Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Department of Education (ED) has launched an initiative to bolster science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education nationally.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 25, 2023

But this one suggests that gender imbalances in departments exacerbate the issue. Studies have found gender bias before , but the new paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describes a threat to both male and female faculty members’ futures in departments with lopsided numbers of men and women.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The funding of two projects – one addressing postdoctoral researchers preparing for engineering/STEM education careers and one supporting youngsters - will build upon the community partnership between UH and Houston’s Third Ward neighborhood, says university officials. Henderson, an assistant professor in the William A.

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University Business

OCTOBER 12, 2023

A National Science Foundation (NSF) report found that the Department of Defense’s Federal allocation of colleges’ science and engineering programs topped over $2.5 The USF Institute of Applied Engineering has secured more than $95 million in contract opportunities from the federal government.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 7, 2023

Department of Energy’s ( DOE ) Argonne National Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory are partnering with University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras ( UPRRP ) to expand UPRRP’s environmental sciences program and attract minority students underrepresented into the atmospheric and Earth system sciences and new energy workforce.

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University Business

JUNE 16, 2023

Department of Defense on nuclear technology. He then gained his research and teaching experience at West Point, serving in its physics and nuclear engineering department. The post President moves: Some are homegrown, others served public departments appeared first on University Business.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 6, 2024

Pradeep Sharma Pradeep Sharma has been named dean of the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston. He served as the college’s interim dean and previously as chair of the college’s mechanical engineering department. in mechanical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park.

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WCET Frontiers

MARCH 14, 2023

Department of Education is listening! Their February 15 press release ( see our post about it ) provides opportunities to inform the Department on two separate but related topic areas. They asked the Department not to throw the bundled services exception out completely, but to include more guardrails. We’re learning how to fish.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

These investments include: $188 million in competitive grants to HBCUs through the Department of Education, including grants that will support R&D capacity building. Hawkins Centers of Excellence Program (Hawkins) and the Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program (MSEIP).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 11, 2024

million gift upon Howard Community College in support of programming and scholarships in its science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) division. million gift upon Howard Community College to help support it science, technology, engineering, and mathematics division.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

But she also held a fascination with math, specifically with how math can be used to create tools and engineer solutions to problems. She’s found a way to pursue both, having earned a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and now working toward a Ph.D. Maisel calls the fifth year Ph.D.

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University Business

AUGUST 6, 2024

in Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making , melding interdisciplinary research across electrical engineering, computer science, statistics, operations research and brain and cognitive sciences. Cornell University : Cornell’s Department of Computer Science has been a pioneer in AI research since the 1990s.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Carver Professor of Engineering at the University of Iowa College of Engineering. She was invited by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to serve as a member of their joint roundtable on advancing change in undergraduate STEM education. in industrial engineering from the University of Michigan; a B.S.

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Higher Education Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Title: International Talent Programs in the Changing Global Environment Source: The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Commissioned by the U.S. Department of Defense, a recent National Academies report on international talent programs highlights the critical importance of global recruitment in advancing U.S.

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ACRLog

JANUARY 21, 2024

Throughout her tenure, she covered liaison duties that spanned across many Science and Engineering departments. I heard about this news during a monthly department meeting. Our department chair requested support and asked us to reach out if interested in taking over the STEM liaison roles.

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Higher Ed Data Stories

DECEMBER 14, 2022

So if you type "Eng" you'll get Engineering as well as English At top right, you can help students find degree-earners who are like them, by filtering on gender or ethnicity Right below that, you can filter the colleges: What type, where they're located, and whether they have a religious affiliation or not.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 4, 2023

Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate; U.S Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture; National Institute of Standards and Technology and U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. “In

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 14, 2024

Today on the Academic Minute: Tracy Hookway, assistant professor in the biomedical engineering department at Binghamton University, examines how research could help us understand our hearts better.

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HEPI

JANUARY 15, 2024

This research stems from the third phase of the ASPIRES project , based at UCL, which has tracked the career aspirations and plans of a cohort of young people in England from age 10/11 to age 21/22; with a focus on what shapes young people’s trajectories into, through and out of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2024

We graduate the very highest number of Black engineers, Black women engineers, Black agriculturists,” says Smith-Jackson. In our department we have an undergraduate research program that allows undergraduate students to work side by side with researchers in the College of Agriculture,” she says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 6, 2024

She previously served as assistant vice provost at North Carolina State University, as a program assessment consultant in the university’s Department of Chemical Engineering, and as an adjunct assistant professor in the College of Education at North Carolina State. Akinleye, who retires June 30.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

INSIGHT Into Diversity 2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners are recognized for their exemplary and innovative initiatives designed to recruit and retain underrepresented individuals in science, technology, engineering, and math. Throughout the program, students engage with faculty in STEM departments. Read about them here.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Department of Education recently found that states have underfunded land-grant HBCUs by $13 billion over 30 years. More from UB: These public colleges and MSIs are powerful economic engines The post Report: HBCUs need more funding now to keep pace with digital demands appeared first on University Business. Despite this, the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 5, 2023

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, colleges and universities have made cuts to humanities departments, and the financial exigencies of the pandemic have only made the situation worse. Yet the humanities are crucial , even—or especially— in a world that prioritizes science, technology, engineering and math disciplines.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 25, 2024

Today on the Academic Minute, part of Northern Kentucky University Week: Dirk Grupe, associate professor and chair of the department of physics, geology and engineering technology, explains why black holes continue to fascinate us.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 1, 2023

.; and assistant professor in the physics and nuclear engineering department at the U.S. Shannon holds a bachelor’s in aerospace engineering and a masters in aeronautical science from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and a master’s in health physics and a Ph.D. in nuclear and radiological engineering from Georgia Tech.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 23, 2023

During her time at MSU, Woodruff has served in a number of roles, including provost; executive vice president for academic affairs; and MSU Foundation Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology, and the Department of Biomedical Engineering.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2024

National Action Council For Minorities In Engineering The grants, totaling $2.5 Applications for funding were assessed for the quality of planned activities, the breadth of participating departments on campus, and the depth of institutional commitment to identifying and addressing systemic barriers to success in graduate education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Lomax UNCF’s new research report, Transforming Futures: The Economic Engines of HBCUs , offers empirical evidence of the profound impact HBCUs have on the success of students, communities and the nation as a whole. HBCUs have a 34% mobility rate of moving their students from the bottom 40% in household income into the top 60%.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Beaconhouse will work closely with the University of Essex’s departments to offer these programs, including Essex Business School, Essex Law School, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, and School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 20, 2024

Mary’s University School of Science, Engineering and Technology First-Generation Summer Start Scholars Program St. The summer academy has an especially strong partnership with the Arizona Department of Education, which helps fund the academy. The full list of 2024 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners can be found here.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 26, 2024

Department of Energy (DOE) announced Monday that it has approved nearly $25 million in grant funding to promote diversity and sustainability within the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) workforce.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 28, 2024

Creating optimal pre-lab videos The applicability of pre-lab videos span across a variety of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) laboratory-based disciplines including biology, chemistry, physics, anatomy, physiology, kinesiology, and engineering. Engineering Education 4 (2): 70–75. Slotkin, Scott A.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

AUGUST 4, 2023

A mechanical engineer with decades of experience in both academia and industry, she was previously the dean of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. Jayathi Murthy’s term as president of Oregon State University began in September 2022.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Bridging the gap between community colleges and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) professions, Stanford University’s student-run Community College Outreach Program (CCOP) is launching research internships and summer boot camps for aspiring students. We recognize that students can’t just be dropped into a research setting.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

In fact, this rate for English majors puts it below the unemployment rate for computer and information services majors, 2.8%, though still higher compared to a number of other majors – business, engineering, philosophy, physical science, and history. in English. “[It This is urgently needed in English and across the humanities.”

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

However, Kaplan Pathways’ latest partner, The Engineering & Design Institute London takes this concept a step further, offering just one subject — Global Design Engineering. From art colleges to medical schools, specialised higher education institutions are nothing new. But what benefit does this laser focus offer to students?

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