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Outreach: University of California-Irvine Chemistry
The UCI Chemistry Outreach Program was developed to address the issue of declining opportunities to learn chemistry. In the program, a graduate student or postdoctoral coordinator sends teams of...
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Outreach: Carnegie Mellon Robotics Program
Carnegie Mellon's new Fostering Innovation through Robotics Exploration (FIRE) program, a DARPA-backed effort to increase middle and high schoolers' interest in STEM and computer science, will support...
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Carnegie Mellon Offers “Hard Fun” Robotics
Thanks to a $7 million government grant, Carnegie Mellon University's Fostering Innovation through Robotics Exploration (FIRE) program is giving kids hands-on experience with robots. The researchers...
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Outreach: California STEM Careers Program
Five California State Universities have received a Learn and Serve America Higher Education grant totaling $1.5 million from The Corporation for National and Community Service. The grant is based on...
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Event: Youth in Technology Summit, Maryland, Nov. 13
The College of Southern Maryland's 3rd Annual Youth in Technology Summit, a day complete with technology demonstrations, STEM workshops, building trades, college and technical school planning, career...
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Outreach: STOMP from Tufts University
The Student Teacher Outreach Mentorship Program (STOMP) at Tufts University partners Tufts University students with K-12 teachers in the greater Boston, Mass. area to create an engineering curriculum...
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Tufts Loans Lab Equipment to Schools
Tufts university will loan state-of-the-art lab equipment to four Boston area high schools, to help support better lab instruction and to hook kids on science inquiry.
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Website: Experiments from Cornell
The Cornell Center for Materials Research offers excellent education resources for teachers, including Lending Library of Experiments, with science and engineering lesson plans and activity sheets....
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New Study on Girls in Engineering to Begin
Fewer than 18 percent of engineering undergrads are female. In an attempt to find the best ways to bring more women to the field, Arizona State University (ASU) education specialist Tirupalavanam...
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Feature: Low Cost, High Impact
In many poor, rural areas of the world, scourges like malaria, HIV/AIDS, and malnutrition are endemic. Blood tests for anemia are a quick way to diagnose them, but it can take days to get results back...
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