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President Obama Outlines Vision For Sending Humans to Mars By 2030
One of my earliest memories is sitting on my grandfather’s shoulders, waving a flag as our astronauts returned to Hawaii. This was years before we’d set foot on the moon. Decades before we’d land a...
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What “Hidden Figures” Reveals About Race, Women, and How Our Sons See Our...
20th Century Fox The rush to sign kids up for summer camps is always intense, but this past summer, few filled up as quickly as the one targeted at girls interested in STEM (science, technology,...
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Trump’s Next Move on Immigration Could Strike Closer to Home for Silicon Valley
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks after signing executive orders in the Hall of Heroes at the Department of Defense in Arlington, Virginia, U.S. on Friday, Jan. 27, 2017. Trump signed an executive...
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‘Hidden Figures’ Is the Permission We Need to Groom More Black and Hispanic...
One afternoon last summer at BEAM 6, an experimental program in downtown Manhattan for youths with a high aptitude for math, a swarm of 11- and 12-year-olds jockeyed for a better view of a poster...
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Fannie Lou Hamer Black Resource Center Opens at UC Berkeley, Minority...
Cal junior A.J. Moultrie, 21, of the UC Berkeley Black Student Union, reads a statement demanding the university fund the Fannie Lou Hamer Black Resource Center, which it approved last year. The school...
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Girls Academic Leadership Academy Get Once-In-A-Lifetime Aviation Experience
The Los Angeles Board of Public Works and HNTB Corporation recently completed two sessions of hands-on aviation experience with the Los Angeles Unified School District’s first all-girls middle school...
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Janelle Monáe To Deliver Commencement Address At HBCU Dillard University
Dillard University will hold its 81st Commencement on Saturday, May 13, at 8 a.m., on the historic Avenue of the Oaks. The University will confer more than 160 undergraduate degrees that day. “Janelle...
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New Study Finds Out Why Women, Blacks, and Hispanics Are Saying Goodbye to...
Toxic workplaces — where harassment, stereotyping and bullying occur — are driving away women and people of color, undercutting technology companies’ efforts to increase diversity and costing an...
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Small HBCU Dillard University Outranks Many Other Schools in Graduating Black...
One of the smallest historically black colleges in the U.S. boasts a huge accomplishment: pound for pound, tiny Dillard University in New Orleans graduates more physics majors — and, notably, more...
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Florida First Grade Teacher Publishes STEM Book for Children
Problem-solving is Rafael Robinson’s superpower when teaching first-graders at Douglas Jamerson Elementary. But teaching technology to children can be a daunting task. “How do you talk about...
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Randi Zuckerberg’s Pop-Up Kitchen Teaches Kids About Science and Tech
3D printed pancakes, liquid nitrogen cereal and electric Play-Doh. These are some of the activities at Sue’s Tech Kitchen, a STEM-inspired pop-up exhibit run by Randi Zuckerberg. The concept hopes to...
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Study: Enrichment Program Boosts STEM for Black Students but Leaves Latinos...
Researchers trying to figure out how to get more black and Latino students into science, technology, engineering and mathematics usually focus on those students’ college years. In a new study that...
View Article14-Year-Old Girl Raises Over $20K To Send 1,000 Girls To See ‘A Wrinkle in Time’
A teenager raised $20,000 in the hopes of helping to send hundreds of girls to the upcoming science fiction film “A Wrinkle in Time,” according to the fundraising website GoFundMe. Taylor Richardson,...
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Black Teen Girl Scientists Targeted by Hackers Because of Their Race in NASA...
India Skinner (from left), Mikayla Sharrieff and Bria Snell, 11th graders from the District of Columbia, are finalists in a NASA youth science competition. (Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post)...
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Tech Billionaire Elon Musk Dives into Education with Exclusive Grade School
JOE SKIPPER/REUTERS Elon Musk, tech billionaire of Tesla and SpaceX, is quietly tinkering with education by developing a small school in the corner of a SpaceX factory in California, according to Ars...
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What is Going On? Ten Black Washington University Students were Stopped by...
Ten black Washington University students were stopped by police in Clayton, Missouri, and wrongly accused of leaving an IHOP without paying on July 8. Several of the incoming freshman produced receipts...
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WATCH: Katherine Johnson, Woman of Color who Calculated the Flight Path for...
It took decades for Katherine Johnson to be recognized for her integral work at NASA—until Hidden Figures came along. Today, the living legend turns 100. Happy Birthday! https://t.co/AHKWkBFDEl...
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Struggling with Student Loans? Maine Promises to Help Pay them Off if You...
Maine is offering to deduct worker’s student loan contributions from state income taxes in an effort to lure more young people to the area Maine is offering to help pay off the student loans of anyone...
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Parent Warned Colorado STEM School about Violence Before School Shooting
© Thomas Cooper / Getty Images Shooting Reported At School In Highlands Ranch, Colorado Five months before the shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch that killed one student and injured eight others,...
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Survey Shows Two-Thirds of American Employees Regret Their College Degrees,...
Two-thirds of employees report regrets about their advanced degrees, as Americans question the high cost of higher education. Student loan debt has ballooned to nearly $1.6 trillion nationwide in...
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Oklahoma Baptist University’s Teacher Ed Majors Host Christmas-Themed STEM...
Fourth graders from Shawnee, Okla., work with OBU teaching students at a Christmas-themed STEM workshop hosted by the university’s education department.OBU photo Teacher education students at OBU who...
View ArticlePODCAST: Pakistani court overturns death sentence of Christian couple (UCNN...
This is the Urban Christian News podcast. Here are the top stories you need to know about today. According to Reuters, A Pakistani court on Thursday overturned the death sentence of a Christian couple...
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Tennessee State University Announces Launch of New Academic Center Dedicated...
Tennessee State University announced on Monday an academic center dedicated to competitive video game playing also known as esports. The center will focus on coding, design, management and more. TSU’s...
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Tampa’s Young Black Men Share Their Hopes, Dreams, Triumphs, and Fears in New...
Tavis Myrick, front center, is pictured along with 19 high school age students from Gentlemen’s Quest of Tampa as they display the book of poems that the group has written about what it’s like to be in...
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Purdue University Partners with U.S. Navy to Help Underrepresented Minorities...
Luciano Castillo, Purdue’s Kenninger Professor of Renewable Energy and Power Systems in Mechanical Engineering, has been working hard to increase the number of Black and Hispanic students who pursue...
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Diana Wilson Aims to Raise $1 Million to Help Black Women Pursuing a Career...
Photo Credit: Yielding Accomplished African Women There is a shortage of Black women in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), but this woman is on a mission to make a...
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Diana Wilson Hopes to Raise $1 Million to Help Black Women in STEM Careers
Diana Wilson (Instagram.com/dianaaa13) Diana Wilson wants to diminish the scarcity of Black women in STEM-related fields. She has built Yielding Accomplished African Women (Yaa W). Per MSN, the...
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Spelman College Partners with SMASH to Increase Racial and Gender...
From barrier-breaking pioneers like Alice Ball, who was one of the first Black women to earn a master’s degree in chemistry, to modern-day trailblazer Dr. Kizzmekia S. Corbett, who played an...
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Robert F. Smith Invests $15 Million in Cornell University’s College of...
Businessman and philanthropist Robert F. Smith has been a fierce advocate for equity in higher education and through his latest project, he’s putting the focus on empowering scholars at his alma...
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Sonequa Martin-Green Partners with Million Girls Moonshot and Frito-Lay...
Young female learners will be encouraged to dream big because of a newly formed partnership between Frito-Lay Variety Packs, science-fiction star Sonequa Martin-Green, and STEM Next’s Million Girls...
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