by Iliyah | May 22, 2019 | Engineering and Tech, STEM Education
Many of the greatest challenges currently facing humanity, such as climate change and effective urbanisation, are multifaceted and intricate, with multiple moving parts. Complex systems analysts pull data and insights from diverse components to generate dynamic models...
by Iliyah | Apr 4, 2019 | Biology, Earth and Environment, Engineering and Tech, Health and Medicine, Physical Science, Social Sciences, STEM Education
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation promotes academic cooperation between excellent scientists and scholars from abroad and from Germany. To this end, it grants more than 700 research fellowships and research awards annually. These allow researchers from all over...
by Iliyah | Mar 6, 2019 | Earth and Environment, Engineering and Tech
Coastal environments have immense ecological, practical, recreational and cultural value, and are under threat from multiple natural and anthropogenic stressors. Dr Brian Glazer and his team at the University of Hawai’i use specialised equipment to conduct remote...
by Iliyah | Feb 13, 2019 | Engineering and Tech
In the past few years, speech recognition has become a new standard for state-of-the-art technology. We now talk to our phones as much as we talk on them. How can helping machines learn to listen improve our understanding of how our own brains work? Dr Harald Baayen...
by Iliyah | Jan 25, 2019 | Engineering and Tech, Physical Science, STEM Education
A secure and sustainable energy supply for the future depends upon communities and industries working together. To facilitate this, a skilled STEM workforce is needed. To that end, Dr Pankaj Sharma a courtesy professor at Purdue University and his colleagues have...
by Iliyah | Jan 24, 2019 | Engineering and Tech, STEM Education
Much of the responsibility of improving science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education has fallen upon teachers. However, it is often just assumed that they have the tools and skills needed to fulfil that responsibility. Dr Pankaj Sharma a courtesy...
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