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A monthly compilation of articles on black culture in ASTEM.
1. VSU Business School wins Technology Award
2. New York Based Tech Company Worldcast Inc. Bringing Entertainment to You Live Online
3. Rolls-Royce named a top Supporter of Black Engineering Schools
4. AIAPF Announces Perspectives: Women in Architecture (WIA)
5. Three African-American Earn Doctorates in Chemistry, Set UM Record for Single Year
6. We Need More Black Faces in Science and Technology Fields
7. Study Highlights STEM Challenges
8. Xavier University Recognized by UNCF Merck Science Initiative
9. 37 African American Students Awarded Prestigious UNCF/MERCK Science Initiative Scholarships Fellowships in Biosciences
10. Southern Schools Parnter In $4M STEM Program For Minorities
VSU Business School Wins Technology Award
Virginia State University's Reginald F. Lewis School of Business (RFLSB) has been awarded the RichTech Technology Innovation Deployment Award. The award honors companies or organizations that successfully implement creative technologies to enhance processes, methodologies and/or services for their own, or other's benefit.
New York Based Tech Company Worldcast Inc. Bringing Entertainment to You Live Online
Minority founders Peter Lewis and Darren Skeete found their own way of combining two of the largest industries; technology and entertainment with their company Worldcast, Inc. Worldcast is an on demand media platform that streams live entertainment from anywhere in the world online. The platform will offer three components including, DJ On Demand, Entertainers On Demand and Event On Demand.
Rolls-Royce Named a Top Supporter of Black Engineering Schools Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has been named a "Top Supporter" of historically black engineering schools in the U.S. by deans at the nation's prominent historically black colleges and universities (HBCU). This year marks the third consecutive naming for Rolls-Royce which is based upon annual survey by U.S. Black Engineer & Information Technology (USBE&IT) magazine.
AIAPF Announces Perspectives: Women in Architecture (WIA) A Panel Symposium on Issues Facing Women within the Architecture Profession
The American Institute of Architecture Pasadena & Foothill Chapter is a professional organization serving local architects, promoting architecture and the built environment in the San Gabriel Valley through advocacy, information, and community. As part of its mission to champion diversity within the design profession, AIAPF is proud to present WIA: Acknowledging, Understanding and Celebrating Women in Architecture.
Three African-Americans Earn Doctorates in Chemistry, Set UM Record for Single Year Less than a year after launching an aggressive initiative to increase the number of graduates in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, the University of Mississippi has recorded and impressive national achievement. The University graduated three African-American students with doctorates in chemistry, and exceptional number for any university. The history-making candidates who received their degrees were Kari Copeland of Coldwater, Margo Montgomery of New Orleans and Jeffrey Veals of Gloster. And a fourth African-American student, Shanna Stoddard of Louisville, KY., is on track to earn her doctorate in chemistry in December.
We Need More Black Faces in Science and Technology Fields Science, Technology and Engineering and Mathematics fields Need More Faces of Color
As it relates to the economy, Dr. Elizabeth Grossman, a Technology Policy Strategist for Microsoft says the computing industry will have 1.4 million jobs in the year 2020, but the US labor force will only be able to fill about 30 percent of the open positions. That's just one industry. Imagine how many other positions will exist in STEM fields that will be left vacant as our student are void of the relevant knowledge...We know where the hobs of the future will be, but how are we preparing our students to fill these jobs?
Study Highlights STEM Challenges
In December, BayerCorp. released its annual study examining the underrepresentation of Women, blacks, Hispanics and American Indians in many U.S. STEM fields. Bayer polled 413 STEM department chairs at the country's leading research universities. The study classified the majority as white and Asian males.
Xavier University Recognized by UNSF Merck Science Initiative Xavier University of Louisiana's Undergraduate STEM program is recognized with a $500,000 grant from UNF/Merck Science Initiative (UMSI), in conjunction with the UNCF Institute for capacity Building, for a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Capacity Building Program. As the only recipient of this grant, Xavier University was able to demonstrate the strength of their STEM program and stand out in UMSI's competitive selection process.
37 African American Students Awarded Prestigious UNCF/MERCK Science Scholarships and Fellowships in Biosciences The UNCF/MERCK Science Initiative, a partnership of UNCF (United Negro College Fund), the nations's largest and most effective minority education organization, and Merck, a global healthcare leader working to help the world be well, today annouced that it would award scholarships and fellowships to 37 African American students of biological science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines... Southern Schools Partner In $4M STEM Program For Minorities The National Science Foundation has renewed a five-year, $4.9 million grant to the Universities of Georgia and six partner institutions that aims to bolster the number off students from underrepresented minorities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. | 
