Outperforming yet undervalued: Undergraduate women in STEM

Anthrax undervalued zoonosis.

Anthrax is a non-contagious disease, known since ancient times. However, it became a matter of global public interest after the bioterrorist attacks in the U.S.A. during the autumn of 2001. The concern of politicians and civil authorities everywhere towards this emergency necessitated a significant research effort and the prevention of new bioterrorist acts. Anthrax is primarily a disease that ...

Southeastern Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics

Splines are a well-known construction originally developed for engineering applications but now used widely in algorithms in computer graphics, differential equations, numerical analysis, and other fields. Billera and others pioneered a more theoretical approach to splines using high-powered techniques from algebra. Over the last fifteen years, geometers and topologists independently rediscover...

Are We There Yet? Biases in Hiring Women Faculty Candidates.

T here's quite a debate in the popular press right now on the topic of how women are faring in the academic STEM fields. On one hand, we have a Nobel Laureate unapologetically calling for single sex laboratories 1 because " girls " distract male scientists, and on the other hand, we have a group of human ecology researchers claiming a significant hiring preference for women over men in STEM fac...

‘‘Not Yet Classified” Abnormal Uterine Bleeding in Reproductive-age Women

Objective: Abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) is a common problem among women in reproductive age. Not always is their cause easy to establish and in those cases not yet classified abnormal uterine bleeding is diagnosed. The aim of this study was the analysis of the clinical and histopathological results of the endometrium evaluation in women with initially diagnose of not yet classified bleeding ...

Viewpoint: Pericardiocentesis--is it undervalued?