STEM City USA, Career Communications Group, will host an “Infrastructure Bill Town Hall” with Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure (Environment and Public Works Committee). The senator is also chair of the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Committee and a national leader on fiscal issues while representing the people of Maryland … Continue reading “Save the date: STEM City USA Infrastructure Bill Townhall, Monday, July 26”
Carla Grant Pickens, global chief diversity & inclusion officer at IBM, has been named as one of the leading figures in diversity and inclusion by Leaders magazine.
Delaware State University and Wesley College officials recently announced that they have executed the final agreement of an acquisition that began a year ago. According to the announcement, the deal brings the university to a total student body of nearly 6,000 students, and a $30 million research portfolio, while generating nearly $350 million in economic … Continue reading “Delaware State University announces acquisition of Wesley College”
Brigadier General (retired) Donna Williams first appeared in USBE magazine’s annual “Top Blacks in the U.S. Military” in 2015.
Prairie View A&M University will be hosting an innovative Data Science and Analytics Workshop open to all students regardless of major. According to the historically Black college and university (HBCU), the two-week workshop will focus on data science, data analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, Python, R Programming, Deep Learning, and more. The virtual program is … Continue reading “PVAMU hosts a campus-wide Data Science and Analytics Workshop”
Hampton University (HU) announced recently that six students finished in the top 3 of the Smart Airport Challenge. Funded by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Smart Airport Student Competition asks students to consider the needs of smart airports of the future. “Congratulations to these students,”said Hampton University (HU) President William Harvey in a statement.. … Continue reading “Hampton University is ‘Tackling (More) Lofty Goals’”
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University has announced that four recent mechanical engineering graduates won the 2021 Sandia Senior Design Bonanza Best Engineering Design Process award for their senior capstone design. This year, the competing teams had to develop a launch detection device and protect the payload. “The most rewarding aspect of this senior … Continue reading “MechE grads at N.C. A&T win a Best Engineering Design Process award”
The National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) has announced the selection of Janeen Uzzell as its chief executive officer (CEO).
Recently, Norfolk State University announced a new partnership with Netflix, Inc., a global content platform and production company headquartered in California. In 2020, the streaming giant and the historically Black college and university (HBCU) based in Norfolk, Virginia, created the Netflix HBCU Boot Camp. The inaugural virtual boot camp began in January 2021. In a … Continue reading “Norfolk State alum playing a key role in Netflix HBCU Boot Camp”
Career Communications Group, Inc., publisher of US Black Engineer magazine, has announced that they are accepting nominations for the 2002 Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA). These awards are open to organizations working to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) careers. All nominations are reviewed by a panel … Continue reading “Nominations Now Open for the Black Engineer of the Year Awards!”
