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  • Why Fewer Women Pursue STEM in More Gender-Equal Countries

    Why Fewer Women Pursue STEM in More Gender-Equal Countries

    A recent study reveals a surprising trend — there are fewer women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields in wealthier and more gender-equal countries. The study, conducted by a team of researchers from the University of Missouri and Leeds Beckett University, UK, is published in Psychological Science. The researchers have found that countries… Read More

  • High Expectations Tied to Higher Test Scores

    High Expectations Tied to Higher Test Scores

    Students who expect higher scores from their exams generally achieve them, according to a recent study. The study is led by Jan Magnus, visiting professor at the Department of Econometrics and Operations Research of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Emeritus Professor at the Department of Econometrics & Operations Research in Tilburg University, the Netherlands, and Anatoly… Read More

  • Visualizing Successful Futures Can Help Students ‘Navigate Everyday Stressors’

    Visualizing Successful Futures Can Help Students ‘Navigate Everyday Stressors’

    Researchers at Northwestern University have found that identity-based motivation, or the practice of imagining a successful future for oneself, can help students get past their everyday challenges and stresses. The study was led by Mesmin Destin, associate professor in the School of Education and Social Policy and the Department of Psychology at Northwestern University, and… Read More

  • Brief Exposure to Charismatic Career Women Inspires Young Women to Choose Male-Dominated Field

    Brief Exposure to Charismatic Career Women Inspires Young Women to Choose Male-Dominated Field

    Top female college students were more likely to consider majoring in economics when exposed briefly to inspiring and charismatic women in the field, according to an easy and inexpensive study led by Danila Serra, assistant professor of economics at the Southern Methodist University (SMU). The study was funded by the Undergraduate Women in Economics Challenge,… Read More

  • ‘Stay the Course’ Program Keeps Students on the Path to Success

    ‘Stay the Course’ Program Keeps Students on the Path to Success

    A comprehensive case management program that helps students financially but, more importantly, addresses their day-to-day obstacles can improve graduation rate in community colleges, according to researchers from the University of Notre Dame. The paper is published in the National Bureau of Economic Research. “Despite the well-documented benefits of an associate’s degree, most students who start… Read More

  • edX, GE and Microsoft Team Up to Provide ‘Innovative Pathways’ to Online Education and Career Success

    edX, GE and Microsoft Team Up to Provide ‘Innovative Pathways’ to Online Education and Career Success

    edX, a nonprofit online learning platform founded by Harvard University and MIT in 2012, is partnering with Microsoft and GE to provide Massachusetts residents with online programs and courses that lead directly to employment opportunities. This opportunity could be a game changer for many residents. The partnership arose out of a mutual desire to find… Read More

  • Mindfulness Training Can Reduce Student Stress Even During Exams

    Mindfulness Training Can Reduce Student Stress Even During Exams

    Researchers at the University of Cambridge have proven mindfulness training as an effective way to limit student stress even during exam time. Stress levels among college students have grown tremendously in recent years. According to a University of Cambridge press release, the number of students engaged in counseling services in the UK grew 50 percent… Read More

  • Lancaster University Develops App to Tackle Loneliness

    Lancaster University Develops App to Tackle Loneliness

    A team of researchers from Lancaster University in the UK has developed an app —  the “Social Connectedness App” — that can help cure loneliness in older adults. The research to create the “Social Connectedness App” is part of the “Mobile Age” project, and was funded by Horizon 2020 EU. The “Mobile Age” project has… Read More

  • NYU’s Efforts to Encourage More American Students to Pursue STEM Degrees

    NYU’s Efforts to Encourage More American Students to Pursue STEM Degrees

    New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering would like to have more American students enrolled in its graduate science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programs. To accomplish its objective, the school has recently established a bridge program for college students and invested in a K12 STEM Education program, which is designed to bring training programs… Read More

  • UMN Football Player Ryan Santoso’s Years of Community Service Leads to Wuerffel Trophy Nomination

    UMN Football Player Ryan Santoso’s Years of Community Service Leads to Wuerffel Trophy Nomination

    Ryan Santoso, a football player at the University of Minnesota (UMN), has been nominated for the 2017 Wuerffel Trophy, an award given annually to the college football player “who best combines exemplary community service with athletic and academic achievement.” This nomination recognizes Santoso for his years of community service as well as his academic and… Read More

  • Climate Reality’s Campus Corps: How Students Can Tackle Climate Change

    Climate Reality’s Campus Corps: How Students Can Tackle Climate Change

    “We’re messing with Mother Nature and we’re making all these extreme events more intense and more common,” Al Gore told a packed room of climate activists today at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It’s Day Two of the Climate Reality Leadership Corps training, and Gore was offering a summary of a… Read More

  • How Students Are Assisting Puerto Rico Recovery Efforts From Their Laptops

    How Students Are Assisting Puerto Rico Recovery Efforts From Their Laptops

    The library was abuzz with the sound of students tapping away on their laptops as they edited maps online.   Was this a class in cartography that filled the North Reading Room at Stony Brook University’s Frank Melville Jr. Memorial Library? No. It was a “Mapathon,” and similar mapathons have been taking place at universities… Read More

  • University of Cincinnati’s Novel Program Tackles Lack of Regional IT Talent

    University of Cincinnati’s Novel Program Tackles Lack of Regional IT Talent

    The University of Cincinnati has created an Early College Information Technology Program to tackle the lack of talent and widening skills gap in the growing field of information technology (IT). It has partnered with Cincinnati Public Schools to launch the novel program that gives Cincinnati Public Schools students the opportunity to complete their first year… Read More

  • Dyson’s Novel Approach to Solve Engineer Shortage

    Dyson’s Novel Approach to Solve Engineer Shortage

    A university degree is expensive. There’s a shortage of engineers in developed nations. And there’s a huge gender gap in the field of engineering. So how do you solve these problems? Well, if you are Sir James Dyson, you start your own school. The name James Dyson has been synonymous with innovative technological advances for… Read More

  • Emory University’s Version of International Day of Peace: ‘Emory 21 Days of Peace’

    Emory University’s Version of International Day of Peace: ‘Emory 21 Days of Peace’

    Each year, September 21 is observed as the International Day of Peace. Emory University too will be observing this special day as it wraps up “Emory 21 Days of Peace,” a program launched last year with the lofty goal of “building peace locally and globally.” The United Nations General Assembly established September 21 as the… Read More

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