STEM fields

STEM students need to prioritize academic interaction

by Jacob Mattie, SFU Student In the 1990s, Dr. Mary M. Tai, a researcher working in diabetes care at New York University, published a paper highlighting a new method to obtain the area under a graph — useful for many diagnostic and treatment procedures. Dr. Tai had, in effect, redeveloped calculus.  This discovery would have revolutionized a number of fields… were it not already widely used.  This event highlights a major problem in STEM-related academia: lack of communication between disciplines leads to a redundancy in research and growth of knowledge. In Dr. Tai’s case, had calculus been better recognized in…

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