The 6th annual Integrative Medicine for the Underserved (IM4US) conference will be held the Irvine Marriott this year with the pre-conference session beginning on August 18 and the conference closing on August 20. Integrative health professionals will have the opportunity to come together over workshops and to listen in with plenary speakers all in efforts to “Collaborate to Create Healthy Communities.”
Read moreOn June 24, the “Live Healthy OC– Empowering a Community of Wellness” initiative was officially launched. The efforts aims to transform community health centers from a disease-focused health delivery model to one that focuses on prevention and health creation through the implementation of integrative health practices and stems back to a partnership formed in 2014 between the Health Funders Partnership of Orange County, the UC Irvine School of Medicine (HFPOC), the Samueli Foundation, the Susan Samueli Center for Integrative Medicine (SSCIM), and the Coalition of Orange County Community Health Centers (Coalition).
Read moreUS News & World Report recently published an op-ed article written by Samueli Foundation Executive Director, Gerald Solomon and STEM Next Director, Ron Ottinger. Both serve as Co-Chairs of the STEM Funders Network and shared their expertise on the concept of STEM learning ecosystems.
Read moreOn May 19, the Orange County STEM Initiative (OC STEM) hosted an evening reception at Discovery Cube OC to both recognize the inaugural cohort of the OC STEM Ecosystem Insitute and welcome its second cohort of nine school district teams. The program is a professional learning institute designed to strengthen Orange County school district leadership through the development of STEM Learning Ecosystems and implementation of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education programs over an intensive 12-month time period.
Read moreSamueli Academy students Cynthia Segura, Blanca Chavez and Eric Mondragon were honored recently at the Anaheim Ducks hockey rink during a ceremony to unveil new Ducks merchandise they helped create.
Read moreThrough collaboration with multiple local partners, the Orange County STEM Initiative (OC STEM) developed and implemented the Women Advancing Through Technology (WATT) program. The pilot was designed as a five-week AutoCAD class for 20 female residents from Jamboree’s affordable housing communities in Orange County and was created in hopes to begin addressing the shortage of women in STEM fields to a greater degree than many other professions.
Read moreThe Samueli Academy, the unveiling of its state-of-the-art building, and plans for the future were recently featured in the Orange County register.
Read moreAs a local extension to the annual ECE STEM Conference in Pasadena, OC STEM hosted a one-day conference in Orange County on February 20 at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim. Over 400 attendees gathered together to explore what STEM education looks like in the early childhood setting. The day featured dynamic speakers, interactive presentations, professional dialogue, and a surprise visit from Tinkerbell.
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