A couple of new studies suggest that women might be “self-selecting” out of STEM fields because we’re trained to fear mediocrity and failure. It makes sense—when you’re told all More »
Women Drop Out of STEM Fields Because They Feel Failure
How Can We Encourage Students Of All Backgrounds To Go Into STEM?
Last week in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, network engineers helped 50 student robotics teams compete in Aerial Assist, a game in which students program and operate robots to toss as More »
Billionaires With Big Ideas Are Privatizing American Science
Last April, President Obama assembled some of the nation’s most august scientific dignitaries in the East Room of the White House. Joking that his grades in physics made him a dubious More »
ASU event prepares high school students for STEM careers
STEM Career Accelerator Day is a national effort by STEMconnector and its STEM Innovation Task Force to encourage students to pursue STEM careers through an experiential field trip to a major company or university sites. Link>>
U.S. News Releases 2015 Best Graduate Schools Rankings
Find out which schools came out on top for law, business, medicine and more>>
Women of Congress Promote STEM Education, Careers
The women of Congress are working to change that dynamic and empower young women to see themselves in STEM — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — careers. Article>>
2015 Budget Would Boost Investments in STEM Education
President Obama’s fiscal 2015 budget blueprint released Tuesday proposes a number of changes to improving and strengthening the quality and quantity of workers in science, technology, education and mathematics (STEM) fields. Article>>
How to Level the Playing Field for Women in Science
The good news: Many more women than ever before are completing Ph.D.’s in the sciences. Back in 2000, when I was appointed the first female dean of the graduate division at More »