Mix it up

• Autores: Joshua Sokol
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3055, 2016, págs. 24-25
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Sokol talks about a legal challenge to "affirmative action" at the University of Texas, a widely used practice in which, to increase diversity, ethnic origin is used as a factor in admissions. Students from minority groups, who are still in the classroom despite whatever pernicious racism they've faced, already show grit. Astronomer Sarah Tuttle, of the University of Washington in Seattle, says paradigm shifts in physics come from the kind of creativity engendered by diversity