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The Mediterranean way: changing diets to extend lifespans

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Limited access to healthy food is a significant contributor to this trend.” To change this trend, it is essential to make healthier foods more accessible and to encourage behavioural changes in those people with unhealthy diets. “We Alice’s team has worked hard to make Good Bowls as accessible as possible.

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Living in a material world: the importance of materials science and engineering

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To discover these properties, scientists ‘test materials to destruction’ – they deliberately break the material and record the force needed to achieve this. Expertise in physics and chemistry is needed to explore material properties, while engineering skills are needed to manufacture and test materials. How easily is it stretched?

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How can engineering address human rights issues?

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Across Peru, thousands of people do not have access to clean water or efficient transport links. Access to water and sanitation are fundamental human rights. By combining engineering and human rights disciplines, he is researching the links between access to transport and the inequalities facing Peruvians today.

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SHAPE in Schools: Changing mindsets in support of social sciences, humanities and the arts

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Organisations involved in SHAPE in Schools British Academy, London School of Economics (LSE), Cardiff University, UK Recent years have seen a strong drive in encouraging school students to take up further education and careers in STEM subjects. How are people’s lives affected if they cannot access shoes and are experiencing shoe poverty?

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Fire trackers: how can we use modelling techniques to predict where wildfires will occur?

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This type of fire is deliberately applied to a pre-determined area at the time, intensity and rate of spread required to achieve the desired management objectives, and occurs under a strict set of environmental conditions Fire suppression techniques — the various strategies for stopping a fire once it has started.

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List of 75+ STEM Careers, Jobs & Occupations

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By providing students with access to a quality STEM curriculum, they will be better prepared for future courses and have the confidence needed to pursue STEM careers. Environmental Engineer The Role: Environmental Engineers use principles of engineering, soil science, biology, and chemistry to solve environmental problems.

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What Image Comes to Your Mind When You Think of a “Doctor”?

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About 90% of STEM teacher graduates from our UTA teacher certification programs, the largest being the undergraduate UTeach Arlington program , are from diverse, economically disadvantaged school districts in the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) metroplex, where they return to teach. yours), instead give many examples.

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