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At Fifteen, Latina High School Scientist Is Making World-wide History

Mary Mata June 14, 2013

By Joe Mayfield/Milton Torres, Popular Hispanic Meet Samantha Marquez, junior at the Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School for Government and International Studies, a magnet high school in Richmond, Virginia. With a […]

Latinos key to Obama’s health law strategy

Mary Mata June 12, 2013

Latinos are majority in Texas schools, but can the state handle them?

Mary Mata

Report highlights STEM workers who often go ignored

Mary Mata

By Emi Kolawole, Washington Post Individuals without a bachelor’s degree are playing a larger role in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce than you might think. According to a […]

Common Application statement on undoc students a hoax

Mary Mata June 10, 2013

By Jonathan Munoz, Voxxi The Common Application, Inc., more commonly referred to as the Common App, used by 488-plus colleges and universities for undergraduate admissions services, was the ‘victim’ of a […]

Why the Supreme Court needs to uphold affirmative action

Mary Mata

By Raul A. Reyes, NBCLatino The Supreme Court will soon announce a decision on an affirmative action case, Fisher v. University of Texas.  Abigail Fisher, who is white, applied to the University of […]

The science behind ‘Susto’

Mary Mata June 7, 2013

By Hope Gillete, Saludify Susto is a Latino folk illness based on the popular belief an individual can lose their soul through a frightening experience, resulting in many mental and physical […]