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Engineering Students’ Perceptions of Stress and Mental Health
Higher education is facing a mental health crisis with increasing prevalence and severity of mental health concerns for undergraduate students. These trends indicate… Read more »
Designing emergency refugee camps to be more resilient
Emergency settlements are often set up to provide temporary shelter, food, and medical aid to those affected by the disaster until they can rebuild their lives.… Read more »
More On Society posts
The application of AI technologies in STEM education
Artificial intelligence in education (AIEd) is an emerging interdisciplinary field that applies artificial intelligence (AI)… Read more »
‘You wrote this all yourself?’ Solutions to deal with Automated Paraphrasing Tools
Many of us grew up in a world where being able to instantly and accurately translate documents at the click of a button was… Read more »
Why We Need to Pay Attention to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Student Conduct
In a recent editorial for the International Journal for Educational Integrity, Sarah Elaine Eaton wrote about New Priorities for… Read more »
Can negative emotions increase students’ plagiarism and cheating?
Academic cheating has increased during the Covid19 pandemic. This study examined whether stress and negative emotions increase… Read more »
Measuring psychological pain
Psychological pain describes the personal agony and suffering felt by an individual. A recent study suggests that the OMMP-8 could… Read more »
Immigrant optimism or immigrant pragmatism?
A recent study found that teenage immigrants are more motivated to study science than their non-migrant peers, which can be… Read more »
Using design thinking to cultivate the next generation of female STEM thinkers
The authors of a new study designed a three-day design thinking workshop, providing empirical support that a short intervention… Read more »
