By Ketema Paul, PhD –ย Associate Professor at UCLA [dropcap]I[/dropcap]ย have known I wanted to be a scientist since I was a kid. My earliest memory of wanting...
Jessica Rauchut – Research Associate at Penn State Hershey Medical School ย ||ย At 22, many of us are graduating, starting new jobs, becoming doctors, getting married, or...
Stephanie Fiedler, PhD Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg [dropcap]A[/dropcap]n alarming sound rings through the ice-cold air as a giant crane lifts my heavy boxes. I...
by Fanuel Muindi, PhD DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.33622.24644ย Abstract [dropcap]R[/dropcap]ecently, a Tanzania based organization called Hope for Children in Adversity started a new project called STEM Girl Project...
I've spent my professional life juggling two careers.ย ย First, as a lab neurobiologist, I study rats and cultured neurons, trying to understand how stress damages the brain.ย ย Second,...
by Staffย [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he Ugandan government has a policy whereby science subjects are compulsory for secondary school students. The policyย took effect in 2006 (1).ย The policy alsoย providesย financial support...
by Staffย [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he data below was acquired from theย United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Institute for Statistics.ย We are showingย the average (2000-2014) expenditures for research...
by Jessica Tsai and Fanuel Muindi (originally published by The STEM Advocacy Group) ย Download PDF ย ||ย What is your scientific origin story? When did science first captivate...
by Staff [dropcap]E[/dropcap]ducation inย Science, technology, engineering, and mathematicsย (STEM) fields has been identified as a development goal in theย global South. STEM oriented economies perform strongly on a...
by Fanuel Muindiย There needs to be a big push to integrate statistical math as early as possible during a childโs education. I think that a...