7 STEM Halloween Costumes You Probably Have in Your Closet
If you still haven’t settled on your costume for tonight, check out these low-lift ideas that will definitely be a hit.
Posts Tagged: STEM
A Woman’s Place is in the Tech Industry
Need a tech lady role model to look up to? Megan Smith, U.S. CTO may be just who you are looking for. Check out her approach to fostering innovation and STEM involvement across the globe.
Making the Most of a Solo Career
What do you do when you’re the only person in a role? Get creative.
STEM vs Humanities: Why Both are Needed for Analytics
A national conversation is continuing to brew over whether Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) skills should be emphasized in schools and universities over humanities and liberal arts education. Several recent studies have found that the perceived higher marketplace value of STEM skills has led to a drop in the percentage of students pursuing humanitiesRead… Read more »
How Ann Dunkin Encourages Girls in STEM through Public Service
It’s still rare to see a woman running a government agency (only 34 percent of the SES is female), and it’s even rarer for that woman to be holding a technology position. Therefore, it was really a thrill to speak with Ann Dunkin, who currently serves as chief information officer at the US Environmental ProtectionRead… Read more »
Women in STEM: A Long Way to Go and a Short Time to Get There
Women of color who are trying to break into male dominated fields in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) face both racial and gender bias. Katherine Phillips, the Paul Calello Professor of Leadership and Ethics and Senior Vice Dean at Columbia University’s Business School has another term for this condition after surveying and interviewing 617Read… Read more »
Women in Technology: Promoting a Broader Perspective
For many, the notion of women in technology is focused on computer science and the tech industry. Should the definition be so narrow? Do we really want to send the message to girls and young women that aspiring to be coders and tech entrepreneurs is the best (or only) way they can make a professional… Read more »
What Happens When Our Senior Scientists, Engineers, and Doctors Retire?
More than two-thirds of NASA employees are scientists and engineers, and NASA has one of the oldest workforces in the federal government – many of whom are nearing retirement. So what’s the plan for recruiting new scientific, engineering, and medical leadership talent? Dr. Gina Scott Ligon, along with her University of Nebraska at Omaha colleaguesRead… Read more »
2014 STEM
Andaz San Diego 600 F Street, San Diego, California, USA, 92101 Tel: +1 619 849 1234 July 29-30 Andaz Hotel- San Diego, CA According to a recent survey of talent recruiters for Fortune 1000 companies conducted by Bayer Corporation, science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workers are still in short supply and high demand withRead… Read more »
Purdue Professors Among Presidential Science, Engineering Award Recipients
The White House has chosen two researchers from Purdue University as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, an award for early-career independent research on science and engineering. Jeffrey Karpicke of the College of Health and Human Sciences and Tamara Moore of the College of Engineering were selected for their workRead… Read more »