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Insight Into Diversity Magazine Announces 2024 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

Today, Insight Into Diversity magazine, the largest and oldest diversity and inclusion publication in higher education, announced the 83 recipients of its 2024 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award. The 2024 recipients will be featured in the September 2024 issue of Insight Into Diversity magazine.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Starting with programs for middle and high school students, through supports for graduate students, the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED) at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) has provided inspiration, insight, encouragement, and community for engineering students.

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Plan B Propels Engineer to Higher Ed Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Lim is now leading the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) into the future. That began my pathway forward and my love of engineering.” in mechanical engineering from Michigan Technological University, his master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla and his Ph.D.

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UIUC Leads Effort to Make Speech Recognition Technology More Inclusive

Insight Into Diversity

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are trained using large datasets from public audiobook websites, resulting in technology that excels at transcribing voices similar to professional narrators but struggles with challenges like second-language accents, underrepresented dialects, and speech impacted by disabilities.

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Colleges award tenure

Inside Higher Ed

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Guy Bresler, electrical engineering and computer science. Otto Cordero, civil and environmental engineering. Michael Carbin, electrical engineering and computer science. Ming Guo, mechanical engineering. Stefanie Jegelka, electrical engineering and computer science.

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These 25 schools are tops for producing the nation’s leaders

University Business

However, colleges and universities offering premium programs in specific trades like engineering and agriculture helped diversify the list. faculty, according to one 2022 study published in Nature. But above all, the institutions most likely to make this list have at least one notable postgraduate program or are large research universities.

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What Is Zero-Trust Security? Key Principles of the Model

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

Cybersecurity remains a top priority for higher ed IT leaders, according to InsideHigherEd's "2023 Survey of Campus Chief Technology/Information Officers," report, with 92 percent of respondents noting that they have updated their software to improve their cybersecurity practices within the last 12 months.

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