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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.…

Finds from Vaakunakylä, including wartime bullet casings, high-end porcelain and a child’s doll. Credit: authors Archaeologists have excavated the former working-class neighborhood of Vaakunakylä near Oulu, west-central Finland and interviewed its previous inhabitants, revealing the rich heritage of this marginalized community. Vaakunakylä was…

January 31, 20243 min readA Brookings Institution report warns that energy-hungry artificial intelligence tech will worsen the climate crisisBy Thomas Frank & E&E News CLIMATEWIRE | It’s been celebrated for its potential to save lives through improved forecasting during deadly weather.But artificial intelligence also plays "a significant role in exacerbating the climate crisis” and could widen gaps that have left marginalized people highly vulnerable to global warming, warns a Brookings Institution report released…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Marginalized communities who distrust the legal system can benefit from access to lawyers "on their side" placed within trusted health and social care settings, according to new research by Nottingham Law School which explores the role of trust in a Health Justice Partnership. Health Justice…

Credit: Palgrave Macmillan Flinders University and U.K. researchers have analyzed the use of disability-related taboo words to better understand how certain terms are used in the community and shed light on their negative and positive impact on people with disabilities. The use of language is often at the frontline of efforts to…

I’ve had Basquiat on the brain lately while reporting this story about an exhibition the late artist’s sisters brought to L.A. — it opened last week at the Frank Gehry-designed the Grand LA, downtown. Now, another exhibition opens there tonight.Hi, I’m arts writer Deborah Vankin, filling in for Carolina A. Miranda this week.Giving visibility to marginalized artists In touring the Basquiat show, I also got a chance to tour the Grand LA — albeit in the rain and with a bad cold. But I digress. I’d been curious about the new…

Photo: create jobs 51 (Shutterstock)The Commerce Department announced Wednesday that it is launching an investigation into how widespread data collection and corporate surveillance pose an outsized risk to marginalized groups. “Everyone in America deserves strong privacy protections,” said Alan Davidson, assistant secretary of commerceat the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), in a press release. “This is especially important for marginalized communities, where the consequences of privacy…

Apple recently announced its best apps and games of 2022. Included this year were five Cultural Impact winners. The company chose these titles, believing they could each influence culture and positively impact people's lives. Recently, I had the opportunity to discuss two of these apps with their creators. Dot's Home and Inua - Story in Ice and Time are vastly different both in the stories they tell and in their design. And yet, I can see why Apple chose each to win a Cultural Impact award. Dot's HomeDot's Home is a…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Race- and ethnicity-based discrepancies in exposure to air pollution, especially regarding proximity to roadways and industrial zones, are well-established. A new study reports the first nationwide patterns in atmospheric fine particulate pollution and nitrogen dioxide exposure at U.S. public schools. …

A word cloud displays the most common descriptions of Māori and Pacific postgraduate experiences in university STEM courses. Author provided Given most New Zealand universities have goals for increasing Māori and Pacific student and staff numbers, we need to ask why their numbers still remain stubbornly low in the research sector—and even lower within "STEM" (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) departments.…