Mentorship strategies to boost diversity in paleontology
According to data from the National Science Foundation, just three people of color earned doctoral degrees in paleontology in the United States in the year 2020. Two were from Penn.
According to data from the National Science Foundation, just three people of color earned doctoral degrees in paleontology in the United States in the year 2020. Two were from Penn.
Paleontology & Fossils
Jul 25, 2022
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Among the sciences, biology consistently attracts the greatest numbers of women to graduate school and academic careers. About half of all biology graduate students are women, and 40 percent of biology postdocs are female. ...
Social Sciences
Jun 30, 2014
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A new course in spring 2014 used the concept of wireless power transfer to give electrical and computer engineering graduate students a primer in hands-on research and prototyping.
Engineering
May 26, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Computer services company Cycle Computing has announced that it has used Amazon's servers to run software for a client that simulated the properties of 205,000 molecules over an 18 hour period using 156,000 ...
In higher education, 2013 may be remembered as the year of the MOOC. For those playing catch-up, MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses, are college-level classes taught entirely over the Internet. Like students in brick-and-mortar ...
Social Sciences
Jun 20, 2013
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A scientist's gender can have a big impact on how other researchers perceive his or her work, according to a new study.
Social Sciences
Apr 3, 2013
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Asking a scientist to take part in research that has little budget, less infrastructure and almost no central bureaucracy would appear a lost cause.
Ecology
Nov 10, 2011
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Last week, two teams of students from around the world rose to the Caltech Space Challenge, delivering plans for deep-space missions that could carry humans to an asteroid and back. The competing mission descriptions, from ...
Space Exploration
Sep 21, 2011
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