At just 8 years old, Xóchitl Guadalupe Cruz has invented a device to help low-income families. The little girl from Chiapas was recognized by UNAM’s Institute of Nuclear Sciences for her outstanding scientific achievement. At just […]
Our society is inching toward a future when the phrase “you code like a girl” will be a compliment of the highest order. But there are significant hurdles before we get there. The statistics behind […]
The 22-year-old graduated from MIT with a perfect score of 5.0 and is now a Harvard Ph.D candidate, where she studies space-time and black holes. The young Latina is exploring some of the most complex […]
Think Big Foundation and Cisco launched SensED – a project-based STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education program for middle and high school students – in September with a pilot kickoff at Think Big’s innovation center in […]
The days of sexist science teachers and Barbies chirping that “math class is tough!” are over, according to pop culture, but a government program aimed at bringing more women and girls into science, technology, engineering […]
Last summer, researchers at Yale published a study proving that physicists, chemists and biologists are likely to view a young male scientist more favorably than a woman with the same qualifications. Presented with identical summaries […]
In an open letter sent last week to the prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science […]
When women were reminded — even subtly — of the stereotype that men were better than women at math, the performance of women in math tests measurably declined. When women were reminded — even subtly […]
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