Local Girl Scouts Get Grant For Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Program

Local Girl Scouts Get Grant For Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Program
A $25,000 grant will help spark the interest of local girls in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math careers. The Girl Scout Council of the Southern Appalachians got the check this morning. The group is one of 18 councils to get an IMAGINE grant. Girl Scout volunteers will deliver a program called IMAGINE Your STEM Future free of charge to select high schools in the area. Two hundred fifty …

Diversity urged at UC Berkeley engineering school
UC Berkeley is one of the world’s great universities for engineering, scholarly rankings show. Yet its engineering department suffers when measured by a different standard: diversity. Walk into any first-year…

UT set to open new $37.5 million engineering building
KNOXVILLE – The first new engineering building on the University of Tennessee campus in nearly 50 years the $37.5 million Min H. Kao Electrical Engineering and Computer Science building will open next week when students return from winter break.

NCP engineering Recognized as a Finalist in Info Security Product Guide s 2012 Global Excellence Awards
NCP engineering today announced that it has been named a finalist in three categories of Info Security Products Guide s 2012 Global Excellence Awards. The eighth annual awards prog

CAREERS: Women Wanted
At US News & World Report ‘s STEM Education blog, the University of Virginia’s Joanne McGrath Cohoon says that technical fields need capable women , “especially at a time when unemployment is high and our economy is weak.”