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Catalyzing systemic change: Team will use $1.3 million in funding to reduce racial disparities in STEM graduate programs

Posted by Heather Tate on March 7, 2022

Partnership between NAU-Flagstaff, NAU-Yuma and Diné College will address educational inequities on an institutional level

Catherine Propper and RISe student working in the labAccording to the National Center for Education Statistics, only 10 percent of all M.S. degrees were awarded to Latinx students between 2015-16, and a stunningly low 1 percent to Indigenous students. The… Read more

Filed Under: College of Arts and Letters, College of Education, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, Department of Educational Leadership, Department of English, School of Forestry, STEM

NAU’s Center for Health Equity Research receives $1.2 million in funding for multidisciplinary projects related to COVID-19

Posted by Heather Tate on October 21, 2020

Julie Baldwin standing inside the ARD buildingResearchers in Northern Arizona University’s Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) and the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative (SHERC) recently received four grants totaling more than $1 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for projects related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

NAU Regents’ Professor Julie Baldwin, director of CHER and the… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Health Equity Research, College of Education, College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, College of Health and Human Services, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, COVID-19, Department of Anthropology, Department of Applied Indigenous Studies, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Educational Leadership, Department of Educational Psychology, Department of Educational Specialties, Department of Health Sciences, Department of Occupational Therapy, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative

NAU professors investigate potential cultural barriers to Indigenous peoples’ success in STEM fields

Posted by Heather Tate on November 26, 2018

Jani Ingram working in her laboratory. Nov. 26, 2018

Indigenous people have the lowest rate of university enrollment and graduation rates of any group in the United States—and in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields, they represent only 0.5 percent of students nationwide. Professionals in STEM careers are underrepresented as well—Native Americans make up only 0.4 percent of the engineering workforce, according to… Read more

Filed Under: College of Education, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Educational Leadership, Office of Native American Initiatives, RISE, STEM

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