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Legislative Action Can Tackle Los Angeles’s Idle Oil Well Problem
Legislative Action Can Tackle Los Angeles’s Idle Oil Well Problem
Home to the nation’s largest urban oil field, Los Angeles also houses over 3,100 “idle” oil wells that haven’t been properly…
Natalie Gehred
Jul 26
Immigrant Graduate Students and Postdocs Enhance U.S. Research and Innovation
Immigrant Graduate Students and Postdocs Enhance U.S. Research and Innovation
The U.S. research enterprise is dependent upon the best and brightest STEM talent contributing to scientific innovation.
Adriana Bankston
Jun 27
California Should Use Green Infrastructure Funding to Employ Formerly-Incarcerated People
California Should Use Green Infrastructure Funding to Employ Formerly-Incarcerated People
The lack of adequate employment opportunities for formerly-incarcerated people severely restricts their ability to build stable lives
Jon Judd
Jun 27
Equity, Efficiency, Engagement: Strengthening Community Engagement in Illinois’ Retrofit Program
Equity, Efficiency, Engagement: Strengthening Community Engagement in Illinois’ Retrofit Program
Illinois must require more effective community engagement in its building retrofit programs in order to equitably boost energy efficiency
Broderick Johnson
Jun 15
Improving K-12 STEM Education in the U.S — What Are Most Important?
Improving K-12 STEM Education in the U.S — What Are Most Important?
Addressing Challenges and Driving Success: Key Strategies for Advancing K-12 STEM Education in the U.S.
Uche Samuel Osuji
Jun 5
Compensation for Radiation Victims Set to Expire Without U.S. House Action
Compensation for Radiation Victims Set to Expire Without U.S. House Action
Without action, the entire compensation program expires in June, leaving affected individuals and families without a simple recourse.
Ryan Nesselrodt
May 14
How Scientists Can Enhance Scientific Research Through Legislative Change in the CHIPS and Science…
How Scientists Can Enhance Scientific Research Through Legislative Change in the CHIPS and Science…
I’m a researcher with a PhD in Biochemistry, Cell and Developmental Biology from Emory University. However, I didn’t go on to work in the…
Adriana Bankston
May 8
We need a direct connection between climate change and the federal One Health Policy
We need a direct connection between climate change and the federal One Health Policy
Written by Chia Chun Angela Liang
Chia Chun Angela Liang
Mar 1
Improving data and policies to support LGBTQ+ people in STEM
Improving data and policies to support LGBTQ+ people in STEM
Shane Coffield, Kolin Clark, Anna Dye, Colbie Chinowsky, Briana Niblick, Marco Reggiani, Bryce Hughes, Alfredo Carpineti, Randall Hughes…
Shane Coffield
Nov 3, 2023
New York State of STEM: Empowering policymakers with scientific and technical expertise
New York State of STEM: Empowering policymakers with scientific and technical expertise
NYS lacks a STEM-specific policy fellowship program and existing programs are not designed to optimally recruit STEM professionals.
Emily Laurilliard
Aug 7, 2023
More than a data point: Embedding of gender in the development of digital agriculture technology
More than a data point: Embedding of gender in the development of digital agriculture technology
Data-driven and digital agriculture is seen as a set of disruptive technologies with wide-ranging potential to transform food systems
Alwin Hopf
Aug 7, 2023
Investing in Offshore Wind Energy While Protecting Migratory Birds
Investing in Offshore Wind Energy While Protecting Migratory Birds
Key strategies for harm mitigation
Natalie R. Pilgeram
Aug 7, 2023
Understanding and Preventing Campus Sexual Violence against International Students
Understanding and Preventing Campus Sexual Violence against International Students
Universities should collect better data, train first responders and make resources accessible.
Yezi Yang
Aug 7, 2023
Raising Children, Earning Degrees
Raising Children, Earning Degrees
Childcare Benefits for the University of Texas System Graduate Students to Increase Student Diversity and Dignity
Taylor C Roth
Aug 7, 2023
From Chaos to Clarity: Reinventing Science Communication After COVID-19
From Chaos to Clarity: Reinventing Science Communication After COVID-19
Steps Towards Effective Science Communication in National Health Emergencies
Miles J. Arnett
Aug 7, 2023
Build Capacity to Rethink and Rein in the ‘Wild West’ of an Increasingly Data- and AI-Driven World
Build Capacity to Rethink and Rein in the ‘Wild West’ of an Increasingly Data- and AI-Driven World
AI technologies have unleashed wide, unforeseen, and still unimaginable applications in the private and public sectors
Anastasia Bernat, Data Scientist
Aug 7, 2023
Tree Equity and Atlanta’s 50% Canopy Goal
Tree Equity and Atlanta’s 50% Canopy Goal
Protecting the “City In a Forest” for All Atlantans
Michelle A McCauley
Aug 7, 2023
Reduce Prestige Bias and Inequity in Faculty Hiring: UC the Solution?
Reduce Prestige Bias and Inequity in Faculty Hiring: UC the Solution?
Addressing a pervasive problem in the academia.
Richard Tran
Aug 7, 2023
Harmful Algal Blooms
Harmful Algal Blooms
What are the health and environmental impacts of harmful algal blooms?
Krystina Hird
Aug 7, 2023
Establish national standards for supporting STEM graduate students
Establish national standards for supporting STEM graduate students
Graduate programs can improve graduate student retention by adopting clear and comprehensive standards
Ale Villegas Lopez
Aug 7, 2023
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