Tag Archive: STEM

July 7, 2021

Partner News: UCLA Samueli Launches Mentor Professor Program to Enhance Equity and Diversity

The UCLA Samueli School of Engineering is proud to welcome three new faculty members to its growing roster of nearly 200 full-time professors. The recruitment is part of the school’s Mentor Professor Program, a new initiative designed to hire faculty with a demonstrated record of, or who show exceptional promise for, mentorship of students from underrepresented and underserved populations.

June 4, 2019

Henry and Susan Samueli Give $100 million to Expand UCLA’s Engineering School

The UCLA Samueli School of Engineering has received its largest gift ever: $100 million from longtime supporters Henry and Susan Samueli. The gift, made through the Samueli Foundation, will be used to spur the engineering school’s planned expansion, which is to continue well into the next decade and is its most significant growth since the school was founded in 1945.

December 4, 2018

National Experts: Forming STEM Ecosystems is Top Priority

Acting on recommendations of top national education experts, the federal government Tuesday issued the “Charting A Course for Success: America’s Strategy for STEM Education,” listing participation of all Americans in STEM ecosystems as a top priority.

November 30, 2018

Tel Aviv University’s New Susan and Henry Samueli Engineering Building Creates A New Model for Academy-Industry Ties

One of Tel Aviv University’s most ambitious collaborations to date is being realized through the vision of Prof. Henry Samueli, co-founder and CTO of semiconductor giant Broadcom Inc., and his wife Dr. Susan Samueli. The new R&D center for Broadcom being built on the TAU campus will be dedicated in their name. The Building is unique in that it will house Broadcom engineers and TAU professors and students – all under one roof.

May 1, 2018

OC High School Esports League Concludes Extraordinary Inaugural Season

Under leadership of the Samueli Foundation, League to expand this fall after witnessing hundreds of high schoolers who were fully immersed in their own growth and education while battling rival teams for top honors.

(Orange County, CA – April 30, 2018) – The dark horse Fountain Valley High School took the gold in the championship match of the inaugural season of the Orange County High School Esports League™. Fountain Valley’s aggressive style enabled the team to earn more gold and secure more control of the map in the popular League of Legends esports game.

April 5, 2018

Workforce of Tomorrow: Shifting to the New Collar Economy

STEM Learning Ecosystems joined U.S. News & World Report’s STEM Solutions to collaborate on the Workforce of Tomorrow conference in Washington, D.C. Panelists, including Gerald Solomon, Executive Director of the Samueli Foundation and Gregory Washington, Dean of The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at University of California, Irvine, emphasized the importance of STEM-based curriculums to prepare for the workforce changes upon us.

October 19, 2017

SXSW EDU 2018 selects STEM Learning Ecosystems to lead panel on Employability in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM)

STEM Learning Ecosystems is proud to announce its selection as presenters at SXSW EDU 2018. The panel discussion, Not “Random Acts of STEM”: Planned Career Success, will be part of the Employability track.

October 4, 2017

STEM Learning Ecosystems and U.S. News STEM Solutions Collaborate to Focus on an Education Pipeline to Prepare Students for Jobs in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math

With a laser focus on ensuring that education will prepare students for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) jobs, STEM Learning Ecosystems and U.S. News STEM Solutions have announced that they will collaborate on a joint conference in April 2018.

April 25, 2017

New UCI Convergent Sciences Building to Fuel Major Innovation and Research

A gift from the Samueli Foundation will help fund a state-of-the-art convergent science building, expanding the University of California, Irvine’s ability to conduct large-scale, collaborative and cross-disciplinary research in engineering, computing, and physical sciences.

March 24, 2017

Samueli Foundation Engineering Undergraduate Scholarship Fund Announced

The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science received a $20 million gift from the Samueli Foundation to support expanding the diversity of undergraduate students in engineering and computer science. The donation, which builds on Henry and Susan Samueli’s previous gifts, will fund a new program combining scholarships and internships for as many as 50 freshman students annually.

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