Diversity requires an admissions process overhaul

Analysis & Prediction of American Graduate Admissions Process

This project tries to understand American Graduate Admissions process by specifically analyzing MS Computer Science application over past 5 years. Edulix has been used as data source. After extensive data cleaning, I have tried to model admissions data based on patterns extracted from data and domain knowledge. The key to analyzing Graduate Admissions data is to analyze data in buckets rather t...

Time for an overhaul at the World Medical Association.

On 21 October 2016 Ketan Desai began his one year tenure as president of the World Medical Association. The WMA is formed and funded by 111 national medical associations and describes itself as “an organization promoting the highest possible standards of medical ethics.” The incumbent president, however, is a controversial figure who has been charged with corruption in a Delhi court. Desai has ...

XBP-1 image overhaul

The development of antibody-secreting plasma cells is crippled in the absence of the transcription factor XBP-1 (X-box binding protein). Based on the role of XBP-1 in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) unfolded protein response (UPR), it was speculated that the ER needs this protein to cope with the ramped-up protein production that accompanies plasma cell differentiation. On page 505, Tirosh and c...

Where are the males? Diversity, proportionality and Health Sciences admissions.

A Study of Admissions Software for Achieving Diversity

In the face of legal and social challenges to affirmative action, many schools and programs are withdrawing from their efforts to create or support initiatives that allow racial/ethnic consideration to be given to applicants. This shift may allay fears of bias against majority groups but it also has the potential to disenfranchise some students and programs and leave them without the programs t...