STEM Archives

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Epigenetics Could Be the Key to Progress on Lou Gehrig’s Disease

April 25, 2019

On July 4, 1939, one of the greatest baseball players of all time, Lou Gehrig, stood before a crowd at Yankee Stadium and uttered this famous line: “Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the e Read more ›

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SNAPSHOT: EEG and Speech Intelligibility

April 16, 2019

| The City College of New York, The Graduate Center

Scientists can measure when a person wearing a hearing aid is listening or not, and wondered how easy or hard it is for that same person to understand another person’s speech. Read more ›

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Using Math for a Green New Deal

April 10, 2019

| Hostos Community College

A mathematician has come up with an algorithm for his version of a Green New Deal. Read more ›

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Making Fracking More Efficient

April 9, 2019

| The City College of New York

In a new paper, a team of researchers propose ways to make the process of fracking more efficient and environmentally sound. Read more ›

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Using Statistical Modeling to Control Staph Outbreaks

April 8, 2019

| The City College of New York, The Graduate Center

MRSA is a type of staph infection that’s resistant to antibiotics. Now, researchers have shown that computer modeling may help test ways to control outbreaks at hospitals. Read more ›

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High Testosterone Levels Linked to Heart Problems

April 3, 2019

| Graduate School of Public Health

A new study links high testosterone levels to cardiovascular conditions in men. Read more ›

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From Neighborhoods to Online: How Music Sampling Changed

April 1, 2019

| Queens College, The Graduate Center

A new paper examines how artists find and exchange music samples. Where neighborhoods once played a critical role, digital communities are now the new hotspot. Read more ›

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Do You Kayak or Wade in the Hudson? Study Reveals Sediment Pollution

March 29, 2019

| Queens College, The Graduate Center

The Hudson River is cleaner than it has been in decades, but the shoreline is another matter. Read more ›

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Understanding Obesity and Diabetes in Foreign-Born Blacks

March 26, 2019

| Brooklyn College, Graduate School of Public Health, Hunter College

Calculating the health of foreign-born blacks can be difficult because they’re often classified alongside U.S.-born blacks, but that distinction remains necessary considering their different health profiles. Read more ›