ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 02, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) has been awarded a $2.2-million, three-year grant from the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation to continue and expand the work of the 50K Coalition, a national effort to produce 50,000 diverse engineers annually in the United States by 2025.
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Clark Foundation establishes Vanderbilt engineering school endowment
The A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation has established a $1 million endowment at the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering to support its faculty. This investment honors Courtney Clark Pastrick’s service on Vanderbilt’s Board of Trust from 2010 to 2020.
New endowments to support faculty and recruitment
The A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation has established a $1 million endowment at the School of Engineering to support its faculty. This investment honors Courtney Clark Pastrick’s service on Vanderbilt’s Board of Trust.
Operation Homefront November 2020 Impact Report
Throughout 2020, when military families experienced the financial strain created by the pandemic, the turned to Operation Homefront.
Operation Homefront Update: COVID-19 continues to impact military families
It has been a tough year for many of our fellow Americans due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and our military families have been particularly hard hit. Operation Homefront continues to be a source of relief for these families and to date, we have fulfilled over 1200
Academy of Hope’s Joy Bentley Phillips Drives Meaningful Change Through Adult Education
Trying to keep our families and friends safe and healthy while balancing our personal and professional lives—in 2020, this became an almost impossible task for many. Despite these obstacles, though, Joy Bentley Phillips, Chief Advancement Officer at the Academy of Hope (AoH)—one of D.C.’s premier adult education charter high school—was able to help her team and her adult learners thrive.
Monument Academy in Washington, D.C. is providing a safe space for its students amid pandemic
Monument Academy safely reopened amid the pandemic for its most vulnerable students with distance learning difficulties. The school’s CEO is the driving force behind its success. Jeff Pegues reports from Washington, D.C.
GW Reaches $3.2M Agreement to Support Development of Cold Plasma Technology
George Washington University has entered a new $3.2 million corporate research agreement with US Patent Innovations, LLC (USPI) to support further development of adaptive cold plasma devices for cancer therapies and explore using these devices to combat the spread of COVID-19.
This agreement is a continuation of a cooperation between Michael Keidar, a pioneer in cold plasma research and the A. James Clark Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Jerome Canady, a surgical oncologist and a trailblazer in low temperature hybrid and cold plasma technologies. Dr. Canady is also the Chief Science Officer at the Jerome Canady Research Institute For Advanced Biological and Technological Sciences (JCRI-ABTS), and CEO of Plasma Medicine Life Sciences (PMLS), a division USPI.
Engineering associate dean and alumna recognized for their contributions in STEM
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Tonya Peeples, associate dean for equity and inclusion and professor of chemical engineering in Penn State’s College of Engineering, and Penn State chemical engineering and Schreyer Scholar alumna Paula Garcia Todd recently received Million Women Mentors (MWM) Trailblazer Awards.
These awards were presented by STEMConnector, the nation’s largest professional services organization dedicated to developing a diverse, STEM-ready workforce.
Serving those who serve: Honoring veterans, military members on Veterans Day
This Veterans Day, Starbucks is honoring those who have served with a free tall (12-ounce) hot brewed coffee for veterans, military service members and military spouses at participating U.S. Starbucks stores on Nov. 11. Starbucks is also donating 25 cents for every cup of hot brewed coffee sold nationwide on Nov. 11 to be divided evenly between Team Red, White & Blue and Headstrong to support the mental health and the wellbeing of military communities.