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Studying physics to improve healthcare systems

Physics World

I majored in physics during my undergraduate degree with a minor in chemistry and mathematics. And during that time, I worked as a physics lecturer at the National Institute of Science and Technology , acquiring experience in teaching and advising undergraduate students. How did you decide which specific course to enrol on?

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ESA Shows its Support for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in College Admissions

ESA

The Supreme Court ruling today reversed decades of progress under affirmative action by severely limiting the use of race in college admissions. ESA voices its strong commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion and support for its members. Ecology is a field of study that celebrates diversity of all kinds.

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Building a Future for Black Farmers: An Interview with Legal Expert Dãnia Davy

Union of Concerned Scientists

My background is in public health, where my undergraduate thesis was about maternal mortality disparities. USDA, by its own admission, has documented instances where Black and other farmers of color [were] horribly discriminated against by local loan officers. How did you become interested in heirs’ property?

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Where did all the calculus go?

Physics World

Since then, I have had many similar conversations with other university physics lecturers who mourn the lack of mathematical fluency in their first-year undergraduate students. Admissions tutors instead preferred to accept students who had benefited from this “double study”. I should add that this physicist’s views were not a one-off.

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A most improbable physicist: how Hakeem Oluseyi survived a troubled early life and went on to succeed in physics

Physics World

After dropping out and working as a janitor for some months, Oluseyi re-enrolled with a new attitude, improved his grades, double-majored in physics and mathematics, and was accepted to graduate school at Stanford University as a diversity admission.

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Fighting algorithmic bias in artificial intelligence

Physics World

In 2011, during her undergraduate degree at Georgia Institute of Technology, Ghanaian-US computer scientist Joy Buolamwini discovered that getting a robot to play a simple game of peek-a-boo with her was impossible – the machine was incapable of seeing her dark-skinned face. of all undergraduate students in 2018, but only 1.7%