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Women and Underrepresented Minorities in STEM
How do we increase STEM enrollment for women and underrepresented minorities? In today's Academic Minute, part of Amherst College Week...
Feeling the Need to Defend Your Credentials
Why did Elizabeth Warren divulge her genetic test results, which show she is in fact part Native American, while simultaneously insisting that she's always been evaluated professionally as a white person?
MIT Announces Plan for $1B Effort on Computing, AI
Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Monday morning announced a $1 billion plan to create a new college of computing within...
Study Explores Parental Wealth and College Outcomes
A new study by researchers at Duke University and the University of Massachusetts at Boston exploits an intergenerational database of...
‘To See the Suffering’
This year's Jefferson lecture focuses on how "the humanities have what medicine needs."
Academic Minute: Women and Minorities in STEM
Today on the Academic Minute, part of Amherst College Week, Sheila Jaswal, associate professor of chemistry, explores ways to increase...
Chasm Between Black Student and White Professor
The Niceties, now Off-Broadway, portrays raw racial divisions on campus.
Bill Would Address Evaluation, Transparency of Experimental Sites
Senator Todd Young, an Indiana Republican, announced legislation Monday that would lay out requirements for the Education Department to collect...