The range of grades just above a C appears to encourage women and underrepresented minorities to stick with STEM-track courses at a higher rate than their white and Asian male peers, researchers conclude.

The 2019 S-STEM Symposium, co-hosted by NSF and AAAS, brought together more than 600 members of the STEM higher education community.

This past fall, the U.S. Census Bureau became the newest agency to host a AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow (STPF) when it took on a data science researcher.