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Inviting Community College Students to See Themselves as University Researchers

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Me being a first-generation student, I've never had the resources to be able to step into education. For Garcia, the experience not only got her more engaged at her community college, but also prompted her to consider pursuing additional higher education, too. She signed up. “Me What is there to be so scared of?’”

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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

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The idea that exam results should be assessed differently based on a student’s socio-economic background is known as differential treatment, and Emil is investigating whether such policies can improve equality and efficiency in education and labour markets. What other policies can reduce inequality in education and labour markets?

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The importance of community for reducing social isolation

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In others, guest speakers give presentations about topics the women are interested in, such as navigating the US education system for their children or the importance of vaccinations. As the data manager, I work closely with all the project data as they journey from the study participants to the data analysis team.

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How can we unravel the complex history of networks?

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Dr Min Xu, a statistician specialising in network analysis at Rutgers University, has developed a probabilistic model that can determine how a network has grown, which not only has applications in epidemiology, but is also useful in social science, genetics and counter-terrorism efforts. What is a network? “A

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Imaging the invisible: how can research software and imaging techniques help scientists study the things we can’t see?

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Because computational methods originated in the natural sciences, some disciplines, such as chemistry and physics, have lots of research software at their disposal. Alistair develops super-resolution microscopes and new data analysis techniques which he uses to collaborate on experiments with other biologists and medics.