Nicole Else-Quest, assistant professor of psychology joins WYPR’s “Midday with Dan Rodricks” to address gender gap in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) industry, and to discuss findings from her latest study on math and science attitudes and achievement as it relates to gender and ethnicity, published in the journal Psychology of Women Quarterly.

“Our first goal was to conduct a study that examined how boys and girls achieved in math and science and feel about math and science,” said Dr. Else-Quest. “And what we found was girls and boys perform equally in math and science, for the most part. There’s no evidence that the girls can’t do math and science.”

The full segment can be heard here.

Maqetta is an open source initiative of the Dojo Foundation that provides WYSIWYG web development in the cloud or locally. Moreover, it supports drag & drop assembly of live UI mockups, including HTML5 components. In today's article, Rob Gravelle gives Maqetta a once-over to test its design capabilities.

On June 6, Dr. Kimberly Moffitt, Assistant Professor of American Studies, joined Dr. Ivory Toldson, Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology at Howard University and Jeffrey Menzise of the Urban Institute at Morgan State University as guest panelists on the “Marc Steiner Show” to discuss the results of a recent poll that asked African Americans the level of satisfaction with their lives.

Of the more than 1,000 African Americans participants, an overwhelming majority indicated that they were satisfied with their lives. However, Dr. Moffitt is quick to point out the danger in some of the generalizations made from the survey results. “Clearly, for single women who live in the south and in urban areas, life can be very good,” said Dr. Moffitt. “[But] I think if we explore these issues at a deeper level that some of the generalizations can be quite dangerous.”

The survey, conducted by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Harvard School of Public Health, is part of a new NPR series, “The View from Black America,” that addresses the many facets of life in America from the perspective of African American men and women.

Jasmine.Async is an add-on library for Jasmine that provides additional functionality to do asynchronous testing. Modeled after Mocha's async test support, it brings the done() function to the Jasmine unit testing environment. Rob Gravelle shows how the Jasmine.Async library makes your asynchronous process tests easier to write.

Towson University’s new Tiger Arena opens tonight. The arena cost $70 million, funded through $20 million in Towson’s reserve funds, combined with bonds paid back through a student fee set aside for construction projects. UMBC economics professor Dennis Coates told the Baltimore Sun that although new arenas generally succeed in increasing the owner’s ability to generate revenue, whether that benefits those who pay for construction is less clear. “It creates a nice buzz,” said Coates, “but otherwise, the impact is spread out.”

Coates also commented in a recent Wall Street Journal article on how Brooklyn’s Barclays Center impacts local retailers, particularly food vendors.