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Why This College Student Created a Coloring Book to Celebrate Black Women in STEM

ED Surge

In an education landscape awash in technology, what impact could something as analog as a coloring book make? Did those cultures influence your plans for your education? And for me, the solution was biomedical engineering. Ayanna Howard, who used AI to help send the Mars Rover into space, is Black.

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Utilizing Online Resources to Find the Right STEM Job

Career in STEM

As high schools and colleges educate students more about the opportunities these fields offer, it’s important to find the right STEM job for your personality, education and interests. STEM is an acronym for Science Technology Engineering and Math. STEM fields are full of high paying jobs that require a special set of skills.

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Go on a Mission to Mars!

Vivify Stem

This was the chance to integrate engineering and science in a sequence of activities that were relevant, current, and real. Space Club is an engineering curriculum that is being used by educators around the world! I love how flexible the curriculum is to adapt to different learning environments! Just try it!

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How can we detect and prevent brain injuries?

Futurum

This can destroy a student’s self-confidence and create challenges that may stay with them throughout their educational journey. Participants wear cutting-edge, flexible sensors which track how their heads move in different situations. We use a methodology called Flexible Hybrid Electronics (FHE).

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What causes problems with the lower urinary tract?

Futurum

As a researcher, surgeon, clinician and educator, she highlights the different aspects to careers in this field: investigating issues and aiming to find clinical solutions, working directly with patients, and helping to train and support the next generation of gynaecologists. Cindy wears multiple professional ‘hats’. They all interconnect.

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On the frontline of the biomedical revolution

Futurum

Though we work long and sometimes unsociable hours, we have a good degree of flexibility. “I Lana has worked with clinicians and biomedical engineers to screen for new biomarkers that detect early signs of cardiovascular disease in women who have had pre-eclampsia in the past, thus enabling the vulnerability to be addressed rapidly.

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Shining a light on the role of trace metals in neurodegenerative diseases

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Head of Trace Metals in Medicine Laboratory, School of Engineering, University of Warwick, UK. FIELD OF RESEARCH : Metallomics, Biomedical Engineering. FUNDERS : Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Diamond Light Source, LGC Ltd., Alzheimer’s Society.

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