Who would have thunk that Walmart offers better pay to software engineers than Microsoft, Expedia and Amazon.com. But that’s one of the findings in a new Glassdoor survey which looks at the top 25 highest paying companies for software engineers. Article>>
Boy Wonder: Jack Andraka
October 15th, 2013 by Brad Graham
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most aggressive and deadly cancers, in part because often by the time it’s diagnosed the disease has spread to other parts of the body. So when news broke last year
3 Americans Win Joint Nobel Prize in Medicine
October 8th, 2013 by Brad Graham
Three Americans won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for discovering the machinery that regulates how cells transport major molecules in a cargo system that delivers them to the right place at the right time. Article>>
Posted in: Medicine, Nobel Prize, Physiology, STEM
Why Are There Still So Few Women in Science?
October 4th, 2013 by Brad Graham
Last summer, researchers at Yale published a study proving that physicists, chemists and biologists are likely to view a young male scientist more favorably than a woman with the same qualifications. Presented
High School Hacking Lessons To Create “Google-Ready” Students
October 3rd, 2013 by Brad Graham
Throw a rock in the tech world and you’ll find a “learn-to-code” advocate. But among actual computer science educators, Mike Zamansky at the elite Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, is one of the
Posted in: Google, Hacking, High School, Software, STEM
Re-engineering Education to Employment With Internships
October 1st, 2013 by Brad Graham
The topic of unemployment is often discussed and debated, but what about youth unemployment? According to the World Economic Forum, there are 1.2 billion youth in the world aged 15 to 24. They
Posted in: Engineering, Internships, STEM, Unemployment
A Nudge to Poorer Students to Aim High on Colleges
September 28th, 2013 by Brad Graham
The group that administers the SAT has begun a nationwide outreach program to try to persuade more low-income high school seniors who scored high on standardized tests to apply to select colleges. Link>>
Posted in: Education, Low-Income, SAT, STEM
NASA Collaborates with Boys and Girls Clubs of America to Inspire the Next Generation of Explorers
September 19th, 2013 by Brad Graham
NASA signed a Space Act Agreement Wednesday with the Boys and Girls Club of America (BGCA) to infuse the agency’s science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)
Posted in: Boys and Grils Club, NASA, STEM
