech told CNBC that people will likely need a third shot of its two-dose Covid-19 vaccine as immunity against ...April 21, 2021 -
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Hard work should pay off for Asian Americans, not block their education opportunities
In 1929, a few years after Yale instituted a quota for Jews, admissions chairman Robert Corwin received a letter from a Yale trustee complaining ...April 17, 2021 -
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The student debt crisis is crushing Black Americans. Here's how loan forgiveness could help
There was no college fund, no family savings to help Jamilah Williams pay for school. After she graduated from college and landed her first ...April 15, 2021