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Researcher Looks for Ways to Boost Women’s Academic Careers
PULLMAN, Wash.—Despite studying academic careers for a decade, Professor Kelly Ward can’t offer up a recipe for increasing the number of women on faculty. But she knows what colleges shouldn’t do: Hire more women and expect that to be enough.
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Facebook Survey Accurately Predicts “American Idol” Winners - WSU Experts Explain Why
PULLMAN, Wash. – A new trend in surveys has a Facebook site accurately predicting the American Idol top and bottom three winners every week. Now, researchers at Washington State University Social and Economic Sciences Research Center, the largest university-based survey research center in the Pacific Northwest, explain how this could happen.
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WSU Researcher Links State of US Welfare to Growth of Military-Industrial Complex
PULLMAN, Wash. – A leading Washington State University sociologist argues in a recently published study that the United States’ failure to achieve health care and social welfare reforms on a par with the world’s other most affluent democracies was a result of the growth of the U.S. military-industrial complex during World War II.
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New course prepares engineers to be better educators
The first day of teaching for many professors is like jumping into the deep end of the pool - without swimming lessons. University professors are not required to, and often do not, have training in education.
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