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The Expansion of CS4HS: An Outreach Program for High School Teachers.

Acm, Blum L, Cortina TJ, Lazowska E, Wise J.
UIID-AD: 900
2008;377-378.

No abstract available.

Second Annual Robotics Summer Camp for Underrepresented Students.

Acm, Cannon K, Panciera K, Papanikolopoulos N.
UIID-AD: 930
2007;14-18.

The University of Minnesota Center for Distributed Robotics and the Digital Technology Center hosted the second annual Technology Day Camp, a week long camp targeting underrepresented students such as girls, African Americans, and Hispanics from the Twin Cities metro...

Overcoming Underrepresentation of Women Physics Teachers in Cameroon: Preliminary Study.

Boyomo M, Kom GH, Siebatcheu B, Asse ML, Woulache R, Mvoudjo E.
UIID-AD: 905
2009;1119:93-94.

At a time when much energy is being spent all over the world to bring women into the fast-developing world of science, it is regrettable that these efforts are still at their genesis in Cameroon. It is however, worth...

The mathematics of sex: How biology and society conspire to limit talented women and girls.

Ceci StephenJ, Williams WendyM.
UIID-AD: 1556
2010;

Nearly half of all physicians and biologists are females, as are the majority of new psychologists, veterinarians, and dentists, suggesting that women have achieved equality with men in the workforce. But the tanks of professionals in math-intensive careers remain...

Undergraduate research as an institutional retention strategy: The University of Michigan Model.

Locks AngelaM, Gregerman SandraR.
UIID-AD: 30
2008;11-32.

This chapter describes the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) at the University of Michigan. After describing the institutional context of the program, the authors outline the program rationale, which was to encourage retention among historically underrepresented students in science,...

Development of Mathematics Teaching Assistants.

Cheng HD.
UIID-AD: 211
2010;1052-1055.

Teaching assistants play vital roles in the mathematics education of undergraduates and may become mathematics professors. Patterns of teaching practice, as well as beliefs about teaching and learning, form early in teachers' careers. This article contains reviews of teaching...

'Underrepresentation' or Misrepresentation?.

Kimura Doreen.
UIID-AD: 1846
2007;39-46. doi: 10.1037/11546-003.

The word underrepresentation as the theme of this volume says much about the bias we contend with in attempting a rational discussion of sex differences. It has become standard form to assume that if there are fewer than 50%...

The Seeds of Career Choices: Prenatal Sex Hormone Effects on Psychological Sex Differences.

Berenbaum SheriA, Resnick Susan.
UIID-AD: 1473
2007;147-157. doi: 10.1037/11546-012.

There is not a simple answer to the question "Why aren't more women in science?" Much of the debate surrounding this question has focused on whether sex differences in cognition are responsible for the underrepresentation of women in science....

The role of online networks in the retention of underrepresented minority STEM majors: A foundation for research and action.

Collins AB, Caso MR.
UIID-AD: 826
2005;184-189.

This literature review on social networks and communities attempts to provide the theoretical foundation for an online network and community to be designed and built to promote undergraduate self efficacy, retention and progression to graduate school among geographically dispersed...

Using quasi-experimental design and the curriculum vitae to evaluate impacts of earmarked center funding on faculty productivity, collaboration, and grant activity.

Bozeman B, Gaughan M, Ponomariov B.
UIID-AD: 440
2007;305-313.

Academic research conducted within multidisciplinary science centers developed rapidly during the 1980s in response to several federal initiatives in the United States. In this study, we examine the effect of a Congressionally-mandated multidisciplinary center program on the careers of...

Where Are All the Women? Gender Differences in Participation in Physical Science and Engineering.

Eccles JacquelynneS.
UIID-AD: 1654
2007;199-210. doi: 10.1037/11546-016.

Women continue to be underrepresented in programs in physical science and engineering and on the university and college faculties in all of the natural sciences, engineering, and mathematics. Why? Our analyses suggest that the main source of gender differences...

INSPIRED: Promoting Diversity, Retention, Outreach and Globalization Readiness.

Ieee, Doerschuk P, Mann J, Liu JJ.
UIID-AD: 759
2008;139-140.

The Increasing Student Participation in Research Development Program ("INSPIRED"), funded by a National Science Foundation Broadening Participation in Computing Grant, is designed to increase the participation of women and minorities in computing. This is needed to meet the growing...

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