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This transformative funding aims to boost the region’s workforce in high-demand tech sectors, including photonics, remote sensing, autonomous vehicles, and circuit board manufacturing.
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Diné College Program Secures Second Patent
The new patented technology can be used by healthcare workers to better diagnose a variety of different disorders or conditions.
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TCU Building Bridges Program Selects Awardees
AIHEC and NASA created the grant program to broaden TCU student participation in STEM programs through projects that support curriculum development, enhance research activities, and increase student engagement.
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Six NTU Programs Receive Extended ABET Accreditation
Navajo Technical University’s ABET accreditation recognizes and ensures that its engineering and technology programs meet industry standards required of all graduates entering the workforce.
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Convoy: Innovative Training for Indigenous Youth
To help address the gap in STEM education for Native students, faculty from Diné College initiated Convoy, a five-year education and professional development program that seeks to uplift youth from schools across the Navajo Nation.
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NTU Holds STEM and Skills Maker Faire
Navajo Technical University and Wingate High School hosted over 60 students who displayed their work and projects from their STEM and skills courses.
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Navajo Tech Holds Diné Maker Faire
The faire is part of Navajo Technical University’s Summer STEM and Skills Program, which began in 2018 and introduces dual credit students to a variety of academic and vocational fields.
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TCUs and NSF Seek to Increase Representation in Engineering
Two NSF-funded programs, the Pre-engineering Education Collaboratives and Partnerships for Geoscience Education, are working to increase the number of Native students pursuing degrees in engineering and geosciences, respectively.
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NHSC Partners on Training Minority Students in Nuclear and Related Sciences
Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College and Alcorn State University will collaborate on a $1.8 million grant from the National Nuclear Security Administration for the Minority Serving Institutions Program.
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Whole Family Engagement: STEM Education at United Tribes Technical College
As an intertribal college, UTTC cares about its diverse student body. Three students relate their stories, illuminating how the institution and its faculty have accommodated their families and incorporated them into college life.
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Leech Lake Tribal College to Hold Family STEM Event
On Sunday, March 29, the Leech Lake Tribal College STEM Department will be hosting the 5th annual Across the Universe community event.
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Carol Davis on Indigenous STEM
A pathfinder of the tribal college movement, Carol Davis discusses how Indigenous STEM has developed at Turtle Mountain Community College and at TCUs more broadly in this TCJ-exclusive podcast.
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UTTC and Elementary School Students Collaborate to Investigate STEM
STEM project-based learning is a successful instructional approach to improve students’ mathematical abilities. With support from the Intertribal research and resource Center (IrrC), faculty at United Tribes Technical College (UTTC) began work last spring developing a summer STEM outreach program involving students from Theodore Jamerson Elementary School (TJES) and preservice education students at UTTC.
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SKC Research Center Uses Indigenous Methodologies in STEM
Salish Kootenai College (SKC) has established the Indigenous research Center (IRC), which seeks to diversify scientific thought and advocates that an Indigenous experience and approach to science is novel and innovative.
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NSF Supports New STEM-Focused Website for Tribal Colleges
For many years, science was only a small part of the curriculum at most tribal colleges. A few introductory-level classes were all that students could expect.
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Diné College Takes New Approach with Research Program
The Diné College Summer research Enhancement Program (SREP) includes students and administrators from area universities who participate in a series of presentations on public health and disease prevention.
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Using GIS to Develop a Career Pathway for Tribal College Students
Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College is developing a pipeline for students studying Geographic Information Systems, providing technological opportunities and preparing students for the future.
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On Science, Culture, and Curriculum: Enhancing Native American Participation in Science-Related Fields
The application of appropriate forms of Native science, culturally responsive education, and creative strategizing enhances the participation of Native American students in STEM courses.
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Engineering the Future: How Navajo Technical University Developed the First Tribally Controlled Engineering Program
Faye Clawson was the first student to graduate from NTU’s groundbreaking baccalaureate program in industrial engineering. Her success, as well as that of the entire program, rests on a curriculum rooted in Diné educational philosophy.
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Challenge Accepted: Doing STEM the Spirit Lake Dakota Way
In a world where the separation of STEM from culture is often praised, Cankdeska Cikana Community College strives for the opposite, blending them together to honor Dakota traditions and better serve the Spirit Lake Nation.
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Native Knowledge For New Horizons: AIHEC’s STEM Initiatives
The American Indian Higher Education Consortium is helping to facilitate tribal colleges’ role as a link between Native communities and national and global scientific resources.
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Learning the Way of the Home Place: Ecology at Aaniiih Nakoda College
In 1995, Aaniiih Nakoda College (ANC) awarded its first five Associate of Science degrees in natural resources. Now, ANC is planning to expand the program by offering its first baccalaureate degree.
