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Fostering love and knowledge of agriculture and the environment

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Whether they’re interested in biology, geometry, engineering, chemistry, microbiology or in digging holes and looking for worms, starting early shows how the child’s interest ties into food, health and sustainability. Students learn how to add value to products, to process and preserve food, and to manage their finances.”

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What You Need to Know About STEM Careers

Career in STEM

There are a few ways to finance a college education , such as scholarships and student loans. Be sure to thoroughly research your options before applying for your student loan. STEM majors are broad and diverse; here’s just a few: Computer science. Mechanical engineering. Software engineering. Health sciences. Statistician.

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Controlling and engineering systems for the benefit of all

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Questions and research methods. Field of research: Automatic Control and Systems Engineering. Funder : UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Prof Zi-Qiang Lang and his team working on a research project about real-time tool condition monitoring for advanced manufacturing.

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Behind the screens: the crystals that flow like rain down a windowpane

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The research team (left to right): Ian Sage, Akhshay Bhadwal, Joseph Cousins, Nigel Mottram, Carl Brown and Stephen Wilson. FIELD OF RESEARCH. FIELD OF RESEARCH. RESEARCH PROJECT. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Joseph receiving the British Liquid Crystal Society Young Scientist Award.

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Lessons Learned from Running a Scholarship Program for Undergraduate Pre-Service STEM Teachers

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Since 2013, we have led the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Track 1 Montclair State University Noyce Science Teacher Scholarship program ( DUE #1339956 ), which has supported the preparation of 33 biology, chemistry, physics, earth science, and (in our final year) mathematics teacher candidates as well. [i] Acknowledgement.

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How is mathematics applied to real world problems?

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It is used all around us, from weather forecasting, engineering and finance to modelling how diseases spread. It is an incredibly useful field with a wide range of applications from biological and social sciences to computer animation and finance. Anotida with collaborators at the ICMS Research in Group meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Unexpected ways that paint prevents corrosion

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Professor Stuart Lyon and Dr Yanwen Liu, from the University of Manchester, and Dr Andy Parnell, from the University of Sheffield, are part of a research team that has partnered with Anglo-Dutch coatings company AkzoNobel to fill these gaps using a wide range of innovative scientific techniques. The SusCoRD research team.