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Join Our NC Science Blogging Conference Session Online on Saturday!

Karen Ventii has posted information about how to join our session online at the conference wiki. Here's the details: [The Gender and Race in Science Blogging] session will be broadcast LIVE on Saturday January 19 at 11am on Ustream.tv. Please tune in and participate online. Please note that you DO NOT have to register on Ustream to post comments. We look forward to hearing from you and reading your questions. Use the link above or copy and paste the address (http://ustream.tv/channel/gender-and-race-in-science-blogging) into your browser.

Important things for you to read

First, following Ethan's Fitness Challenge (to which I responded here) there is another new entry by Dunford here. Discovering Biology in a Digital World gears up for Science Online 2010: Citizen Science: all fun and no data? ScienceOnline 2010 Isis is branching out from the realm of incivility to the world of diversity, also at Science Online 10: Dr. Isis Continues to Ponder Diversity for #scio10. She's asking for your ideas as to how to respond to certain question about diversity. EM Johnson has the third (and I think final) installment of his Social Darwinism posts.

Links for 2012-05-04

Amazon.com: The Best Science Writing Online 2012 (9780374533342): Jennifer Ouellette, Bora Zivkovic: Books Showcasing more than fifty of the most provocative, original, and significant online essays from 2011, The Best Science Writing Online 2012 will change the way we think about science-- from fluids to fungi, poisons to pirates. Featuring noted authors and journalists as well as the brightest up-and-comers writing today, this collection provides a comprehensive look at the fascinating, innovative, and trailblazing scientific achievements and breakthroughs of 2011, along with elegant and…

Too Many Cultures

During my first semester of college I took an introductory chemistry class from a poet, playwright, and Nobel laureate -- that's all one guy, not three. His Nobel Prize is in chemistry, which made him more than qualified to teach us about acids, transition metals, and the other basics of chemistry. He also advocated a well rounded education, and he required we read The Periodic Table by Primo Levi. In addition to our exams and lab reports, we had to write an essay about one of Levi's short stories. I bring this up because the intro-chem instructor, Roald Hoffmann, gave a lecture last night…

What Is Really Required to Move to a Renewable Energy Future: The Lance Mannion Edition

A while ago, I raised the problem--an inconvenient truth, if you will--that moving to a renewable energy future is going to be difficult: My impression reading a lot of commentary about renewable energy is that there's this fantasy that we just have to build a bunch of windmills, install some solar panels, buy a Prius, and replace our windows and all will be well. But the brutal reality is that we need to urbanize our suburbs. We need to discourage detached housing. We need to massively fund local mass transit--not just SUPERTRAINS. We can't have people firing up their own personal combustion…

we wuz robbed

The proposed text of the law to bail out financial institutions is extraordinary to say the lease - the biggest blank check in world history is being written and given to a single person to share with his friends. Without review or recourse. NYTimes source of proposed text This is for $700 billion, at a time - the treasury can buy more crap if they manage to offload any after they max out. The idea is that the US government will buy unsellable debt off select financial institutions, who will basically get US Treasury bonds in return. The sale ought to be at some discount - which is the catch…

It's the Stupid Economy

Kevin Drum is pondering the economy: A few days ago, in passing, I remarked that I was impressed (surprised?) by the ability of our economy to absorb so much catastrophe in such a short time without things being even worse than they are. What accounts for this? He goes on to quote part of a proposed answer ("foreign capital," basically), which Brad DeLong has in more detail. Other versions of the same basic question have popped up a few other places, as well. My personal guess at an answer is pretty much in line with my recent reading: the good times were never all that good for the…

The "Monetary Diversion via Coffee" Effect

Lately, I've been thinking a lot about good old 0.7%. This is the hallmark figure suggested by Pearson as a target for foreign aid to developing nations. In other words, the main idea is that wealthy nations do something nice and set aside about 0.7% of the gross domestic product, so that the sorts of things that the UN Millennium Development Goals are focused on, can be proactively tackled. Problem is, that not many countries actually do this, and this is why you have people like Bono and Bob Geldof all in an uproar, etc, etc, etc. For example, the United States puts aside approximately…

All the Soda Pop You Can Drink - But Don't Tell Anyone

I spent a lot of time on airplanes in the last few weeks, and so I spent a lot of time reading in-flight magazines. Southwest's Spirit is not so bad. In the pages of the September edition I learned about Galco's Soda Pop Stop in Los Angeles, dedicated to preserving all the unique and tasty soda pops of the world. John Nese decided in 1995 to devote part of his small Los Angeles grocery store to the fizzy concoctions. Disturbed by the idea that Coke and Pepsi would forever wipe out his beloved rare sodas, Nese started stocking the goods. Along the way, he contacted small soda makers,…

Fastener Technology Puzzle

If you buy a loaf of bread, it comes in a plastic bag closed with either a metal twist-tie or a little plastic tab. Either of these may be re-used to close the bag again after you have used some of the bread. If you buy a bunch of carrots, they generally come in a plastic bag that is closed with a little piece of tape. The tape is generally stronger than the material of the bag, making it really hard to remove the tape without ripping the bag open. And even if you do get the tape undone, it can't be re-used. Why do they do that? I'm not any more likely to use the entire bag of carrots at once…

On Replacing Science Online

That's "Science Online" as in the conference that folded, not "science, online" as in the practice of trying to understand the universe from in front of a networked computer. Specifically, I'm posting about David Zaslavsky's call for help in putting together a replacement meeting. There was a lot of talk about this right when Science Online went under, but that's pretty much died down, at least in public. David's trying to get something more active going. This is, of course, a massive undertaking, and something fraught with peril. And it's not like I have any free time to make really…

ScienceOnline2010 - Program highlights 9

And today, to finish with the introductions to the sessions on the Program, here is what will happen on Sunday, January 17 at 11:30am - 12:35pm: A. Medical journalism - Walter Jessen and Karl Leif Bates Description: It could be argued that healthcare already has a "killer app" - search. According to research by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 61% of us look online for medical information. In an age of horizontal information distribution and social networks, what sort of medical information, disinformation and misinformation does one find? How do we fight publishers of medical…

Happy Darwin Day

Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. - Charles R. Darwin, the closing paragraph of the Origin Of Species, 1st edition, 1859. Support…

Comps readings: virtual communities

Sunday morning I was all set to do another essay - just had to pick a question source and question - when my mother in law called to say she would be stopping by at about the same time I would be finishing up the 2 hour window, leaving no time for emergency house cleaning (no, I haven't grown out of that yet despite being married for >10 years). So here are a few readings on "community" which I'll drop like a hot potato and then run to clean the house. Both Wellman and Rheingold dispute the idea that we're all " href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43599073">Bowling Alone" and assert…

Parents These Days

Ethan Zuckerman has an interesting addition to the discussion of class and networking, offering a description of a talk by danah boyd (whose name I have been capitalizing, which apparently isn't right) about the history and usage of MySpace and Facebook. What's particularly striking is the opening: danah began her discussion with two quotes, one from über-blogger Kathy Sierra's 16-year old daughter Skyler, who observed, "If you're not on MySpace, you don't exist." The other quote, from a 16-year old named Amy, explains the appeal of these spaces for some American teens: "My mom doesn't let…

The Future of the Quik N' Easy Meal

Busy week here, as Eric attempts to wind up his online teaching class, my parents descend for a week of family projects and fair going, and we deal with the daily realities of a rapidly-onrushing fall, complicated (happily) by a long trip and an early Jewish holiday season. So I give you something I wrote way back in 2007. The other day I thought I'd try out three "fast, easy, healthy, local" recipes that were sent to me from a green website that shall remain nameless because I'm not trying to give them a hard time - I appreciate what they are trying to do. Why? Because my job now is to…

Science Blogging FTW

As you might have noticed, I've added a new badge to the left sidebar. That's right - you can start submitting posts for next year's Open Laboratory already! So find your favorite science blog posts from around the interwebs that were published in the past couple months and get submitting! On a similar note, submissions are also open for the The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Communication Awards. These awards are "designed to recognize, promote, and encourage effective communication of science, engineering, medicine, and interdisciplinary work within and beyond the scientific…

Blogging with (bad) style

For, well, about 6 months now I've been meaning to riff on this riff about internet writing from Steamboats Are Ruining Everything. As I can't seem to get in tune, or plugged in, or somehting, I'll just let Steamboats take it away: If I were to interpret those tugs, I would say that writing on the internet tends to be more popular when it satisfies the reader's wish to be connected—the wish not to miss out. The writer, too, may have such a wish. I admit that I love it when another blog links to mine; there is great consolation in the feeling of having a posse. And of course many readers…

Mashable and the future cost of education

Here is an interesting article from Mashable: In the Future, the Cost of Education will be Zero In the article, the author Josh makes the following points: College is expensive and some people can't really afford it. There is a growing trend in online universities. University of the People is one example. Other universities are putting a lot of their material online - example MIT's OpenCourseWare project. There are a growing number of free textbooks available online. I would like to point to an example of a free physics textbook. Josh also points out that everyone should have a chance to…

Anti-Kerry but Pro-Moon?

Much has been made of the decision by Sinclair broadcasting to preempt regular programming to air an anti-Kerry documentary in 25% of the nation just before the election in a couple weeks. Democrats are predictably up in arms about it and want the FCC to step in; Republicans are predictably just fine with it. If the tables were turned, and a network or TV chain was showing Farenheit 911 just before the election, the argument would naturally be reversed, with each side taking the opposite position and pretending to be objectively right regardless; such is the nature of partisan politics.…

Best. Tweet. Ever. Or, library people at Science Online 2012

It all started with this innocent little tweet from @seelix: In going through the twitter list, I believe that half the #scio12 people are either a librarian, a marine scientist or named Emily. To which I responded: @seelix is there a marine science librarian named Emily? #scio12 @BoraZ had to chime in as well: The holotype #scio12-er RT @dupuisj: @seelix is there a marine science librarian named Emily? #scio12 With @seelix getting the last word: Found my new career path! RT @BoraZ The holotype #scio12-er RT @dupuisj: @seelix is there a marine science librarian named Emily? #scio12 Over the…

Medicine at ScienceOnline2010

Of course, our conferences always attract a nice contingent of physicians, nurses, medical journalists, biomedical researchers and med-bloggers, so it is not surprising that ScienceOnline2010 will also have sessions devoted to the world of medicine. Check them out: Medicine 2.0 and Science 2.0--where do they intersect? - Walter Jessen Description: Medicine 2.0 applications, services and tools are defined as Web-based services for healthcare consumers/patients, health professionals and biomedical researchers that use Web 2.0 technologies and/or semantic web and virtual reality approaches to…

Thomas Jefferson and Richard Dawkins

I'm looking for the source of a quote, attributed by Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion (p. 31) to Thomas Jefferson. Dawkins writes: Thomas Jefferson - better read - was of a similar opinion: 'The Christian God is a being of terrific character, cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.' I cannot find a citation online for this quote, and Dawkins does not provide one. The Jefferson archive at Virginia (which has over 1,700 items online) has a single document (a letter to William Short) which contains the phrase "a being of terrific character, cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust". In…

Medicine at ScienceOnline2010

Of course, our conferences always attract a nice contingent of physicians, nurses, medical journalists, biomedical researchers and med-bloggers, so it is not surprising that ScienceOnline2010 will also have sessions devoted to the world of medicine. Check them out: Medicine 2.0 and Science 2.0--where do they intersect? - Walter Jessen Description: Medicine 2.0 applications, services and tools are defined as Web-based services for healthcare consumers/patients, health professionals and biomedical researchers that use Web 2.0 technologies and/or semantic web and virtual reality approaches to…

Latest Toy Hazard: Asbestos

The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization, a group created by asbestos victims and their families, bought products from national retailers and had them tested at independent labs. One of the most disturbing findings was high levels of asbestos in powder from a toy CSI fingerprint kit. The powder is intended to be sprinkled on surfaces and brushed with a soft-bristle brush â creating conditions ripe for inhalation. Andrew Schneider reports on the groupâs findings in the Seattle P-I, and notes that CBS, which licenses the kit, has asked its licensees to have the kits tested immediately and to…

School Quality Can't Be Separated From Students (and Parents)

One of the key differences between those who favor educational 'reform'--that is, those who view education primarily as a personnel issue--and those that oppose it is how each group thinks good schools come to be. Consider this by Matthew Yglesias, an education reform supporter (italics mine): School funding inequities are obviously unfair, and I think we should get rid of them. Still, local governments are a distinct minority of school finance these days. It's also difficult to point to very clear correlations between per student funding and school performance. What's more, a school full of…

Nursing PLoS

Kim of Emergiblog explains nicely why you should support Open Access publishing: The Public Library of Science: You are writing a paper. You need to do some research, so you google your topic. Ah ha! There it is! The perfect article for your paper. The abstract is right in front of you, but you must go to the actual journal for the full text. Hmmm...you can access the full text of the article, but you must pay to do it! Anywhere from nine dollars to almost thirty dollars for twenty-four hour access. "No way", you say! "I have access to my university's online library, I'll just go there and…

Fornvännen's Spring Issue On-line

Fornvännen 2014:1 is now on-line on Open Access. We've had trouble with our on-line archive for more than a month. This was because the UV units, Sweden's largest contract archaeology organisation, moved from the umbrella of the National Heritage Board to that of the Swedish History Museum. The IT folks were super busy with the move, but now they've got Fornvännen's stuff up and running again. Sven Kalmring on evidence for contacts with Eastern Europe from the Viking town Hedeby. Anne Monikander on Early Iron Age strike-a-light stones. Robin Lindblad on Viking Period fishing and sheep…

Still more on social networks: Behaving yourself online!

This is the third in my informal trilogy on engaging in social media. The first two are here and here. I left off last time with this sentiment: It seems to me that one possibility if we want to engage these groups, is that we have to figure out where they already are and how we can fit into and improve that rather than try and build something completely new that we'll then try and entice everyone to join. Where do we go from here? Maybe if the communities we build were more accepting, civil and inclusive, that would be a start. Well, I like what Clay Shirky said recently about how our…

Library people at Science Online 2010

Following along in the tradition of Bora's introductions of the various attendees for the upcoming Science Online 2010 conference, I thought I'd list all the library people that are attended. I'm not going to try and introduce each of the library people, I'll leave that to Bora, but I thought it might be nice to have us all listed in one place. I did a quick list in my post a while back, but I revisited the attendee list after it closed and noticed a couple of people that weren't in the first list. As I said in the earlier post, there's been a good tradition of librarians and library people…

Never Say Goodbye: St. Andrew Beach Mouse

tags: St. Andrew Beach Mouse, Peromyscus polionotus peninsularis, Joel Sartore, National Geographic, image of the day St. Andrew Beach Mouse (Peromyscus polionotus peninsularis) 6,000 (Estimates range from 3,500 to 6,000). Image: Joel Sartore/National Geographic [larger view]. Joel Sartore has shared some of his work on this blog before, so I am thrilled to tell you that National Geographic also appreciates his exemplary work. You can view more endangered animals of the United States that were photographed by the talented Joel Sartore here at National Geographic online. All images appear…

Zoo School X-Press

Regular readers must be familiar by now with the ZooSchool in Asheboro, NC. Today's news from the school - their students have put up the first issue of their online newspaper, the ZSX-Press. Go check it out! In related news, and also at the Asheboro Zoo and related to education, The NC Zoo and NC Zoo Society will be hosting the No Child Left Inside Conference Thursday (today), March 6th, which will be held in the MPR [multi-purpose room] of the Stedman Education Building. I wish I could go. Perhaps someone there will write about it and post something online.

Spontaneous Generations

By way of Sage Ross, a graduate student in history of science at Yale: Spontaneous Generations is a new online academic journal published by graduate students at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto. The journal aims to establish a platform for interdisciplinary discussion and debate about issues that concern the community of scholars in HPS and related fields. Apart from selecting peer reviewed articles, the journal encourages a direct dialogue among academics by means of short editorials and focused discussion papers which highlight…

ScienceOnline2010 - interview with Misha Angrist

Continuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this series here. You can check out previous years' interviews as well: 2008 and 2009. Today, I asked Misha Angrist from Duke (and the blog GenomeBoy), the fourth person in the Personal Genome Project whose entire genome was sequenced (thus one of the first 20 humans with a sequenced genome), to answer a few questions. Welcome to A Blog Around The…

Getting published

Great post at Neil Gaiman's journal on getting an agent (via reddit). Covers much more ground than just agents. Read up. I liked these best: There is no substitute for writing a book that people want to buy and read. If you can do that, you can get published. If you can't, no clever workaround will help, because we can't force people to buy and read books they don't like. Be obviously and extraordinarily good. The first point above is common sense, the most uncommon of all senses. Please don't flatter yourself by imagining that it may hurt your creativity. On the second, a few years of…

Why shouldn't you sell your kidney for an iPad?

So the other week there was collective quivering over the internet at the news that a Chinese teenager had sold his kidney to pay for an iPad 2. I say quivering, because It was an immediate viral hit, a perfect combination of the pre-eminent SEO-friendly technology, body horror, stupid-teens-making-dumb-decisions-for-latest-must-have-item narrative and a conveniently obscure provenance, as if the story had been precisely manufactured by the same Shenzhen factories that Apple uses to make its gadgets. And so, the world rolled its eyes and tutted at the foolishness of youth and decried Steve…

How Much Should Money Cost? (And Whom Should You Pay?)

It's an odd-sounding question, but, if you use a debit card, a very important one. I bring this up as The Huffington Post recently published an article about the political battle over the fees banks charge stores when customers use their credit and debit cards. While the article--and much of the ensuing commentary--has focused on the spectacle of Congress being available to the highest bidder (you needed this issue to tell you that?), it missed the far more important issue: how much should it cost to use money and whom do you ending paying to do so? Because focusing on what one Senator…

Teflon's Legacy in West Virginia - and Everywhere

DuPontâs Washington Works plant near Parkersburg, West Virginia used a chemical called perfulorooctampic acid â abbreviated as PFOA or C8 â to manufacture Teflon. A group of Parkersburg-area residents sued DuPont over PFOA contamination in their drinking water, and they eventually reached a $107.6-million settlement with the company. The settlement required DuPont to clean up local water supplies, included funding for research on the health effects of PFOA, and provided for additional medical funding if that research found health effects linked to exposure. The settlement called for…

The High Cost of Assigned Reading

Inside Higher Ed has a short news story on a new report on textbook prices that finds the big publishers failing to offer low-cost books: In reviewing the catalogs of each of the publishers, the group looked for 22 frequently assigned textbooks, which had an average cost of $131.44 per book. Of the 22 textbooks, less than half had a comparable lower cost book. Two of the books were available in a low-frill format, while nine books were available as e-books. Of course, the publishers are a little upset, Bruce Hildebrand, executive director for higher education at the Association of American…

Darwin Quotes

As for myself I believe that I have acted rightly in steadily following and devoting my life to Science. I feel no remorse from having committed any great sin, but have often and often regretted that I have not done more direct good to my fellow creatures. My sole and poor excuse is much ill-health and my mental constitution, which makes it extremely difficult for me to turn from one subject or occupation to another. I can imagine with high satisfaction giving up my whole time to philanthropy, but not a portion of it; though this would have been a far better line of conduct. - Charles R.…

Orbicular Diorite

Here's some geology for a change. At Slättemossa in the province of Småland, southern Sweden, are found ice-polished outcrops of orbicular diorite ("Napoleonite"). This rock consists of granite balls covered with hornblende and other minerals and then encased in a granite matrix. When the inland ice ground the rock down, a smooth grey surface covered in darker circles resulted. Pretty striking, as seen in the photographs by Anders Möller! Anders and Inger are badass geocachers, having found nearly 1400 caches and hidden more than 200. Visit the site at N57° 22.930 E15° 36.100. It's not far…

Thursday Baby Blogging 050610

This week, we offer a shot from the forthcoming "Casual Living with SteelyKid and Appa" catalogue: If you look closely, you can see two things: 1) a small scrape by her right eye, from an accident at day care-- even SteelyKid is bound by the laws of physics, and gravity is a harsh one, and 2) her new Williams shirt, picked up when I visited there last week. I'm not actually obligated to buy new college-logo clothing whenever I visit, but it amuses me when Kate rolls her eyes at me for buying baby clothes with purple cows. Another decent view of the shirt is here: When I gave it to her after…

Spicy Pi Bacon Squared Wins!

Woot! Mrs. Pontiff's entry into the Scienceblogs pie competition is the winner! Mrs. Pontiff is on a role. This year we decided not to buy each other gifts for Valentines day. So instead of buying a gift, Mrs. Pontiff entered a photo contest from a flower company and won me some beautiful flowers. We need to plan our trip to Las Vegas immediately. Thanks to all who voted and to the dog for not jumping up and eating the pie off the table. And a special shout out to Bacon, is there anything it can't do? Lisa: I'm going to become a vegetarian Homer: Does that mean you're not going to…

Free Online Access to Journal of Biology

The latest collection of articles in Journal of Biology is now available to view free of charge on the Journal of Biology website. The Journal of Biology is the open access journal for exceptional research. Published by BioMed Central, it provides free access to research articles of the broadest importance and interest. By providing immediate, permanent, unrestricted access to these articles, Journal of Biology ensures the widest possible dissemination of the research it publishes. In the most current issue avaliable, the featured open access article written by Dr. Lukas Sommer and…

Skamby 2005 Boat Grave Report On-Line

Readers of my blogging over the past 14 months will have come across many references to, and tidbits from, the work with the archive report for 2005's Viking Period boat grave excavation at Skamby in Östergötland. Howard Williams and myself directed the excavations of the first boat inhumation in that county and the third Pre-Roman Iron Age bronze casting site identified in all of Scandinavia. I am very happy to announce that the report is now complete, on-line and available for free in English with lots of pics! Get it here, tell me what you think, ask me if anything is hard to understand.…

Why a Luddite like myself likes teaching an online course.

Regular readers of this blog know that I'm a Luddite who composes her posts on wax tablets before uploading them.* So it may seem curious that nearly every semester I teach at least one section of my Philosophy of Science course online. What would possess me to do such a thing? The ability to make active student learning inescapable. Let me first give you a bit of background on where Philosophy of Science fits into the curriculum at my university. As I described it a long time ago: [A]t this university, th[e] philosophy of science course satisfies the upper division general education…

Delicious Internet Noms

Telling Stories: February's Scientiae Carnival Hooray, hooray, for Scientiae! This month's theme brings us lots of stories about what sexism looks like in everyday life... and some less depressing entries as well. Stratigraphic layer-cake T-shirt I would buy it immediately, but fortunately for my wallet I got stuck nitpicking the weird clastic dikes. Callan Bentley has more about why it is a wholly unrealistic piece of art. Global warming skeptics claim Patriots win Superbowl "Common sense demands that a team which makes up less than 0.05% of the population of Hudson County can't possibly be…

Andrew Bolt says that radiation leaks are good for you!

After arguing that people should trust the scientists about nuclear power, Andrew Bolt is back with a post advancing the claim that anyone exposed to excess radiation from the nuclear power plants is now probably much less likely to get cancer. Said claim comes not from a scientist but from Ann Coulter, a creationist. PZ Myers, who is an actual scientist, writes: I only know about hormesis from my dabbling in teratology; a pharmacologist or toxicologist would be a far better source. But I know enough about hormesis to tell you that she's wrong. She has taken a tiny grain of truth and mangled…

When Online and Offline collide (or collude) - at ScienceOnline2010

A number of sessions at the Conference are looking at sociological aspects of the Web and science. I have already pointed, in quite a lot of detail, to the session on civility and politeness, as well as several other sessions that touch on the topics of language and trust. Let's look at several others that approach the social aspects of science online (and offline) from different angles: Casting a wider net: Promoting gender and ethnic diversity in STEM - D.N.Lee and Anne Jefferson Description: We will introduce programs that attract wider audiences to science, math, and engineering at…

When Online and Offline collide (or collude) - at ScienceOnline2010

A number of sessions at the Conference are looking at sociological aspects of the Web and science. I have already pointed, in quite a lot of detail, to the session on civility and politeness, as well as several other sessions that touch on the topics of language and trust. Let's look at several others that approach the social aspects of science online (and offline) from different angles: Casting a wider net: Promoting gender and ethnic diversity in STEM - D.N.Lee and Anne Jefferson Description: We will introduce programs that attract wider audiences to science, math, and engineering at…