The 14th national conference of the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education was held in Costa Mesa, California Feb. 28 - March 2 in Costa Mesa, California. The 2019 Cigarroa Lecture was given by Dr. Olivia Graeve, a professor in the Department of M
For International Women's Day 2019, we post an illustration of Astronaut Ellen Ochoa, the first Hispanic woman to go to space. The sketch, which was done by Carly Wilkins of the U.S. Department of Energy was first released during Women’s History Month 2016 when
Maryland's Deputy Secretary of State Luis E. Borunda, the first Hispanic to serve in that role, provided remarks on behalf of the Governor at an event celebrating graduates in a new workforce program. "It was amazing to watch this American quilt of emerging leaders
Cecilia Rodriguez Aragon is the director of the Human-Centered Data Science Lab at the University of Washington (UW). She won the Distinguished Alumni Award in Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2013, and the student-nominated Faculty Innovator in Teaching Award
The Home Depot announced Tuesday that it is hiring 80,000 associates for the spring season with a new hiring app built by the company's in-house engineers. Last spring, the home improvement retailer launched Candidate Self Service, another homegrown app that allo
Latinas in STEM is partnering with the Alexander D. Sullivan School and Jersey City Public Schools to host the 4th Annual Latinas in STEM 101 Conference in Jersey City, New Jersey. Keynote talks will be delivered by Latinas in science. technology, engineering, and
Sonoma State University's School of Science and Technology recently hosted the "The Gender Gap in STEM" panel with local women leaders in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Dr. Carmen Works, a professor of chemistry, Omayra Ortega, Ph.D., an assis
A lot has happened since Aurora University announced a $39, 600 gift from the Schmidgall Family Foundation, to provide scholarships so that financially vulnerable high school students can attend the university’s new Michael J. Birck Innovation Engineering Program
Esther Betancourt, a 2016 Women of Color in STEM Conference Managerial Leadership Award winner and holder of five engineering patents, was part of the team that reopened the Rapid Systems Prototyping Laboratory (RASP) recently at the University of Puerto Rico, Maya
A recent study has found that California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB) is one of the top universities in the nation for upward mobility of its students. The research is based on millions of anonymous tax filings and tuition records from the federal governmen
IBM announced this week that its apprenticeship program has earned…
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