Category: STEM Center News

The STEM Center recently started a new program to help SIUE faculty engage area learners in their research happening right on campus. This year our Community Impact Fellows will be teaching environmental science to area high school students, holding a teacher workshop in mechatronics and robotics for area high school teachers, and will be working…

The STEM Resource Center will close at 12:00 pm, December 21, and will reopen January 2, at 9:30 am. Please contact us at stemcenter@siue.edu or 618-650-3065 if you have any questions about our hours of operation. All of us at the STEM Center wish everyone a safe and happy holidays!

The STEM Center research team is OFF and running! Exploring Global Challenges: A STEM+C Curriculum for Minority Girls, supported by the National Science Foundation, launched last week. The program integrates computational thinking (CT) in an after-school, student-centered learning program in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The program’s goal is to strengthen minority girls’ learning…

The STEM Center at SIUE offers opportunities for undergraduate students to participate in authentic research. One way we do that is by hosting a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site. This REU site allows undergraduates to engage in interdisciplinary archaeological and ecological research that explores evidence consistent with the onset…

The STEM Center is excited to welcome STEM Fellow Henriette Burns to our team! Henriette joins us from Washington State University, where she is in the final phase of completing a PhD in Science/Math Education. Her novel research area focuses on infusing empathy in engineering design as a way to foster student sense of belonging…