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Conference shows Utah girls that science is a great career path

(Brian Maffly, Salt Lake Tribune) -- Orem • To get students interested in biology, Jamie Jensen subjects them to the peroxide challenge. In this exercise, you put a food item in a test tube and douse it with hydrogen peroxide. “Awesome, eh,” the Utah Valley University assistant professor of biology told a roomful of girls Saturday. The peroxide bubbled...

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Students are Avoiding STEM

The number of students majoring in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) are declining.  This situation is not new in the history of the United States.  We have seen this type of headline before.  What is new in the present "crisis" is that we are at a time when many current scientists, engineers, and mathematicians are retiring and leaving the...

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