The National Science Foundation grant supported an event that brought John Herrington, the first enrolled Native American (Chickasaw) to fly in space, to the College of Menominee Nation and UW–Madison over a three-day visit. Herrington (back row, third from left) met with students and shared his inspirational journey from childhood to his eventual career at […]
Historic Rejection Letters to Women Engineers
The Society of Women Engineers recently shared a trove of astonishing documents from the group’s archives. They’re letters, loads of them, all directed at women engineering students who had contacted various universities about their interest in connecting with other women studying engineering.
Smartphone app links low-income residents with critical services
Computer science student Ashish Shenoy demonstrates the Health Links smartphone app. Photo by Stephanie Precourt. An ordinary late-January day in Madison—with temperatures in the 30s and about an inch of fresh snow—became memorable when four engineering and computer science students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison received not one, but two pieces of good news: Their […]
