Winter College on Optics looks at light-based applications in Earth and Space

TRIESTE, Italy, and BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA (PRWEB) March 13, 2015 Apropos for the International Year of Light, the 2015 Winter College on Optics in Trieste followed the theme “Light: a Bridge between Earth and Space.” The college drew 93 participants from 33 countries and ran 9-20 February at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical […]

Scientist Looks to Space and Discovers Formula for Lasting Love

St. Louis, MO (PRWEB) January 28, 2015 From a NASA space mission designer comes the latest in romance forecasting – Nanaya. Nanaya is the brain child of systems engineer and Washington University in Saint Louis physics graduate student Rashied Amini. Amini is launching Nanaya as a new concept in decision making web applications that affirms […]

New AIR Report Looks at Ph.D. Gender Imbalance in Academic Fields

Washington, D.C. (PRWEB) September 30, 2014 A new American Institutes for Research (AIR) research brief identifies the most gender imbalanced academic fields in which Ph.D.s are awarded. In the STEM field, animal sciences and mathematics had far more men earning doctorates while forestry, information science/studies and three categories of engineering had more women. The findings […]