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HHMI Bulletin February 2012 Cori Vanchieri.	Susan Singer: A Magical Moment The time to entice students to be STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) teachers is during the first years of college, says Susan Singer, a professor of natural sciences at Carleton College.
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T.H.E. Journal February 17, 2010 Patricia Deubel	Web 2.0 in Instruction: Adding Spice to Math Education Mathematics lags behind other subjects in class-centered web 2.0 communities for children, and an even larger lag in informal, recreational communities.
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Job Journal May 13, 2007	Career Snapshot: Civil & Structural Engineers California's crumbling infrastructure adds to a growing demand for civil and structural engineers.
Inc. October 2005 Shramm & Litan	Op-ed: Foreign Students Who Study Engineering Deserve Citizenship It's time that we stop envying China, and start making the U.S. a friendlier place for engineers.
Geotimes April 2007 Vernon J. Ehlers	Education: Why Do I Have to Learn Geometry? The study of science, technology, engineering and math is critical for every student in our nation, not only for enhancing their opportunities for good jobs, but also for improving our national security and competitiveness.
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T.H.E. Journal July 2006 Geoffrey H. Fletcher	Using Technology to Maintain Competitiveness: How to Get Our Groove Back As China and India threaten the supremacy of the US economy, our best hope for keeping pace is putting ed tech funding to use to galvanize education.
Bio-IT World December 15, 2003 Zachary Zimmerman	Learning the Language of Systems Biology Geneticist par excellence David Botstein talks about his philosophy, science, his mission for integrative science, and what he deems a success for systems biology.
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IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Prachi Patel-Predd	From Nerd to Wonk Tired of designing devices that policy-makers will misuse? Go back to school and train to become a policy maven yourself. Of course, there are other options for engineers who want to view the world through a wider-angle lens than the one they got in college.
National Defense June 2007 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Education Trends Portend Trouble for Defense One of the most troubling trends in the U.S. is that our schools are producing fewer U.S.-born science and math graduates than countries such as China, Taiwan, South Korea, India and Mexico.
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IEEE Spectrum April 2006 Stephen Barlas	Crazy About Competitiveness The U.S. Congress and the White House look to boost science and technology education in the 2007 federal budget.
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T.H.E. Journal February 2007 Andrew Matranga	Solving the Math/Science Riddle The way out of our most serious educational challenge may lie in a host of new digital curriculum supplements.
National Defense December 2010 Cynthia D. Miller	JETS Promotes Engineering, Math To U.S. High School Students Though science, technology, engineering and math education is receiving a lot of press today, there have been organizations dedicated to the advancement of the fields for many decades.
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Food Engineering February 1, 2007 Joyce Fassl	Promoting the Profession Retaining engineering knowledge within manufacturing operations as well as laying the groundwork to foster more interest in engineering careers may be some of the toughest problems the food industry will face in the next decade.
IEEE Spectrum September 2006 Robert W Lucky	Unsystematic Engineering If systems engineering is so valuable, why is it so seldom practiced? In recent years, a number of well-known universities have begun new programs in systems engineering. Maybe now is the time for these programs to become successful.
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