Nearly 60 refugee students participated in InSPIRE, a program built from their cultures, languages and experiences to contribute to a worldwide project to measure cosmic ray activity on Earth.
Read MoreNSF has awarded $1.25 million for a program that will recruit and train postdoctoral scholars to explore marginalization in STEM education from a queer perspective, the first-of-its-kind in the world.
Read MoreAs college students decide whether or not to pursue careers in science, a sense of belonging makes a critical difference.
Read MoreThe award honors researchers who promote the development of science in disadvantaged parts of the world, who embody Abdus Salam’s conviction that science is the common heritage of humankind.
Read MoreThe project will house world-class scientists addressing the country’s most urgent issues and space for crucial undergraduate STEM courses.
Read MoreThe Williamson Fellowship pairs geoscience grad students with seventh- through 12th-grade classes.
Read More“I seek to become a new healer, bridging the traditional knowledge of my community with the knowledge pioneered by investigating glucose metabolism.”
Read MoreU researchers find that students’ certainty about belonging and their performance in a STEM course reinforce each other—for better or worse.
Read MoreGeosciences is an integrative science, combining many disciplines and touching many aspects of our lives.
Read MoreScientists and artists find high levels of engagement and interest in connecting youth in custody to the scientific method and the natural world.
Read MoreThe College of Education’s new dean brings experience in creating deeply engaging and valuable STEM educational experiences.
Read MoreThelina Smith is about to graduate from the U this May with a degree in biomedical engineering and a minor in leadership studies. Her first initiative is creating a new organization to help young people build self-confidence and refine leadership skills.
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