This year’s grant program includes the Elementary School Science Olympiad Program (ESSOP) which awarded more than $38,000 in various increments to 22 area schools to purchase scientific equipment

“We found that if you give them access to same opportunities, then girls and boys have the same response—equal interest and confidence,” researcher says

Over recent decades and across the globe women have surpassed men in college enrollment and degree attainment yet women remain underrepresented in physical, engineering, mathematics, and computer sciences

The more religious people are, the lower children in that country perform in science and mathematics, according to new research at Leeds Beckett University

“Our finding, that female residents in emergency medicine receive lower scores than males across all sub-competencies really implicates bias rather than a deficit in specific skills or knowledge,” researcher says

Report states that more widespread dissemination of such data could assist potential and current developers of such experiences

Study examines how parents can build interest of high schoolers in math, science

BioEYES, a program that brings live fish into classrooms to teach the fundamentals of biology, operates in 104 U.S. schools

Researchers took a hard look at the existing data on the state of U.S. science literacy, the questions asked, and the methods used to measure what Americans know and don’t know about science and how that knowledge has changed over time

About half of all students from historically underrepresented minority backgrounds say they want to pursue science when they start out as undergraduates, but only about 17% of those students currently go on to earn bachelor’s degrees in science