Applications are being accepted for the 2020-21 class of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science & Technology Policy Fellows now through November 1st. The AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship is a paid, yearlong opportunity for professional…
Today, in celebration of National Engineers Week, NBC News Learn launched “Discovering You,” an original video series celebrating the careers of engineers who are inspiring the next generation. NBC News Learn, the education brand of NBC News, produced the series…
From 2006 to 2016, degree completion in the “hard sciences” increased in prevalence for both genders. Excluding social sciences and psychology, the percentage of bachelor’s degrees accounted for by S&E disciplines increased five percentage points for men, and two percentage…
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) administered the first-ever nationally representative assessment of technology and engineering literacy in 2014. Eighth-grade students were presented real-world scenarios involving technology and engineering challenges. Students were asked to respond to questions aimed at…
Alice Sheppard, a celebrated disabilities dancer and choreographer recently demonstrated the connection between physics and engineering, and dance as she performed on a prototype ramp designed and built by students at Olin College of Engineering. The idea for the ramp…
