Achieving greater diversity through curricular change

Women and Minorities in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics: Upping the Numbers

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 245-275

  Busch Vishniac, Ilene J ^a   Jarosz, Jeffrey P ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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