What do we intend when using the acronym STEM? It literally stands for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, but what does it mean? Arguably, attempts to provide a meaningful response to ...

According to the federal report, Charting a Course for Success: America's Strategy for STEM Education, the U.S. Department of Education is furthering efforts to increase STEM-related learning across ...

For decades, our country has invested in creating a more diverse STEM workforce by launching efforts that increase the representation of women and people of color in the field. Out-of-school time ...

In Katia Passerini’s first few years on the faculty at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, in Newark, she joined forces with another professor there and applied for a grant. For Passerini, it was ...

"[W]e're hoping to create a generation that has the knowledge and the wherewithal to come back and work for the department," said Jennifer Foley.

Editor's Note: The online version of this story has been updated to correct information about the electric lineworker program in Boyne City. We've all heard it before: STEM. But what does STEM mean, ...

Vernier Software & Technology has changed its name to Vernier Science Education to more closely reflect the company's focus on providing hands-on, socially relevant STEM education tools and resources, ...

Scarce resource: Millard McElwee, a PhD student at UC Berkeley, aims to become one of America’s relatively few Black engineering professors. Credit: Ken Andreyo Millard McElwee was 12 years old when ...

It’s not too late to redeem certain educational shortcomings that contributed to today's massive skilled-labor gap that leaves the United States ill positioned in the global competition for ...