Each month this year, AAUW is teaming up with Nature Publishing Group, one of the world’s leading science publishers, to put together an online forum on women in science. The AAUW posts highlight findings from our 2010 research report, Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, now in its third printing. As [...]
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Self-Assessment Matters
Posted in AAUW research, S T E M, Sexism, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged calculus, engineering, gender difference, gender gap, math grades, mathematical achievement, mathematics, nature publishing group, physical sciences, science publishers, self-assessment, Shelley Correll on July 29, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
Why Do We Need Women in STEM Fields?
Posted in AAUW research, S T E M, Sexism, The AAUW Community, Women and Civil Rights, Women and Work, Women's Health, tagged competitiveness, creativity, design, engineering, innovation, mathematics, science, technology on February 28, 2011, | 2 Comments »
Each month this year, AAUW teams up with Nature Publishing Group, one of the world’s leading science publishers, in an online forum on women in science. The AAUW posts highlight findings from our 2010 research report, Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, now in its third printing. This is a question [...]
White House Honors Women in STEM
Posted in S T E M, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged and Engineering Mentoring, Jo Handelsman, Maja J. Mataric, Marie Curie, Marigold Linton, mathematics, Michelle Williams, Obama, Presidential award on February 2, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
In a month swirling with partisan vitriol and national tragedy, it was refreshing to find a message of hope in my inbox last week — hope for the future of American competiveness in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). President Barack Obama honored 11 professionals and four foundations with the Presidential Award for Excellence [...]
Project Profile: Arhythmetic Jukebox
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, tagged Community Action Grant, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, mathematics on October 23, 2009, | 6 Comments »
Cynthia White, a 2007–08 Community Action Grant recipient, has big ideas about math. She wants to change students’ realities about their inability to do math. “I don’t want it to be okay to say, ‘I can’t do math.’” As a math educator, Cynthia applied for an AAUW Community Action Grant and an AAUW Selected Professions [...]
Meet Marie Elena Reyes: Founder of the Frida Kahlo Institute
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Students & Educational Issues, tagged Community Action Grant, engineering, Following the Fellows, Frida Kahlo Institute, Frontera Grrls, Latina, leadership development, mathematics, science, self esteem, STEM, technology on September 11, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Marie Elena Reyes, 2001–02 Community Action Grant recipient, excelled in math throughout her early academic career but received little instruction or encouragement about science. Marie Elena was married with two children when she took her first biology class. “I was shocked by how exciting it was,” she said of the class. It was then that [...]
Learn, Grow, Lead, and Make an Impact
Posted in Educational Programs, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged Campaign College, Campus Action Projects, CAP, engineering, Leadership Programs, mathematics, National Student Advisory Council, NCCWSL, SAC, science, STEM, student government, student leaders, technology on August 26, 2009, | 1 Comment »
Does this sound like you? You’ve thought about running for student government but aren’t sure how to go about it. You have a great plan for a campus program that helps women enter academic fields like science, technology, engineering, or math, but you need funding to implement it. You have a lot of ideas about [...]
Project Profiles: Let’s Read Math
Posted in Educational Programs, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged Claire Passantino, education, Fellowships, Fellowships and Grants, fga, grants, let's read math, mathematics, project profiles, Research and Grants, STEM, West Chester-Chester County on September 12, 2008, | 2 Comments »
One of the all-time favorite books of the Let’s Read Math program is The Greedy Triangle, in which a triangle decides he is bored with life as a triangle and wants to have another side, making him a square. Not content with just being a square he subsequently turns himself into a pentagon, a hexagon, [...]
Education Olympics
Posted in Educational Programs, Students & Educational Issues, tagged achievement gap, bachelor's degree, Education Olympics, gold medal, graduation, mathematics, Olympic Games, science, standardized tests, test scores on August 27, 2008, | Leave a Comment »
All this recent talk of Olympic gold medals and international competition has stirred my patriotic streak. I hope you caught the bug as well. But cheering got me thinking — where does the United States stack up in other competitions? I stumbled across the Thomas B. Fordham Institute’s Education Olympics today and was struck by [...]
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