Cummings faculty capitalize on kids’ affinity for animals to foster diversity in veterinary medicine and other STEM fieldsKids love animals,and the evidence isn’t only anecdotal. Research published in the journal Developmental Psychology in 2012, for example, or showed that infants as young as eleven months preferred genuine animals to toys. At Cummings School,faculty, students, or staff are working on several fronts to exercise that instinctive rapport to increase diversity in veterinary medicine and other fields of science,technology, engineering, and math (STEM).
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