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
Features
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
Salish Kootenai College graduate receives distinguished National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
By Shadin Pete
Changing of the Guard at the USDA
New Behavioral Sciences Degree at Sisseton Wahpeton College
Innovative two-year program, developed with support from mainstream universities, builds research skills and prepares graduates for a wide range of “people” professions.
By Paul Boyer
Minority Undergraduate Students Connect Over STEM Research Projects at United Tribes Technical College
By Katie Scarlett Brandt
Proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline disproportionately affects tribal communities in North Carolina
While the Dakota Access Pipeline continues to generate headlines, a natural gas pipeline under consideration along the eastern seaboard is also coming under scrutiny, in part for its disproportionate impact on Native communities in North Carolina.
Tribal College STEM Programs Brace for Change Under Trump Administration
by Katie Scarlett Brandt
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Former Salish Kootenai College student Matthew Weingart receives prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for work in paleoecology
By Ryan Winn
Continue readingWhite House’s proposed budget targets science
Since the November presidential election, the science community has anxiously worried about the fate of programs and agencies that support and conduct research in the sciences. President Trump’s proposed budget, released this week, offers little reassurance and is already generating a flurry of news stories and commentary.
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Restoring Native Prairie Lands
Students and staff at Sisseton Wahpeton College in South Dakota have re-seeded 100 acres of farmland, restoring a lost prairie.
By Katie Scarlett Brandt
Engineers Save the Day
A new children’s book series created by students at College of Menominee Nation presents engineers as problem-solving heroes
By Ryan Winn