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Number of SEE student applicants and participants per program year. Credit: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1057/s41599-024-02797-w An Institute for Systems Biology (ISB)-led study has unveiled important insights and actionable protocols into providing equitable STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) experiences for high school students from historically marginalized communities.…

For decades, a graveyard of corroding barrels has littered the seafloor just off the coast of Los Angeles. It was out of sight, out of mind — a not-so-secret secret that haunted the marine environment until a team of researchers came across them with an advanced underwater camera.Speculation abounded as to what these mysterious barrels might contain. Startling amounts of DDT near the barrels pointed to a little-known history of toxic pollution from what was once the largest DDT manufacturer in the nation, but federal…

Credit: Andrea Piacquadio from Pexels Within most countries, businesses operate under the notion that their property rights are stable. A set of operational rules and a political system that protects those rules are firmly entrenched, right? Not necessarily. "According to organization and management theory, mostly we assume the external…

Critics are having a field day with Napoleon, and bringing the brunt of their analytical prowess to bear on Ridley Scott and Joaquin Phoenix’s new creation. It seems that when taken at face value, nothing is quite as riveting as reading the history of the late 17th and 18th centuries, but all the excitement of real-life events can’t keep up with the requirements of the cinematic medium, culminating in yet another historical Ridley Scott rollercoaster where the natural filmmaking inclination for dramatization overpowers…

Ridley Scott reunited with Joaquin Phoenix decades after Gladiator to bring the story of French leader Napoleon Bonaparte’s rise to power to the big screen. Amid that, a real-life battle is surrounding the movie. Since the 2023 new movie release hit theaters, historians have been taking shots at major historical inaccuracies -- and they can't seem to stop. On the other hand, one defender stated that not every historical event in Napoleon is untrue. It’s not easy to portray historical events on the big screen that one…

The Supreme Court’s June ruling striking down affirmative action by socially defined race in college and university admissions is a step backward for equal opportunity to access education. While affirmative action was meant to eventually disappear as society dismantled structural racism, we are still far from that goal, and the consequences of this ruling will be widespread. However, as scholars of social justice, we believe that affirmative action has always been a Band-Aid for the wounds in our society caused by…

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Occurrence of interpersonal mistreatment or incivility in the workplace over the prior 12 months presented by (a) gender, (b) race and ethnicity, (c) sexual orientation, (d) career stage, and (e) ability status. Stars represent significant differences between demographic groups for specific behaviors. Credit: Earth's Future (2023). DOI: 10.1029/2022EF002912 A first-of-its-kind workplace climate survey of Earth and space…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain While the outcomes of institutional racism in our education system have been well documented—Black and American Indian students are half as likely to graduate from college within four years compared to white and Asian students—few people realize how structural racism within educational institutions affects mental health outcomes for students. …

The prominence of district spending in state politics. Credit: Legislative Studies Quarterly (2023). DOI: 10.1111/lsq.12413 In 1936, when the influential American political scientist Harold Laswell published his seminal work Politics: Who Gets What, When, How, he couldn't have foreseen that the book's title would soon become a standard, lay definition of politics, one that endures to this day.…