Makers Making Change connects people with disabilities to volunteer makers to build assistive technologies.
Meet some of the many other scientists and engineers who have hurdled physical or medical barriers to find rewarding careers in research.
The aim is to support visually impaired and blind people with a device, that allows to record audio in the .WAV format on a SD card and call that information by an NFC tag.
Over her career, Dr. Roemer is credited with the recovery of 79 comets, the discovery of two asteroids, and the co-discovery of Jupiter’s moon, Themisto.
Leonard’s role as secretary was complex.
For Women’s History Month, we are focusing on three women who are represented in our collections: Dr. Elizabeth Roemer, Wrexie Louise Leonard, and Elizabeth Langdon Williams.
Dr. Lauren Esposito spills the beans on how venom works, what’s up with the blacklight glow effect, how dangerous they *really* are, what all the movies get wrong, the best names for scorpions, where she’s traveled to look under rocks, where a scorpion’s butt is, if scorpions dance or make out (SPOILER: YES), what good mothers they are, how big they used to be millions of years ago and how — technically speaking — they are not poisonous.
Today on the show, Short Wave host Maddie Sofia and reporter Emily Kwong speak with AI policy analyst Mutale Nkonde about algorithmic bias — how facial recognition software can discriminate and reflect the biases of society.
A repository of teaching materials and methods aimed at enhancing human diversity and inclusivity in biology courses.
Since the experiences and realities across different racial, ethnic, and gender groups are complex and unique, here is a list of free resources broken down by group to help foster professional growth and development for members of these underrepresented students and professionals.
We’ve listed some of the most inspiring, innovative individuals and organizations making a difference for the LGBTQ+ tech community.
Female scientists at Los Alamos are not often discussed, but they played an integral role in the creation of the atomic bomb.
