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New research may explain shortages in STEM careers
6 hours ago
The study focuses on students who change plans within the pipeline
A new study by the University of Georgia revealed that more college students change majors within the STEM pipeline than leave the career path of science, technology, engineering and mathematics altogether.
Funded by a National Institutes of Health grant and a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship and done in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin, the study examined interviews, surveys and institutional data from 1,193 students at a U.S. midwestern university for more than six years to observe a single area of the STEM pipeline: biomedical fields of study.
Web-based tool seeks to fill health care workforce gaps
4 hours ago
C2-Health aims to have more qualified health care providers during pandemic
When the pandemic hit the United States last year, researchers saw an immediate need to increase the capacity of qualified health care providers to address the spreading coronavirus. Janette Hill, co-principal investigator and a professor in the Mary Frances Early College of Education’s department of career and information studies, helped to create C2-Health, a National Science Foundation RAPID grant-funded project.
By creating a web-based tool that individuals and employers can use to explore health care-related competency frameworks, self-identify skill gaps and find credentials and training, this project aims to serve the national need of increasing the capacity to have more qualified health care providers to address the challenges of COVID-19. This tool will help individuals identify health care areas where they have adjacent s