Alphabetical order effects in school admissions

Invited Talks ( Alphabetical order )

Invited Talks (Alphabetical order) Gerardo Adesso (University of Nottingham, UK) Relativistic Quantum Metrology

Executive Summary and Main Report Contributors (in Alphabetical Order)

Poster and Exhibit Abstracts ( In alphabetical order by author )

Hearing loss, vestibular disorders and damaged eyesight can be the result of axonal degeneration (Int Jour Ped Otrlaryn, 61:1-15; Inst Opthalm, 7:109-125). Improper functioning of the myelin sheath may be responsible for this degeneration, due to its role in conducting chemical and electrical neural signaling. Investigation of myelin degeneration requires understanding of normal myelinogenesis ...

Implicit Racial Bias in Medical School Admissions.

PROBLEM Implicit white race preference has been associated with discrimination in the education, criminal justice, and health care systems and could impede the entry of African Americans into the medical profession, where they and other minorities remain underrepresented. Little is known about implicit racial bias in medical school admissions committees. APPROACH To measure implicit racial bi...

Equity for "DREAMers" in Medical School Admissions.

Where We Are and How We Got Here In the autumn of 2012, the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine became the first medical school in the nation to amend its admissions policy to welcome applications from “DREAMers”—undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children, i.e., prior to the age of 16, and have been raised and educated in the United States for mor...