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Creating a Sustainable Energy Future
Tribal colleges are using solar, wind, and geothermal energy to power their campuses and training students for work in Green energy industries. Stronger economies and healthier environments will be the result.
Continue readingHealing the Land
Tribal researchers are studying the impact of mining and oil drilling on reservation lands—and working to repair the damage done
Continue readingFollowing a Path to Fluency
Educators on the Big Island of Hawaii are successfully rebuilding fluency in the Hawaiian language. A new report shows how tribal colleges and Native communities on the mainland can replicate their work.
Continue readingThe Transformative Power of Research
United Tribes Technical College’s new intertribal research center will promote food, energy, and water sustainability within Native communities across the northern Plains
Continue readingSovereignty by the Barrel?
Tribes sit on vast reserves of oil, coal, natural gas, and uranium. Is this a blessing or a curse?
By Katie Scarlett Brandt
Continue readingCaring, Not Competing
The Soul of a Seed
Teaching agriculture at the intersection of western and Native science
By Melanie Lenart
Continue readingWhen You Come in This House, You Speak Mohawk
The long history and hopeful future of Mohawk language revitalization is explored in a new report
By Paul Boyer
Continue readingFrom High School to College, Micropipettors at the Ready
Research is the centerpiece of Salish Kootenai College’s new dual enrollment STEM Academy
By Andrea Panagakis, Mary Larson, and Taylir Schrock
Twenty Years of NATURE
This long-running academic enrichment program is creating pathways to STEM careers for Native students in North Dakota
By Paul Boyer
Mentoring Helps Move the Needle
Working together, students and faculty are finding, and removing, barriers to enrollment and retention in STEM programs
By Lisa B. Bosman