Sentences with phrase «women students pursuing»

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Northeastern University has a summer program supporting middle - school students in the sciences, and MIT has a program to encourage women to pursue STEM degrees.

The Stitt Award provides vital assistance for graduate students to pursue opportunities to share their work, and Shirley Watkins expressed her appreciation for the woman behind it.

This helps to explain why many women and students of color shy away from pursuing science and engineering careers.

«Brief exposure to charismatic career women inspires female students to pursue same field: Easy, inexpensive experiment briefly sent inspiring role models into intro to econ classes and sharply increased college female interest in the male - dominated, well - paying field of economics.»

Top female college students were inspired to pursue a major in economics when exposed very briefly to charismatic, successful women in the field, according to SMU economist Danila Serra.

Few U.S. college students have the necessary academic background to transfer into a STEM field, experts say, and many women and minority students who want to pursue STEM degrees are said to be frozen out by a chilly climate.

Many of the students attending ERN are drawn from programs funded by NSF's Division of Human Resources Development, which provides several opportunities for underrepresented minorities, women, and people with disabilities to pursue research and education in STEM fields.

The objective of the group is straightforward, says Tate: to encourage women graduate students, who are interested in pursuing an academic career, «to take time to think about where we are going, ask questions we're afraid to ask, and discuss the many paths that a successful academic career can follow.»

The AAAS Mentor Award honors AAAS members who have mentored significant numbers of underrepresented students, including women, minorities, and persons with disabilities, pursuing Ph.D.'s in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), and who have demonstrated scholarship, activism, and community building on behalf of underrepresented groups in STEM fields.

This IGB funding scheme finances the return of men and women in temporary employment relationships following parental leave; it also enables our young researchers to pursue guest stays and employ student assistants, as well as giving them the time to write project proposals.

One of his students, Jill (Emma Stone), takes an interest in Abe and all his misery, as does a lonely professor named Rita (Parker Posey), but despite being romantically pursued by a young girl and a gorgeous woman, Abe remains a Debbie Downer.

«How Schools Shortchange Girls» concluded that female students receive less attention from their teachers than boys do, are less apt to see girls and women reflected in their study materials, and are often not expected or encouraged to pursue higher - level mathematics and science.

Yet within the small haven of the beauty school, the line between teacher and student quickly blurred as these vibrant women shared with Rodriguez their stories and their hearts: the newlywed who faked her virginity on her wedding night, the twelve - year - old bride sold into marriage to pay her family's debts, the Taliban member's wife who pursued her training despite her husband's constant beatings.

Women's grants make it possible for female students of all backgrounds to pursue educational programs and careers that have historically not been available to wWomen's grants make it possible for female students of all backgrounds to pursue educational programs and careers that have historically not been available to womenwomen.

The first person stories of students of game development will provide insight into what works in inspiring women to pursue careers in game making.