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STEM EQUITY PIPELINE NEWS
Save the Date!
The next webinar is currently scheduled for Wednesday, June 2, 2010, at 2 p.m. ET and will feature Lise Eliot, Ph.D., author of Pink Brain, Blue Brain, How Small Differences Grow into Troublesome Gaps--and What We Can Do About It.
Dr. Eliot will present the latest science related to female brain development, including the role of genes, hormones, and environmental influences, and how social factors are proving to be far more powerful than previously realized. She will offer concrete ways that educators can help females and rein in harmful stereotypes. As a parent of two sons and one daughter, she understands the difficulty of confronting gender expectations and the value of doing so.
Dr. Eliot received her Ph.D. from Columbia University and is an associate professor of neuroscience at the Chicago Medical School of Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science.
Registration information will be posted soon on the STEM Equity Pipeline website.
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News from Ohio
The Ohio state team has shared some interesting statistics regarding the 10,695 pre-college STEM students who participated in The Ohio Academy of Science's State Science Day during the years 1996-2008.
1. More females (53.63%) than males (46.37%) participated.
2. More than 50% of these students reported that, because of their participation in local, district, and state science days, they are seriously considering a STEM career.
3. Females and males showed considerable differences in their choice of topics of fields of interest for research projects. (Refer to the State Science Day Summary for more details.)
4. Approximately 50% of State Science Day students had mentors.
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ARTICLES
Avatar's James Cameron Pushes Tech Careers to Young
(Karen Zeitvogel, Yahoo News)
"Avatar" director James Cameron urged young Americans Monday to pursue careers in science and technology to keep the United States at the forefront of technical innovation and allow him to make more blockbuster movies. Read More
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Out of the Loop in Silicon Valley
(Claire Cain Miller, New York Times)
CANDACE FLEMING'S résumé boasts a double major in industrial engineering and English from Stanford, an M.B.A. from Harvard, a management position at Hewlett-Packard and experience as president of a small software company. But when she was raising money for Crimson Hexagon, a start-up company she co-founded in 2007, she recalls one venture capitalist telling her that it didn't matter that she didn't have business cards, because all they would say was "Mom." Read More |
The Race to Become a Green-Job Hub
(Sudeep Reddy, Wall Street Journal)
Cities and states are marketing themselves as leading centers for green jobs, though few are likely to achieve this status. "Every community in the country will benefit from the green-jobs movement," said Jose Beceiro, the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce's director of clean energy. "But there are only a handful of cities that will probably emerge as a clean-technology capital." Read More
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NSF Seeks New Approach to Helping Minority Students in Science
(Paul Basken, The Chronicle of Higher Education)
The National Science Foundation is re-evaluating its approach to helping minority college students, proposing a consolidation of programs that currently assist specific racial and ethnic groups. The new direction was set out by the Obama administration in its budget recommendation for the 2011 fiscal year, which calls for the outright elimination of three NSF programs: the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program, the Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation, and the Tribal Colleges and Universities Program. Read More
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PUBLICATIONS
New Partnerships for Learning Publication
The new report from the Harvard Family Research Project entitled "Promising Practices in Integrating School and Out-of-School Time Program Supports" aims to help school and Out of School Time (OST) program leaders, decision-makers, and funders, to understand and implement effective OST-school partnerships for learning. The report describes the benefits of these partnerships and presents research, strategies and examples of the different principles of OST-school partnerships. Read Report
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