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And the Ig Nobel Prize — (Laughter) (Applause) — the Ig Nobel Prize honors research that first makes people laugh, and then makes them think, with the ultimate goal to make more people interested in science.
So I'll be talking about the success of my campus, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, UMBC, in educating students of all types, across the arts and humanities and the science and engineering areas.
And what makes the story especially unique is that we have learned how to help African-American students, Latino students, students from low-income backgrounds, to become some of the best in the world in science and engineering.
And the question is this: How is it that now we lead the country in producing African-Americans who go on to complete Ph.D.'s in science and engineering and M.D./Ph.D.'s?
You see, most people don't realize that it's not just minorities who don't do well in science and engineering.
If you don't know it, while 20 percent of blacks and Hispanics who begin with a major in science and engineering will actually graduate in science and engineering, only 32 percent of whites who begin with majors in those areas actually succeed and graduate in those areas, and only 42 percent of Asian-Americans.
But the other part has to do with the culture of science and engineering on our campuses.
And the number one reason, we find, quite frankly, is they did not do well in first year science courses.
In fact, we call first year science and engineering, typically around America, weed-out courses or barrier courses.
And as a result of those high expectations, we began to find students we wanted to work with to see what could we do to help them, not simply to survive in science and engineering, but to become the very best, to excel.
You all know that so often in science and engineering we tend to think cutthroat.
It means that now, not just in science and engineering, we now have programs in the arts, in the humanities, in the social sciences, in teacher education, even particularly for women in I.T.
If you don't know it, there's been a 79-percent decline in the number of women majoring in computer science just since 2000.
It's the first night of the meeting, and a confrontation is about to take place that will change science forever.
And Whewell not only coined the term scientist, as well as the words anode, cathode and ion, but spearheaded international big science with his global research on the tides.
They talked about science and the need for a new scientific revolution.
They felt science had stagnated since the days of the scientific revolution that had happened in the 17th century.
And I'm going to tell you today about four major changes to science these men made.
However, in 1809, David Ricardo muddied the waters by arguing that the science of economics should use a different, deductive method.
And for the first time, they gave women a foot in the door of science.
The British Association would later be the first of the major national science organizations in the world to admit women as full members.
[External funding for science] Up to the 19th century, natural philosophers were expected to pay for their own equipment and supplies.
They would have been deeply dismayed by today's disjunction between science and the rest of culture.
It's shocking to realize that only 28 percent of American adults have even a very basic level of science literacy, and this was tested by asking simple questions like, "Did humans and dinosaurs inhabit the Earth at the same time?" and "What proportion of the Earth is covered in water?"
Charles Darwin said, "I sometimes think that general and popular treatises are almost as important for the progress of science as original work."
Darwin knew what we seem to have forgotten, that science is not only for scientists.
But the Media Lab is an interesting place, and it's important to me because as a student, I was a computer science undergrad, and I discovered design later on in my life.
Measurement is the lifeblood of science and progress.
And that's really cool because when I was a kid, my school had two shelves of science books.
I'm here to talk to you about how we take vultures for granted in forensic science.
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