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For too many women interested in pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), it’s still a man’s world. Not only that: it’s also a man’s moon. Bettina Forget is a Public Scholar and PhD candidate in art education in Concordia’s Faculty of Fine Arts. She is studying ways in which the arts and sciences can merge to encourage women to enter STEM fields. This includes astronomy, another discipline heavily dominated by men and whose early pioneers had the privilege of naming discoveries after themselves. As a result, says Forget, far more astronomi...

Date Time Moon’s craters are muse for Concordia researcher’s science-based art Public Scholar Bettina Forget uses 3D printing to create replicas of lunar topography and promote women in STEM For too many women interested in pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), it’s still a man’s world. Not only that: it’s also a man’s moon. Bettina Forget is a Public Scholar and PhD candidate in art education in Concordia’s Faculty of Fine Arts. She is studying ways in which the arts and sciences can merge to encourage women to enter STEM fields. This includes as...

Girls With Impact Announces Virtual Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day for Companies 04/06/2021 | 10:52am EDT Send by mail : Message : NEW YORK, April 06, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day, a national day that gives kids a look into the working world, has been an integral part of many young people’s lives since 1992. With the impact of COVID, Girls With Impact, the nation’s only live, online Business and Leadership Academy for young women 12-21, announced an interactive and fun way for companies to participate in this national day with a virtual e...

Everything you missed at the International Women's Day Concert hosted by Girls With Impact Who runs the world? Girls! Girls With Impact had one mission when coordinating their historic International Women’s Day Benefit Concert: provide good music for a good cause. With musical performances from Madson Reyes, Fletcher and Renée Elise Goldsberry, this star-studded concert co-sponsored by Live Nation and Girls With Impact caught the attention of teens, parents and sponsors from around the world.  The purpose of the concert was to raise funds to "equip under-resourced girls as tomorrow’...

Donations add up for toy fund By Staff Report Share Donations continue to arrive for the Press Herald Toy Fund, which provided gifts for thousands of Maine children last month and will soon begin planning for a 72nd holiday season. The outpouring of support in recent weeks helped lift the spirits of struggling families and sustained the charity through a year like no other. There is no time limit on donations, which are accepted year-round and have sustained the charity for seven decades. • THE PRESS HERALD TOY FUND in the Spirit of Bruce Roberts uses donations from readers to provide toy...