Discrimination, harassment reported by doctors, nurses in Cali’s Central Valley region
File photo: Pexels California’s Central Valley needs health care workers, but a new study suggests it may be difficult to recruit and retain them...
Canadian women less likely to receive research funding
Women are less likely to receive grants and personnel awards from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), according to a new study by...
Study: Racism shortens lives, hurts health
File photo courtesy: Pixabay By April Thames, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Negative social attitudes, such as...
Male breast cancer patients face higher mortality rates than female counterparts
Males with breast cancer are 19 per cent more likely to die than females across all disease stages, according to a study in JAMA Oncology. Additional research...
Urban, independent pharmacies in low-income neighbourhoods at most risk of closure in U.S.
File photo courtesy: Pixabay. The number of pharmacies in the U.S. is on the rise, but they’re moving out of low-income, urban neighbourhoods, according...
Don’t dwell on it: ‘Sleeping on it’ may improve problem-solving abilities
The next time you’re stuck on a problem, try sleeping on it. After all: countless innovations are the result of approaching a problem in...
Half of transgender, non-binary people hide their identity at work: Here’s how you can help
This article was written for theconversation.com by Ilaria Boncori, University of Essex and Saoirse O’Shea, Northumbria University, Newcastle. It has been republished in full...
Parents’ gender attitudes may be keeping Japanese girls out of STEM programs
Photo courtesy: Pexels In Japan, women’s enrollment in STEM programs remains low, and that could be tied to the stereotypical gender roles that are assigned...
STEM PROFILE: Kristen Morrow | Integrative conservation Ph.D. student, University of Georgia
My name is Kristen Morrow and I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Georgia. I study primate conservation in Indonesia by bringing together methods from anthropology, ecology, and animal behavior. The goal of this work is to understand how humans and wildlife can coexist on a shared planet and to identify equitable solutions to conservation challenges.
PROFILE: Naia Butler-Craig, Aerospace Engineering Ph.D. student
Naia Butler-Craig is an Aerospace Engineering PhD student at the Georgia Institute of Technology and works in the High-Power Electric Propulsion Lab as a Graduate Research Assistant.