February 15, 2021
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Mothers who earned straight A’s in high school manage the same number of employees as fathers who got failing grades
Leadership opportunities for even the most academically successful girls are few. SDI Productions/E+ via Getty Images Jill Yavorsky, University ... -
New postage stamp honors Chien-Shiung Wu, trailblazing nuclear physicist
Chien-Shiung Wu’s experiments were instrumental in supporting some of the biggest 20th-century theories in physics. Bettmann via Getty ...February 15, 2021 -
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US drops discrimination lawsuit against Yale
The Justice Department on Wednesday dropped an affirmative action lawsuit the Trump administration had filed against Yale ...February 3, 2021 -
The perils of associating ‘white’ with ‘privilege’ in the classroom
When minority groups are exposed to stereotypes that deem them inferior, they often underachieve academically, research shows. Terry Vine/The Image ...January 26, 2021 -
Unis want research shared widely. So why don’t they properly back academics to do it?
Life and Times/Shutterstock Margaret Kristin Merga, Edith Cowan University and Shannon Mason, Nagasaki University Academics are increasingly ...January 26, 2021 -
Zoom work relationships are a lot harder to build – unless you can pick up on colleagues’ nonverbal cues
Using nonverbal cues like hand gestures can help make communicating over video more effective. Ariel Skelley/DigitalVision via Getty ...January 21, 2021 -
For these students, using data in sports is about more than winning games
The ‘DATA Bulls’ use computer science skills to create data analytics for college sports teams. Felesia Stukes, Author ...January 21, 2021 -
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Female scientists focus on a secret weapon to fight climate change: Moms
A new group of parent scientists is launching Science Moms, a $10 million educational campaign to engage other mothers “What world ...January 18, 2021