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Blog / Rural Internet Access and Diversity in STEM

April 5, 2018 / Jessie Barrick /

It is no secret that many STEM fields, especially physics and engineering, suffer from a lack of equal representation by race, ethnicity, and gender. Approximately 75% of all physics degrees…

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Blog / Defying Regression Towards the Mean

February 23, 2017February 21, 2017 / Carly Sjogren /

As a young woman in pursuit of a career in academia, I find the underrepresentation of women in STEM careers, and specifically scientific research, to be a daunting statistic to…

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Blog / Cells and Samples Have Race Too!

January 24, 2017January 28, 2017 / Salma Azam /

If I told you that a tumor DNA sequencing research study found 25% of lung cancer patients have a mutation in the gene KRAS, would that truly mean that if…

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Cancer Opinions Reliability and Relevance of Results Reproducibility

Blog / The Impossibly Ideal Scientist

December 7, 2016December 7, 2016 / Laurel Kartchner /

Beverly Crusher. Roy Hinkley. Emmett Brown. Samantha Carter. Sheldon Cooper. The Doctor. Abby Sciuto. Temperance Brennan. What do each of these scientists have in common? From creating a Geiger counter…

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Blog / What Will A Trump Presidency Mean for Scientists?

December 7, 2016December 7, 2016 / Lee Hong /

The votes are in, and to the surprise of pundits and pollsters everywhere, Donald J. Trump has been elected the 45th president of the United States. However, many scientists are…

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Blog / Why Aren’t Politicians Talking About Science, and Should We Care?

August 29, 2016August 29, 2016 / Sarah Vick / 1

With two months to go before election day, we’ve already seen numerous candidates in numerous debates.  It seems like politicians will debate everything…except science. Science is all around us, and…

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Blog / Science Outreach: Is It Really Worth it?

August 25, 2016October 29, 2016 / Anonymous /

Standing off to the side of the demonstration, I watched a six-year-old girl carefully pick up her paper airplane from the ground and bring it back to her work station.…

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Blog / A Ph.D in Anxiety

August 18, 2016August 19, 2016 / Erika Van Goethem / 2

I’m standing in front of a long conference table, rubbing my clammy palms on my blazer. My committee is discussing my transcripts and research progress.  One professor is questioning the…

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Anxiety Everyday Questions Graduate School Mental Health Opinions Science Communication Series

Blog / #NotAStudentHere

August 15, 2016August 15, 2016 / Sara Duncan / 1

  In January 2015, my Ph.D. adviser invited me into her office at Rutgers University, where I was enrolled, for what I thought was a typical meeting.  After the requisite…

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Blog / Does Inside Out Accurately Portray Memory?

December 22, 2015February 16, 2016 / Jonathan Susser /

With the recent release of Pixar’s latest movie, The Good Dinosaur, I thought I would revisit their previous film, Inside Out. Inside Out follows the five main emotions (Joy, Sadness, Disgust,…

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Blog / Women in Science: Reflections on Organizations to Promote Gender Equality in STEM

November 10, 2015March 21, 2016 / Sarah Marks /

Women are largely underrepresented in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics).  To tackle this problem, groups around the University of North Carolina’s campus, throughout the Research Triangle, and across…

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