Tag: STEM
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Science & Tech
Science no longer intimidates her. Neither do sharks.
Summer research program breaks down barriers for undergraduates with disabilities.
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Campus & Community
Serving up science on Pi Day
Students from four Boston Public Schools spent March 14 at the Science and Engineering Complex doing hands-on engineering projects and interacting with undergraduate and graduate students studying STEM at Harvard.
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Science & Tech
Women in STEM need more than a law
Women scientists have seen gains in STEM since the addition of Title IX, but culture remains an obstacle.
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Nation & World
Growing gap in STEM supply and demand
Education and industry experts say a large subset of students are not being fully prepared for STEM careers, listing ways to close the gap.
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Campus & Community
Feeling passionate about math
Morgane Austern joined the Department of Statistics as an assistant professor in July.
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Campus & Community
Rahel Imru wants to bridge the science divide
For Rahel Imru, encouraging more Black students in STEM has been a goal since high school.
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Campus & Community
Reaching for the stars
Using robotic telescopes and other engaging astronomy activities, researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian hope to spark interest in the sciences.
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Nation & World
Harvard partners in national alliance to diversify STEM postdocs and faculty
Harvard is a partner in an effort to increase the number of postdoctoral researchers and faculty in STEM fields who come from historically underrepresented minority groups.
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Science & Tech
LabXchange meets and beats challenges of remote learning
LabXchange, a free digital-learning platform for science education, allows students, educators, scientists, and researchers to collaborate globally in an online community.
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Nation & World
Science and citizenship
Over the course of 10 weeks this summer, Harvard Medical School graduate students spent their time outside of the lab working at the Massachusetts State House as fellows in the Scientific Citizenship Initiative.
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Science & Tech
This is what a scientist looks like
Project aims to give young students real-life STEM role models
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Campus & Community
Making a place for herself
Harvard College 2020 graduate Mahlet Shiferaw talks about briefly feeling lost and then regaining her confidence as a woman of color studying astrophysics.
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Campus & Community
895 admitted under early action program
Harvard accepted 895 students to the Class of 2024 today from a pool of 6,424 who applied under the early action program.
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Science & Tech
Unhidden figures
LaNell Williams wants to encourage more women of color to pursue doctorate degrees in fields such as physics. To help make that happen, she founded the Women+ of Color Project, which last week hosted a three-day workshop that invited 20 African American, Latinx, and Native American women interested in pursuing a career in a STEM…
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Science & Tech
Building a robot, developing a nation
Harvard College sophomore Sela Kasepa looked for robotics competitions that Zambian youth could join, and found FIRST Global, an annual student robotics Olympiad.
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Campus & Community
Planting the seeds of STEM
Harvard students from the Digital Literacy Project (DLP) are providing computer science curricula to seven local middle schools this year. The DLP outreach model is unusual because lessons are presented during the school day.
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Arts & Culture
Humanities offer marketability in a competitive world
Harvard sophomore finds support for his concentration in Ancient History (Greek and Roman), which allows him to pursue his passions “while maintaining marketability in an increasingly competitive world.”
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Campus & Community
Professors recognized for exceptional teaching in science
Jene Golovchenko and John Johnson are the 2015 winners of the Fannie Cox Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching.
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Science & Tech
It was California or bust
A group of Harvard and MIT students has pedaled its way to the Pacific Ocean from Washington, D.C., with stops along the way to lead science “learning festivals” to promote STEM learning among children.
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Nation & World
Lessons learned in astronaut school
In a recent EdCast, NASA astronaut Stephanie Wilson shares her thoughts on women and STEM education, her personal journey as a student, and her time in space.
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Nation & World
Code like a girl
HGSE panelists outlined ways to counter the shortage of women pursuing careers that require a STEM education, particularly in computer science.
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Nation & World
Remember research, Faust urges
During Washington visit, Harvard President Drew Faust tells business, policy, and diplomatic leaders that they should maintain a strong research partnership between the federal government and higher educational institutions.
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Science & Tech
The ‘diversity problem’ in science
Opportunities for women and people of color to pursue careers in science have improved in recent years, but still lag behind those of white men, Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds told a crowd at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in her keynote address at the Institute Diversity Summit.