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Middle Tennessee State University geosciences professor Mark Abolins recalls that moving from his native California to Tennessee centered around caves.

The department of statistics and operations research, better known as STOR, will introduce a data science minor in fall 2021 that is designed to appeal to students majoring in a broad array of disciplines. The minor is an important component of the soon-to-launch data science initiative, a pan-University effort. When people hear “data science,” they might think of tech jobs: programming the algorithms that generate the ads that pop up on social media or the statistical analysis used to predict online behavior. Research scientists of course use data science in such diverse fields as genomi...

When the New York Times published a widely read, two-partexposé of labor abuse and poor working conditions at New York City-area nail salons in 2015, Diana Ceballos was part of a team of occupational health experts called upon by the state Department of Health to assess salon working environments and nail technicians’ exposure to unsafe chemicals. As a chemical engineer with a PhD in environmental and occupational hygiene, Ceballos was working at the time as an industrial hygienist for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), where she measured and analyzed the i...