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Maura Borrego

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Patrick A, Riegle-Crumb C, Borrego M
J Women Minor Sci Eng . 2024 Jan; 27(1):31-55. PMID: 38250628
Attracting women to the engineering profession has been a topic of ongoing discussion and examination. In light of perceptions of what it means to be an engineer, both male and...
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White L, Lewis M, Mastronardi M, Borrego M, Grady Rylander 3rd H, Markey M
Biomed Eng Educ . 2022 Jul; 2(2):197-202. PMID: 35789898
We describe our experiences with the first offering of a new program, BMEntored, for supporting first-year doctoral students in Biomedical Engineering (BME) during their first semester. The goal of BMEntored...
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Denton M, Borrego M, Knight D
PLoS One . 2022 Feb; 17(2):e0263185. PMID: 35108316
Discussions about science and engineering postdoctoral researchers focus almost exclusively on academic postdocs and their chances of eventually securing tenure-track faculty positions. Further, biological sciences dominate policy research and published...
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Patrick A, Borrego M, Riegle-Crumb C
Ann Biomed Eng . 2020 Nov; 49(5):1275-1287. PMID: 33230618
This study investigates career intentions and students' engineering attitudes in BME, with a focus on gender differences. Data from n = 716 undergraduate biomedical engineering students at a large public...
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Kinoshita T, Knight D, Borrego M, Wall Bortz W
PLoS One . 2020 Apr; 15(4):e0231567. PMID: 32348344
This study examines differences across demographic subgroups in the phenomenon of recent doctoral recipients seeking work but having no job offers for employment. Gender and race/ethnicity have been identified as...
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Tharayil S, Borrego M, Prince M, Nguyen K, Shekhar P, Finelli C, et al.
Int J STEM Educ . 2019 Jan; 5(1):7. PMID: 30631697
Background: Research has shown that active learning promotes student learning and increases retention rates of STEM undergraduates. Yet, instructors are reluctant to change their teaching approaches for several reasons, including...