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

Boston University School of Medicine STaRS program welcomes undergrads from around the country

"This unique program is designed for the first time to truly prepare these PhD candidates for their work as teaching assistants, a standard requirement for all such students," associate professor says

Standard laboratory courses in which students carry out classical experiments to recreate established results did not effectively engage STEM students

Test difficulty may be the cause behind lower scores of females; socioeconomic status also found to have effect

“The HACCP plan is a budget buster, and the Cornell food science students gave my little business an opportunity to go from small business to a medium-sized business."

Program provides nearly $400,000 towards various scientfic education initiatives and research 

In a survey of nearly 6,000 doctoral students in a broad range of fields, more than a third of the students with plans to pursue postdocs said they had more interest in careers outside of academic research

Lab is the only one of its kind that lets researchers collect data simultaneously on several people while they are interacting