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

The study also shows that teachers give lower ratings to girls’ math skills when girls and boys have similar achievement and behavior

"This study indicates that there may be promising nontraditional options for attracting and retaining women in science,” researcher says

The grant, which will be used to purchase new equipment, comes from the Air Force Research Laboratory’s STEM program

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

Over the past several years, the U.S. has ranked low among other nations in numbers of students proficient in math and science, as well as skilled workers in those fields

"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

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