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2025 STEM News Vol 14 Issue 2 – Biology and Mental Health
As scientific challenges grow increasingly complex, addressing questions in genetics, physiology, anatomy, epidemiology, anthropology, nutrition, and sociocultural factors requires not only diversity in scientific disciplines but also among the researchers themselves. Racial disparities in health have been well documented in the U.S. Racial disparities in health have been well documented in the U.S. with lower life expectancy, earlier onset of chronic diseases, and greater disability among Blacks relative to Whites One explanation for these disparities suggests that U.S. Blacks experience a faster rate of biological aging due to higher psychosocial stress levels and relative lack of resources.
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2025 STEM News Vol 14 Issue 1 – Public Science Literacy
Public Science Literacy Our Editorial Planning Board had no idea last year as we made plans for our 2025 publications that public education would be under threat by the new administration. We wanted to share for our readers what educators in various school districts as well as overseas were addressing the host of challenges they face in rural and urban set-tings. The confusion and turmoil spawned from attacks on the intersection of DEI and teaching pedagogy has left the future of education from K12 to post secondary in doubt.
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2024 STEM News Vol 13 Issue 6 – STEM and Sub Sahara Africa
Sub Sahara Issues, Opportunities, & Challenges I recently returned from Senegal, where I spent 10 days promoting STEM and girls education. During my visit, high school students from Sokone, Kermajabel, and the Martin Luther King Girls School in Dakar participated in projects using kits sent by New Jersey high school students. I brought three boxes containing kits on water treatment, DNA testing, and electricity. Over 300 students engaged in these pro-jects with great enthusiasm, and they are now re-questing more kits and the establishment of STEM classes or project-based training in their school.
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2024 STEM News Vol 13 Issue 5 – Admissions and Race
Admissions and Race Diversity, equity and inclusion programs have come under attack in boardrooms, state legislatures and college campuses across the country. A 2023 survey by the Pew Research Center found that 52% of employed U.S. adults say they have DEI trainings or meetings at work, and 33% say they have a designated staff member who promotes DEI. All of this has changed with the onslaught of DEI office being closed and staff re-assigned or laid off in higher education and corporate settings.
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2024 STEM News Vol 13 Issue 4 – Drones
Drones are inclusive and equitable and can help get girls engaged in STEM. Globally, STEM fields tend to be very male-dominated, meaning there are only so many female role models to look up to for young girls. Women only accounted for less than 15% of the drone industry’s workforce.
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2024 STEM News Vol 13 Issue 3 – K12 teachers working in teams create innovative curriculums in STEM
With issues of budgets, loss of veteran teachers, political concerns, and other pressures school districts, principals, and teachers are being creative and responding with more out-of-silo approaches for learning across disciplines. What is being applied in your school and how is it working?
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2024 STEM News Vol 13 Issue 2 – Teaching with AI
Advances in artificial intelligence may be able to transform student learning and education systems, or can it? AI can help overcome some bias in education, but has the potential for introducing bias as well. AI offers the ability to scale feedback, providing leveling across student feedback; this feature is particularly helpful, for instance, when there are multiple graders across a course, as it can help overcome any bias among graders.
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2024 STEM News Vol 13 Issue 1 – STEM in Rural Schools
Building STEM in Rural Schools... One in five students in the Us attend a rural school. This topic for article calls for our first newsletter this year was selected by our Editorial Planning Board because the practice can provide students with the opportunity to relate the learning of mathematics to their cultural frames of reference (i.e., background knowledge, native language) which helps develop their cultural identities and perceptions of themselves as capable learners of mathematics.
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2023 STEM News Vol 12 Issue 4
Is Blockchain and Cybersecurity the Future for Minorities and Women? As the blockchain continues to lead fresh frontiers in finance, diversity is critical. It’s crucial that all ethnic demographics are represented as both the leaders of this change and the consumers of it. However, the worlds of finance and tech are predominantly white and male—and fintech, the innovative collision of the two, is no different. This includes the blockchain, which is desperately devoid of diversity.
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2023 STEM News Vol 12 Issue 3
College acceptance rates over time have been dropping dramatically, making for an extremely competitive admissions process at some of the country’s top colleges and universities. Do AP classes carry disproportionate weight in college admissions? Are minority students taught with inadequate curriculum and who do not take calculus and AP math at risk of not being admitted as College Admissions practices act as gatekeepers against students from underserved school systems?
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