Social media can be a double-edged sword for LGBTQ+ youth. It is important that we understand LGBTQ+ youth’s experiences on social media to continue to facilitate safe spaces for exploring identity, finding community, and representation, while developing strategies to reduce the risk of bullying and harassment online. How social media can help LGBTQ+ youth. It can provide…

Dr. Dorothy Horstmann wore many hats, including epidemiologist, virologist, pediatrician, and educator. Her research on the spread of poliovirus through the human bloodstream helped lay the foundation for the development of the polio vaccine. Since 1988, more than an estimated 1.5 million childhood deaths and 18 million paralyzations have…

Isabel Morgan was born in 1911, in New Bedford, Massachusetts to two accomplished scientists (her father Thomas Hunt Morgan went on to win a Nobel Prize in 1933). She grew up to be a virologist and an “unsung hero” in the fight to eradicate polio. Morgan received her A.B. from…

Misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine’s safety and efficacy has a new casualty: childhood immunizations. Throughout the pandemic, we have seen myths circulating about the COVID-19 vaccine, such as that it causes sterility, was developed too quickly, or will change your DNA. Pregnancy apps, where many expecting parents go for support…

Happy Pride Month! This June, let’s honor LGBTQ+ pioneers in science, technology, engineering, and math. Sally Ride

Surveys conducted in Colorado and Pennsylvania revealed that the LGBTQ+ population has lower rates of COVID-19 vaccinations and higher rates of vaccine hesitancy than the American public at large. Most public health models rely exclusively on a binary model of sex/gender, which erases non-conforming identities and makes relevant data on…

Happy National Arab American Heritage Month! In the Middle East, women earn more science and mathematics degrees per capita than their counterparts in both the United States and Europe. UNESCO estimates up to 57% of all STEM graduates in Arab countries are women. Women in STEM in countries like Jordan…

“Imposter syndrome is experienced by millions of people around the world cross-culturally and describes difficulty internalizing one’s accomplishments and instead attributing their success to other factors. Factors such as luck, timing, ‘some helped me,’ ‘I had connections’ are common examples,” writes Valerie Young in her award-winning book The Secret Thoughts…