Middle Schoolers Develop App to Help Visually Impaired
"We saw him struggling, trying to get around. What if we could create an app to help him?" Like many great ideas, Hello Navi started with a question.
Voices
Exploring and celebrating diversity in science.
DIY Culture Empowers the Next Generation of Latinas in STEM
Editor's note: During National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 to October 15), Ciencia Puerto Rico and Borinqueña are celebrating the work of organizations inspiring, supporting and empowering Latinas in STEM fields...
The Sciences
Media Watch: An Essential Tool in Diversity
Diversity brings excellence to science, the workplace and other human endeavors, as research is showing. And the media plays a crucial role in shaping how society views its members, second perhaps only to the entertainment industry in such influence...
The Sciences
Latinas in STEM: Making Bright Futures a Reality
Editor's note: During National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 to October 15), Ciencia Puerto Rico and Borinqueña are celebrating the work of organizations inspiring, supporting and empowering Latinas in STEM fields...
Space & Physics
Making Astronomy Accessible for the Visually Impaired
A couple of years ago, one of my thesis mentors sought visually impaired scientists working at a major space science agency in the United States.
The Sciences
Diversity in STEM: What It Is and Why It Matters
Innovations resulting from science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields have positively touched nearly every aspect of human life.
The Sciences
Female Physicists Worldwide Fight Sexist Stereotypes
Women in physics tend to be outnumbered by men nearly all over the world. For a few days in early August, however, it didn't feel that way when I attended the International Conference on Women in Physics in Waterloo, Canada...
The Sciences
Science Media Beset With Gender Gaps
In the fall of 2005, I and a couple hundred other new students at Columbia University's journalism school walked into a lecture hall for a series of welcome speeches, and two things happened that impressed me...
The Sciences
Diversity in Focus at Upcoming Science Writers Meeting
Calling all journalists, authors, editors, producers, public information officers, students and communicators with a passion for science, tech, engineering and mathematics!
The Sciences
LEGO Reveals Female Scientist Minifigures
After much rejoicing at the news last month that LEGO would mass-produce a set of female scientist minifigures, the company has released a prototype of the final set to its original designer, Ellen Kooijman (a.k.a...
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