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VIDEO: 16-year-old Girl Uses Near-Space Probe to Apply to MIT
It’s Getting Competitive Out There This college application will make you happy. Erin King, 16, of Columbus, Georgia, launched a near-space probe, with camera and GPS, as her application for early admission to MIT’s Class of 2016. The flight reached over 96,000 feet and took more than two hours. MIT’16 EA Tube goes to Near […]
Article: “Cornell Recruits Female Professors in STEM”
The ADVANCE Program, a MentorNet’s Partner, Helps Bring 70 New Female Professors. As Cornell is preparing to replace retiring faculty through a renewal initiative, it will continue to recruit women in STEM fields through their ADVANCE program. ADVANCE is a $3.3 million effort, funded by the National Science Foundation that has brought 70 new female […]
Article: “Obama Proposes $8 Billion for Career Programs at Community Colleges”
Enhancement of Worker Training The Obama administration is proposing a $8 billion, three-year plan for career programs at community colleges to be administered by the Education and Labor departments. The funds will be designated to “establish training courses for skilled careers, develop partnerships between the schools and employers, and help state and local governments attract […]
Article: “Proportion of US STEM Workforce Falls and Federal Funding May Not Be Helping”
Redundancy and Lack of Metrics in Many Programs Found Two recent announcements suggest that federal funding for programs to increase the number of graduates in STEM aren’t working as well as they should. According to a 2012 U.S. General Accounting Office report, various federal agencies spend $3 billion on 209 programs to feed the STEM […]
Article: “Gender equity: Doing the math”
In an article published in the Vancouver Sun, January 29th, titled “Gender Equity: Doing the Math”, a study indicates that boys do not lose out when girls start to do better in math. In fact, when girls do better in society, both sexes benefit. The study examined more than half a million fourth and eighth […]
Report: “Survival Analysis of Faculty Retention in Science and Engineering by Gender”
Abstract: “Individual assistant professors (a total of 2966 faculty) hired in science and engineering since 1990 at 14 United States universities were tracked from time of hire to time of departure by using publicly available catalogs and bulletins. Results of survival analysis showed that the chance that any given faculty member will be retained over […]
Financial Support for CCWESTT Participation – Applications Due Feb. 24
We are pleased to announce that WWEST will be able to provide limited funding to our WWEST Partners to help cover their costs to attend the CCWESTT Conference! Up to $500 support for up to 3 of our WWEST Partners will be given. Attendees must have secured funding matching the contribution from WWEST. Priority will […]
Article: “America’s Next Top Engineer: She Needs Your Role Models”
“America’s Next Top Engineer: She Needs Your Role Models”, is an article written by Dr. Linda Kekelis, Executive Director at Techbridge. Techbridge is a nonprofit organization based in Oakland, California, whose mission is to promote girls’ interest and skills in science, technology, and engineering. Techbridge does this through the programs they run and by developing […]
SEPT. 12-14 – WIRES Summit, in Athens, Greece
Are you interested in: Meeting today’s information technology needs and plan for the future? Providing sustainable energy for everyone? Improving and making urban infrastructure resilient and sustainable? “WIRES is the international summit for women who are interested in pursuing international collaborative researching opportunities. The main objective of this summit is to enable meaningful and […]
Article: MentorNet’s Home Congressman Honda Creates e-STEM Bill
In an op-ed on the US News and World Report “STEM Education” blog, Congressman Michael Honda (R-CA) and Peter Cleveland of the Intel Corporation write about the importance of education in having a successful life, adding, “As our nation’s science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce heads toward retirement, too few students are equipped to […]
