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Studying for exams? Here’s how to make your memory work for you
Knowing how your memory works can help you study better. (from shutterstock.com) Amina Youssef-Shalala, Australian Catholic University Have you ever thought about how your brain...
Half of employers say they are less inclined to recruit obese candidates –...
Obesity is one of the most pressing and controversial public health challenges. It has the distinction of being a crisis about which most people have an opinion – often based on...
Advice for balancing motherhood and a scientific career
Olivia Carter, University of Melbourne jmb_craftypickle Question: What is the effect of motherhood on a scientific career? Answer: New perspectives and altered...
Study of 1.6 million grades shows little gender difference in maths and science...
Boys and girls perform about the same in STEM at school so why the gender gap later in life? Shutterstock/LightField Studios Rose O'Dea, UNSW and Shinichi Nakagawa, UNSW There...
Is a scientific career worth it?
Andrew Whitehouse, University of Western Australia One of the most enjoyable aspects of my job is the talks that I am asked to give to graduating university classes and at...
Blueprint emerges for helping women patent, commercialize research
The theme of International Women’s Day this past March may have been “gender parity,” but at the rate things are going, women won’t file as many patents as men in a...
The professor of the future: Digital and critical
Giving a TED talk and/or tweeting are becoming expected parts of an up-and-coming digital professor’s job. (William Saito), CC BY-NC-ND Markus Giesler, York University,...
Students who do nothing but study may struggle to get a job
Make the most of being a student. iko/www.shutterstock.com Pathik Pathak, University of Southampton Ernst and Young was the first prominent graduate employer to decide that its...
As students near graduation, career and technical education provides a boost
Students work on an experiment in a biotech class at Antioch High School in Antioch, California. AP Photo/ Ben Margot Jay Stratte Plasman, University of California, Santa...
People, funding and constant learning are key to creating research excellence
Brenda Wingfield, University of Pretoria It’s been 20 years since I took up a position as a professor in the Department of Genetics at the University of Pretoria in South...