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Cyber security for the AI age

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Digitalisation is helping organisations to enhance communication and collaboration efforts, to innovate, and to stay competitive,” says Dr Burcu Bulgurcu, a cyber security researcher at Toronto Metropolitan University. Cyber security breaches are rarely due to issues with the cyber security technology itself.

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How can place attachment improve scientific literacy?

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Ben is working with Dr Julia Parrish, a professor at the University of Washington, who is also the Executive Director of the Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team (COASST), an environmental, hands-on citizen science programme. Citizen science allows people to choose what project appeals to them, and engage in ways suited to them.

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Is Economics STEM – Why Colleges Want Economics to Be a STEM Major

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Recently, five of the eight Ivy League universities have reclassified their economics degrees from social science to science, technology, math, and engineering (STEM). Economics Employs Math for Concise Communication There’s no doubt that economics is part of the social sciences, given that it studies human behavior.

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5 Strategies for Inspiring an Inclusive STEM Culture in Your School

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Highlighting diverse STEM role models such as astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson , astronaut Mae Jemison , science communicator Stephanie Castillo , or molecular biologists Tsuneko and Reiji Okazaki shows students that everyone can achieve success in STEM disciplines.

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How can we combat ageism in society and healthcare?

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When society holds negative views of ageing, we are all affected, because we are all ageing,” says Dr Sherry Dahlke, a nurse researcher at the University of Alberta. Learning by example Social learning theory suggests that how we learn is influenced by how people act around us.

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Delve Talks: Winnie Karanja, Maydm

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As a high school student, Winnie had a passion for both math and the social sciences. Her teachers pushed her into the “easier” path of social sciences rather than encourage her interest in STEM subjects. And throughout my sort of high school experience, I’d been, you know, passionate about social sciences.

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