Gender Inequities Throughout STEM

Journal Article | January 2022

Efforts to promote equity and inclusion using evidence-based approaches are vital to correcting long-standing societal inequities that have disadvantaged women and discouraged them from pursuing studies, including in…

Exploration Geologist Quinton Hennigh

Journal Article | February 2021

Exploration geologists, colloquially known as prospectors, look for new sources of mineral deposits. They use a mix of geological, geophysical, and geochemical knowledge to analyze data and test hypotheses about where…

Using Publicly Available Long-Term Climate Records in Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Big Data Curriculum

Journal Article | October 2021

Understanding data analysis and interpreting data are key components of teaching interdisciplinary undergraduate students. We detail a semester-long research project that introduces students to long-term data sets,…

Teacher Spotlight: Veronica Wylie

Journal Article | October 2021

Student Performance in Ground Versus Online Sections of a Biological Science I College Course

Journal Article | October 2021

This study is a comparison of ground-based versus online student performance using a combination of common final examination scores and associated demographic data in a biological science college course taught by a…

Using Proxy Data to Understand Climate History

Journal Article | April 2023

Teacher Spotlight: Roger Blevins

Journal Article | April 2021

How Does Our Garden Grow?

Journal Article | April 2022

Star Struck!

Journal Article | July 2023

Faculty Learning at the Individual and Group Level

Journal Article | June 2021

Unaware of the diverse challenges faced by students, faculty can unintentionally create environments that discourage student persistence especially for students who are historically underrepresented in STEM. However,…

Modeling the Melting of Permafrost

Journal Article | March 2022

Why Should Science Teachers Practice Gratitude in 2021?

Journal Article | January 2021

Symbols in Physics

Journal Article | April 2021

Symbols are a cornerstone of the written language of physics and mathematics but inconsistencies in their use pose a challenge to students. This article reports on interviews held with first-year undergraduate physics…

Integrated Concentration in Science

Journal Article | January 2022

The Integrated Concentration in Science (iCons) 4-year program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst was designed to promote interdisciplinary STEM collaboration in the solution of real-world problems and encourage…

Where on Earth Is Mars?

Journal Article | November 2022