The Good and Bad Jobs for Grad Students in 2015
It’s that time of year when college graduates ponder their future plans, and those heading for more higher learning put down deposits for grad school tuition. In a knowledge economy, the pay gap is...
View ArticleRandi 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...
View ArticleStudy: 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,...
View ArticleBlack 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)...
View ArticleTech 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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleWATCH: 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...
View ArticleStruggling 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...
View ArticleParent 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,...
View ArticleSurvey 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...
View ArticleOklahoma 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...
View ArticleTennessee 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...
View ArticleTampa’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...
View ArticlePurdue 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...
View ArticleDiana 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...
View ArticleDiana 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...
View ArticleSpelman 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...
View ArticleRobert 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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