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22% of Tenure-Track Professors Have a Parent With a Ph.D.

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than the general population, according to a new study in Nature: Human Behavior. The study involved combining national-level data on education, income and university rankings with a 2017–2020 survey of 7,204 U.S.-based Morgan, a recent computer science Ph.D.

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Number of Ph.D.s conferred dropped 5.4% in 2021

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That was the first such dip since 2017, and experts said at the time that COVID-19 was probably a factor. Degrees awarded in the life sciences fell 6 percent between 2020 and 2021, and by about 8 percent in the physical and earth sciences. Mathematics and computer science and engineering stayed relatively steady year over year.

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The 2024 Insight Into Diversity Inspiring Programs in STEM Award

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The AIHC was launched by Kent Smith in 2017. Participants engage in research using statistics and computer science to analyze real-world data on diseases like cancer and COVID-19. Lana Duke is a Chickasaw citizen and graduated from Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine in May 2024.

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Transforming Transfer at Selective Colleges and Universities

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Now that we can look at data from the fall 2017 cohort, we see just three percent of community college transfer students enrolled at selective schools. Matin Ghavamizadeh transferred from Los Angeles Valley College to the University of California, Berkeley to double major in applied mathematics/electrical engineering and computer science.

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Why did Allegheny cut its Chinese program?

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Departments and programs recommended for strategic investment, meanwhile, were Black studies, community and justice studies, computer science, education studies, environmental science, and political science. All other programs—including Chinese—were to be maintained.

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Would Free College Boost Humanities Majors?

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Blog: Just Visiting Last week, without putting much thought into it, I put up a Twitter poll asking: “In your opinion would more students major in the humanities if college was tuition free?” Computer science, STEM and medical majors have gobbled up the share that used to belong to the humanities.

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Supporting Non-Major Biology Students: Making the Classroom YOUnique

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Highlighting interdisciplinary applications, such as the role of biology in public health (communications majors), technology (computer science majors), or environmental policy (pollical science majors), can help students appreciate its broad impact. ” CBELife Sciences Education 16, no. 3 (2017): ar48.