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ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — An assistant professor of computer science at Bard College has been awarded $31,657 as part of a larger cancer study funded by the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health, the college said Tuesday. Assistant Professor Kerri-Ann Norton’s study uses computer models to investigate the potential success of novel drug […]
David McMillon was a middle schooler in Saginaw when he dreamed of space travel and outer space. Anthony Della Pella was working in his high school library when he found a book on theoretical math—and his direction in his educational life. But the route to a doctorate degree in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics for students like McMillon, who is Black, and Della Pella, a first-generation college graduate from River Rouge, isn’t always clear cut. Trachette Jackson, a University of Michigan math professor, says that many students face biases, inequalities and ba...