CU Boulder professors Noah Finkelstein of physics and Valerie Otero of education have won the 2023 Svend Pedersen Award and Lecture from Stockholm University.
With the motto 鈥楳other Nature needs her daughters,鈥� group aims to support women working in STEMM in the hope of better sustaining Earth and its people.
One goal is to increase the diversity of STEM fields by emphasizing that 鈥榳e need to stop trying to get girls to act like boys in order to be part of the math world.鈥�
In both the classroom and the lab, the University of Colorado Boulder is a great place to learn physics and other natural sciences, according to the American Physical Society.
Google on Thursday announced a $1.5 million Google.org grant in support of CU Boulder鈥檚 global STEM education project, PhET Interactive Simulations, and rent-free space for the CU Boulder-founded National Center for Women & Information Technology.
The University of Colorado Boulder has been chosen by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) to help lead the SEMINAL project鈥攁 study funded by the National Science Foundation researching how to best incorporate 鈥渁ctive learning鈥� into math classrooms.
By creating a sense of belonging for women in physics, the University of Colorado Boulder is helping female students succeed, experts in the field say.
