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Climate Change in the American Mind publishes a new report

POSTED ON Jul 15, 2024

In early 2024, a new report titled “Climate Change in the American Mind: Beliefs & Attitudes” was published. The report is based on a survey conducted by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change

‘App Kid’ aims to change the way social media products are designed

POSTED ON Oct 04, 2023

Michael Sayman, a young entrepreneur and software expert, who was hired by Mark Zuckerberg at the age of 17, recently visited Peru for a cycle of talks on Technology for Everyone. Sayman spoke at different cultural institutions in Peru. During his t

Lora Arellano: Latina entrepreneur

POSTED ON Apr 28, 2022

You may not think that makeup is related to STEM, but the truth is makeup companies pay labs to formulate their products. A cosmetic chemist researches and develops cosmetic products such as makeup and skincare products. A Latina has taken the makeup

Mattel celebrates Afro-Caribbean salsa singer

POSTED ON Mar 22, 2022

Since the reveal of the Barbie doll in 1959, Mattel has been a household name in the toy industry. In 2015, Mattel launched Barbie Fashionista dolls which featured different skin tones, hair textures, and body shapes in an effort to make the brand more inclusive.

Son of immigrant farmworkers graduates from Harvard, becomes a doctor

POSTED ON Jan 11, 2022

As a young boy, Erick Martinez was enamored with doctors in their white coats and medical instruments in the exam room when he went to the doctor with his mom. He went on to study neurobiology at Harvard University and graduated in 2015. Martinez graduated as a

AISES launches Culturally-Relevant STEM Education in South Dakota

POSTED ON Jul 07, 2020

Webinars, phone calls, Facebook Live, TikTok, and Twitter are all part of a virtual classroom designed to engage students on the fourth-largest Indian reservation in the U.S.  According to a statement by the American Indian Science and Engineering Society, the org

Another successful Guadalajara Book Fair is over

POSTED ON Dec 30, 2019

The Guadalajara Book Fair, which is staged by Mexico's University of Guadalajara, ended Dec. 8. It was the 33rd annual event and reportedly one of the largest in the Americas and the second-largest in the world. More than 800,000 visitors are said to have attended

Issues and Trends in STEM Education

POSTED ON Nov 27, 2019

For more than 30 years, Career Communications Group’s Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology magazine has presented personality profiles of Hispanic Americans in science, technology, and business. The fall 2019 edition is available now! Download the la

DACA is back in Washington

POSTED ON Nov 13, 2019

The first Supreme Court hearing is over, but the justices have yet to determine the fate of  700,000 DACA recipients. More than seven years after the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy enabled young people, brought to the United States as childre

Hispanic enrollment increasing at HBCUs

POSTED ON Sep 20, 2019

Latinos made up 19 percent of the students at Huston-Tillotson University in 2014, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). That same year, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that almost 20 percent of the student body at Austin’s

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