The researchers were recognized for their separate work on asymmetric organocatalysis, which the award-giving body said was "a new and ingenious tool for molecule building."
Louisiana s vaccination rates largely mirror 2020 voting patterns and education lines, with parishes that voted for President Donald Trump in 2020 and where residents have low rates of college degree attainment less likely to get vaccinated, data shows.
Around one-third of Louisiana residents have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, data from the Louisiana Department of Health shows. But in some parishes, less than a fifth of residents have received a COVID-19 dose.
COVID-19 vaccination has been politically polarized since the vaccines began rolling out. The 2020 Louisiana Survey found a significant difference in the number of people willing to get the vaccine along party lines.
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Efforts to promote equity and inclusion in science, technology, engineering and math have a long way to go, a new report suggests.
Over the last year, widespread protests in response to the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and other unarmed Black people have sparked calls for racial justice in STEM. Social media movements such as #BlackinSTEM have drawn attention to discrimination faced by Black students and professionals, and the Strike for Black Lives challenged the scientific community to build a more just, antiracist research environment (
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An analysis released in early April of federal education and employment data from recent years highlights how wide the racial, ethnic and gender gaps in STEM representation are. “This has been an ongoing conversation in the science community” for decades, says Cary Funk, the director of science and society research at the Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C. Because the most recent data come
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