by NIAAH Editors | Aug 1, 2021 | NIAAH Scholars
Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis on April 3, 1968, giving the last speech of his life. He addressed social inequalities, discussing the low pay of garbage workers in that city. Charles Kelly/AP File Photo Shervin Assari, University of Michigan The college admissions...
by NIAAH Editors | Aug 1, 2021 | NIAAH Scholars, Research
Assistant professor of chemistry Sidney Wilkerson-Hill, left, in a chemistry lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with Bolatito Babatunde, a student in the Chancellor’s Science Scholars program at UNC. Lars Sahl / UNC Chemistry, CC BY Mariano R....
by NIAAH Editors | Aug 1, 2021 | NIAAH Scholars
Hip-hop officially became the most popular music genre in 2018 and continued its reign in 2019, according to Nielsen Music. Lev Radin/Shutterstock.com Nolan Jones, Mills College When Cassie Crim, a high school math teacher in Joliet, Illinois, introduced herself to...
by NIAAH Editors | Aug 1, 2021 | NIAAH Scholars
Historically, many American universities helped lay the foundation for eugenics, a pseudoscience used to justify racism. Helioscribe/www.shutterstock.com Juan Miró, University of Texas at Austin and Edmund T Gordon, University of Texas at Austin The Trump...
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Lauren Rhue, Wake Forest University Facial recognition technology has progressed to point where it now interprets emotions in facial expressions. This type of analysis is increasingly used in daily life. For example, companies can use facial recognition software to...
by NIAAH Editors | Aug 1, 2021 | NIAAH Scholars
Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine’s new school will focus on teaching students about science and the music industry. David Livingston/Getty Images Edmund Adjapong, Seton Hall University; Nolan Jones, Mills College, and Shaun M. Dougherty, Vanderbilt University Music producers...
