Insights and strategies for improving equity in graduate school admissions

MA Cadena, C Amaya, D Duan, CA Rico… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Applying to graduate school can be particularly challenging for students from historically
minoritized backgrounds due to a hidden curriculum in the graduate admissions process. To …

Factors that predict life sciences student persistence in undergraduate research experiences

KM Cooper, LE Gin, B Akeeh, CE Clark, JS Hunter… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Undergraduate research experiences (UREs) have the potential to benefit undergraduates
and longer UREs have been shown to lead to greater benefits for students. However, no …

Research apprenticeship training promotes faculty-student psychological similarity and high-quality mentoring: A longitudinal quasi-experiment

PR Hernandez, CF Ferguson, R Pedersen… - Mentoring & Tutoring …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
High-quality mentoring relationships help college students to achieve their academic
potential and career goals. However, less is known about factors that shape the antecedents …

“Where I feel the most connected:” Community of Inquiry supporting sense of belonging in a HyFlex engineering course

JB Buckley, AK Thompson, TR Tretter… - The Internet and Higher …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this study, we use focus groups, open-ended survey questions, and course observational
data to examine aspects of one HyFlex engineering fundamentals course, with sections …

Challenges to successful research careers in neurology: how gender differences may play a role

MT Minen, EF Law, A Harriott, EK Seng, J Hranilovich… - Neurology, 2020 - AAN Enterprises
There has been a substantial rise in the number of women pursuing careers in neurology.
However, research has shown that women in neurology have high rates of burnout with …

A tool for designing and studying student-centered undergraduate field experiences: The UFERN model

K O'Connell, KL Hoke, M Giamellaro, AR Berkowitz… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Undergraduate field experiences (UFEs), where students learn and sometimes live together
in nature, are critical for the field-based science disciplines. The Undergraduate Field …

Belonging as a gateway for learning: First‐year engineering students' characterizations of factors that promote and detract from sense of belonging in a pandemic

JB Buckley, BS Robinson, TR Tretter… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background A predictor of student success, sense of belonging (SB) is often inhibited for
minoritized students in engineering environments and difficult to foster in online courses. A …

Underrepresentation of Hispanic women in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine

J Gencel‐Augusto, NJ Minaya… - CA: A Cancer …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Despite ongoing efforts to increase the number of women in science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and in medicine, Hispanic women remain severely …

Peer-mentorship and first-year inclusion: building belonging in higher education

GJ van der Velden, JAL Meeuwsen, CM Fox… - BMC Medical …, 2023 - Springer
Background An inclusive academic environment is pivotal to ensure student well-being and
a strong sense of belonging and authenticity. Specific attention for an inclusive learning …

Understanding barriers to participation within undergraduate STEM laboratories: towards development of an inclusive curriculum

L Batty, K Reilly - Journal of Biological Education, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The increase in student diversity, legislative changes and shift towards the social model of
disability has led to greater emphasis on inclusive curricula within Higher Education (HE) …