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TechSTL and Rung for Women are launching a survey to try to understand the barriers women face in the technology sector and in the broader St. Louis workforce.
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Agriculture companies are looking for people who are interested in science and the majority of jobs aren’t in rural areas of the country. Hiring managers are increasingly looking for people who don’t have traditional ag backgrounds.
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Eight Midwest research institutions are collaborating to launch the Taylor Geospatial Institute at St. Louis University. Students and researchers will develop technology in food security, geospatial science and computation, geospatial health and national security.
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The Trashion Show brought teams of students together to work on collaboration and creativity and have some fun.
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LaTonia Collins Smith is Harris-Stowe State University’s 21st president. During her presidency, Collins Smith hopes to increase enrollment and open university centers for workforce development, entrepreneurship and STEM programs.
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Gateway Global American Youth and Business Alliance Academies is partnering with engineering company Leidos. They aim to add more students to Gateway Global’s “Entry to Executive” program, which prepares students for entry-level geospatial jobs.
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Chemist Cynthia Chapple is the founder of Black Girls Do STEM, a local organization focused on the empowerment of Black girls in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. She explains how the organization is trying to combat barriers faced by women of color in the STEM fields.
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The National Science Foundation has awarded Harris-Stowe State University $342,699 to provide students with research opportunities, experience and mentors. About 40% of African American college students who study science, technology, engineering and math switch their majors before graduating. Harris-Stowe professors say the program could keep Black students focused on STEM and prepare them for rewarding careers.
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A year ago, high school student Dakota Warren could often be found in the backyard of biologist Patty Parker, catching birds in an effort to get blood samples. When she wasn’t in Parker’s yard, she was busy in Parker’s lab at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, conducting DNA research with those samples. This summer, Warren planned to return to Parker’s lab, but then the pandemic hit. And like most people with any plans for 2020, Parker and her teenage interns had to rethink theirs.
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ROLLA — Rural Missouri school districts short on money sometimes struggle with teaching the three R's, so the idea of adding advanced science and…