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Morgan State University Portland State University Sultan Moulay Slimane University Zayed University Over two years, 1,500 students across all 15 institutions in Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States, including at The University of New Mexico, will participate in a virtual exchange supported by the Initiative under Connected Classrooms. “At the core of Connected Classrooms is a desire to forge meaningful, equitable partnerships between institutions in Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States through virtual exchange. While the Stevens Initiative provides th...

Mohamed Ahmed's dream of being a construction manager in America was stalled on arrival. The native of Sudan had the desire, but not the contacts in Iowa. And he was constantly running into hurdles caused by cultural differences. For example: The difference between a comma and a period when looking at numbers. In Sudan, if you add one to one-half, a mathematician might record it as "1,5." In the United States, where the 25-year-old Ahmed has lived since November 2016, that's "1.5." "In my home country, we study math differently," Ahmed said.  This is where people like Paul Iversen can h...

Iowa City awards $75,000 to programs boosting diversity in trade jobs, housing advocacy and more Zachary Oren Smith, Iowa City Press-Citizen © Joseph Cress/Iowa City Press-Citizen Mohamed Ahmed, 25, poses for a photo, Thursday, April 8, 2021, in Iowa City, Iowa. Mohamed Ahmed's dream of being a construction manager in America was stalled on arrival. The native of Sudan had the desire, but not the contacts in Iowa. And he was constantly running into hurdles caused by cultural differences. For example: The difference between a comma and a period when looking at numbers. In Su...

NSF 21-066 April 6, 2021 BACKGROUND NSF seeks to lessen the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) research and STEM education research and development. Known impacts include decreased faculty research productivity and difficulty in initiating and/or maintaining a career trajectory in either STEM or STEM education research and development. The goal of this funding opportunity is to support sustained research productivity and career progression of early career researchers who have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. Such suppo...

A Conversation with Educational Trailblazer Adena Williams Loston Growing up in the segregated South, Adena Williams Loston and her siblings would take messages for her father’s plumbing business. He was the first Black, self-employed plumber in her hometown and served predominately white clients, never turning down a job but also showing his kids that dignity mattered. “They would say, ‘Send that n****r over here—because that was his label,” remembers Loston, the president of St. Philip’s College who was named one of the 10 most dominant HBCU leaders of 2021. “We had to write i...