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In this 4-page interview, IWITTS’s Executive Director Donna Milgram shares proven strategies STEM educators can use to recruit and retain more women and girls to their STEM courses. Milgram points out some common misconceptions about the best way to recruit and retain more female students to STEM,...

This 33-page paper, written by Susan Payne Carter and Brian J. Miller, discusses transition assistance for Veterans in the United States. "This paper analyzes which active duty enlisted U.S. soldiers are most likely to apply for Unemployment Compensation benefits and offers recommendations for...

This 3-page lesson plan, provided by Northwestern Connecticut Community College, is for an activity where students use the cbioportal.org website to analyze cancer data accumulated through different types of studies. Students will choose a type of cancer and individually research it through...

Learning Unit Description: The Integrated Geospatial Education and Technology Training Project (iGETT) presents a series of Learning Units (LU) designed to incorporate federal land remote sensing data into Geographic Information System (GIS) instruction. The Analyzing Crop Development Patterns in...

This 11-page paper, provided by the American Society for Engineering Education, discusses the creation of an innovative framework from the Advanced Manufacturing and Prototyping Integrated to Unlock Potential (AMP-IT-UP) NSF Math/Science Partnership at the Georgia Institute of Technology. This...

This webinar and checklist, provided by EvaluATE: Evaluation Resource Center for Advanced Technological Education, provides an overview for creating user-friendly evaluation reports. During the webinar, Lori Wingate and Kelly Robertson from EvaluATE walk through the contents of each section of an...

Module Description: The Fire Ecology and Management Series is provided by the Northwest Center for Sustainable Resources and includes six modules. This series “is designed to address both the general role of fire in ecosystems as well as specific wildfire management issues in forest ecosystems.” The...

This 15-page document is provided by AgrowKnowledge and includes an overview of an Animal Science and Biotechnology course in an Agriculture program. "This course is designed to introduce students to the scientific principles that underlie the breeding and husbandry of agricultural animals, and the...

This module provides students the opportunity to "explore silver nanoparticles and their effectiveness against bacterial growth in hands-on laboratory activities." Students first make silver nanoparticles and then use them in an experiment they design. This lesson will require two or more class...

This short article reviews the different types of questions that can be effectively asked in class to promote active learning, with particular relevance for the engineering classroom.