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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Starting with programs for middle and high school students, through supports for graduate students, the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED) at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) has provided inspiration, insight, encouragement, and community for engineering students.

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Plan B Propels Engineer to Higher Ed Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“I then thought, because I was very good in math and science, perhaps I could become an engineer and design an airplane for others to pilot,” said Lim, who joined the NJIT in July 2022 as its ninth president and a distinguished professor of mechanical engineering. That began my pathway forward and my love of engineering.”

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Is Academic Scholarship Stagnating?

Inside Higher Ed

Brown, despite having this country’s oldest applied mathematics program and the Ivy League’s oldest engineering program, isn’t in the Top 30, and Dartmouth isn’t among the Top 50 US and Canadian universities. Contributing to this ethos is an engineering, hands-on mind-set.

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Leveraging Materials Engineering to Improve Human Health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Erika Moore Title: Rhines Rising Star Larry Hench Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida Age: 31 Education: B.S., biomedical engineering, The Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D., Since 2019, Moore Wealth has gifted over $30,000 in scholarships.

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Israel: BGU launches new aid scholarships

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Israeli institution Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has launched a new aid scholarships program for new immigrants following the war in Ukraine. It is headed by Louisa Meshi of the Department of Materials Engineering at BGU, who herself immigrated from Ukraine in 1990.

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Why the Defense Department is poised to become HBCUs’ new best friend

University Business

A National Science Foundation (NSF) report found that the Department of Defense’s Federal allocation of colleges’ science and engineering programs topped over $2.5 The USF Institute of Applied Engineering has secured more than $95 million in contract opportunities from the federal government.

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10 U.S. Universities Selected to Advance Systemic Change in Doctoral STEM Education

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National Action Council For Minorities In Engineering The grants, totaling $2.5 Applications for funding were assessed for the quality of planned activities, the breadth of participating departments on campus, and the depth of institutional commitment to identifying and addressing systemic barriers to success in graduate education.

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