When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018. #WomenInScience#February11 https://t.co/B7TOYFXLhW
It's #WomenInScienceDay! 👩🔬👷🏾♀️👩🏻⚕️👩🏿🔬👩🏿🏫
NSF celebrates the strides women are making in STEM and supports the next generation of female scientists, engineers, technicians, educators and entrepreneurs as they pursue their STEM dreams.
Your dreams are NSF's dreams, too.
We are pleased to announce 104 colleges and universities are receiving grants (totaling more than $60 million over six years) through our #InclusiveExcellence 3 (IE3) initiative.
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SCATE Center at FDTC has receives a $4,796,313, five-year National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education (NSF ATE) grant award to expand its Mentor-Connect program.
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The modern era of higher education requires collaboration. Florence-Darlington Technical College & Coker University landed a $1.4 million grant to support students. @HarderNatalie @FloDar_Tech@sc_ate @SCTechSystem
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Thinking about majoring in biology? Farrah Brown, '20, shares why she chose to major in biology at Coker University: https://t.co/LTbQKROWVy. "I have had lots of research opportunities at Coker," she says. #CokerPride
Coker is currently accepting applications for its class of 2024 STEM Scholars in Biology (SSB), a program for high-achieving students interested in pursuing STEM careers and are in need of financial assistance to attend college. For more information: https://t.co/6VjZM3i8mb.
Tiffany Taylor (‘20), a chemistry major, participated in an REU this summer at UNC Chapel Hill where she helped develop a hydrofunctionalization method that could benefit the pharmaceutical industry. Learn more at https://t.co/LUWDPRfHSF. #CokerPride
"I guess I never really dreamed of going to college." —College students whose tuitions were paid by Bill and Melinda Gates recall finding out they had been selected as Gates Scholars. https://t.co/wPELoPMMn9
One of the biggest takeaways from @CharlesCMann's newest book: before tractors, a typical small farmer devoted ~40% of his land to growing food for work animals. If it wasn't for the Model F tractor, we may have never had the Green Revolution. https://t.co/u3IFcma5uA
This Thursday, check out @ucbclear "PubScience: Bacteria Run this Planet, But We Can Help" w/ Dr. Sarah Richardson at Little Hill Lounge in El Cerrito https://t.co/1Jgqowg5QX #STEM
Incidentally, my daughter turned me on to Rejected Princesses: stories of badassery by historical women from around the world.
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