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NSF Grants Fund STEM Education Equity in Houston

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The University of Houston has received two new grants designed to address barriers that prevent low-income and underrepresented students from pursuing STEM education. Because many postdocs transition into positions that involve teaching, communication and mentoring, effective education in these areas should be the standard.”

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From Small-Town Roots to National Honor: SC Native Receives State's Highest Award

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Moore is also the assistant director of the Directorate for STEM Education at the National Science Foundation. billion and nearly 200 employees, he helps to leads the largest federal entity dedicated to funding educational research. With a budget of approximately $1.8

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

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The mission of Excelencia in Education, founded in 2004 by Dr. Deborah A. Brown, is to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. Santiago and Sarita E. Neufeldt, president of CSUSM.

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Advancing Black Males in STEM is My Passion — Here’s How I Got There

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Burt Derived from a decade of my research on the subject, the Black Males in Engineering (BME) project aims to address and redress the numbers of Black boys and males interested in and persisting through STEM educational pathways. Finally, Video 5 (“Of Triumph and Perseverance”) offers an illustration of a Black male success story.

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Making Math More Equitable

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Ford, a Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University, says she is impressed by Leyva’s scholarly productivity, noting that his research addresses important gaps in STEM educational research and literature. Leyva teaches and mentors undergraduate and graduate students.

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The Genesis of a Research Agenda on Black Males in Engineering

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Burt From that gathering, and others that followed with the same group, I began to wonder why my peers in STEM gathered so much. Then, as I observed them together celebrating and embracing each other, I wondered if their gatherings were an informal way of retaining one another.

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Women in STEM: Perception Versus Reality

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of the STEM workforce in the U.K. Across Europe, women account for more than half of the continent’s population but just 17% of its information and communications technology professionals. Ami Moyal It is crucial to understand that gender inequity in STEM is driven more by perception than by reality. Women make up only 29.4%

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