Social Connectedness in Physical Isolation: Online Teaching Practices That Support Under-Represented Undergraduate Students’ Feelings of Belonging and Engagement in STEM

By |2022-01-24T16:31:25-05:00January 24th, 2022|News|

The COVID-19 outbreak spurred unplanned closures and transitions to online classes. Physical environments that once fostered social interaction and community were rendered inactive.

Omicron Variant: What You Need to Know

By |2022-01-22T12:34:37-05:00January 11th, 2022|News|

Omicron Variant: What You Need to Know Two types of tests are used to test for current infection: nucleic acid amplification tests and antigen tests. NAAT and antigen tests can only tell you if you have a current infection. Individuals can use the COVID-19 Viral Testing Tool to help determine what kind of test to [...]

Students’ Perceptions of Barriers and Opportunities for STEM research: A study of freshmen students at an HBCU

By |2021-11-10T16:55:20-05:00November 9th, 2021|News|

In this study, we examined Black freshmen undergraduate students’ perceptions of barriers and opportunities for research at an HBCU.

Equity for women and underrepresented minorities in STEM: Graduate experiences and career plans in chemistry

By |2021-09-23T19:53:44-04:00September 23rd, 2021|News|

Recent events prompted scientists in the United States and throughout the world to consider how systematic racism affects the scientific enterprise. This paper provides evidence of inequities related to race–ethnicity and gender in graduate school experiences and career plans of PhD students in the top 100 ranked departments in one science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) discipline, chemistry.

RIT awarded nearly $2 million for NSF Research Traineeship Program, AWARE-AI

By |2021-10-06T13:01:05-04:00September 23rd, 2021|News|

Program will prioritize women, deaf and hard-of-hearing, and AALANA graduate students RIT was awarded a nearly $2 million grant by the NSF to create a new research traineeship program for Ph.D. and MS students, AWAREness for Sensing Humans Responsibly with AI (AWARE-AI). The National Science Foundation (NSF) reports that in 2019, only 22.9 percent of [...]

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