The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities has announced a partnership with the Oracle Corporation to offer two scholarships of $2,150 each. According to HACU, scholarships are only for college students who are enrolled during the 2021 spring semester. A
For Latino and African American Marylanders, home wireline broadband and computing devices are scarce relative to Whites and Asian Americans. This is one of the main findings of the “Disconnected in Maryland: Racial and Economic Underpinnings of the Digital Divid
On this High-Tech Sunday episode, the hosts sit down with Donnell Campbell, recently appointed head of inclusion and diversity for a global IT recruitment business specializing in the banking and financial services sectors. Before taking up his current appointmen
The American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) has announced that Ann Q. Gates, vice provost at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), will receive the Alfredo de Los Santos Jr. Distinguished Leadership Award during the 2021 AAHHE virtual con
Last fall, the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) announced it had received more than $1 million in National Science Foundation grants to focus on computing and related science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines. These fields are identifi
Last fall, the University of Texas at San Antonio announced a new $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture. This second award to the BioEnergy and Water for Agriculture Research and Education
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has released a summary of the final 2021 appropriations for the National Science Foundation (NSF). According to AIP, the majority of the increase for fiscal year 2021 is directed toward programs that support groups underrepre
The next episode of High-Tech Sunday is brought to you by the BEYA STEM Conference, scheduled for February 11-13. This year's event is all digital in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The BEYA STEM community serves K-12 students, college students, corporate, gover
We hear a lot about how the Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) help families with sick children each year. But have you heard that the charitable division of the McDonald’s Corporation has awarded over $48 million in college scholarships? Scholarship win
A computer information systems senior at the University of Houston-Victoria (UHV) won the first prize, along with a University of Houston-Downtown student, in the Data Analytic Hackathon at the 2020 Great Minds in STEM (GMiS) conference. According to UHV, Prabha Sa
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been tasked with…
Brown and Caldwell, a leading environmental engineering and construction firm,…
Humboldt State University, one of four campuses within the California…
