Nilanjana Dasgupta, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (IMAGE)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Nilanjana Dasgupta, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

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Dasgupta and Dennehy found that at the end of the first college year, a remarkable 100 percent of women students mentored by advanced female peers were still in engineering majors, a spectacular number, Dasgupta says, because that is typically the time of greatest attrition from STEM majors.

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