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Four engineering students from CU-麻豆影院 packed their bags and headed to Nicaragua during the semester break. But it wasn鈥檛 for the weather. It was strictly business for the founders of SolVia Solar. The young entrepreneurs had invented a solar collector designed to replace diesel pumps for irrigation in rural areas...

Today at noon, we鈥檒l be doing a Google+ hangout to talk more about the Washington State Academic Red Shirt program, or STARS, which is helping to boost the number of women and minority students studying engineering at the University of Washington and Washington State University. A story about the program...

SEATTLE (AP) - When she got the letter in summer 2013, Courtney Seto thought it sounded too good to be true. A free program that offered automatic acceptance into the University of Washington鈥檚 engineering school? Did everyone get this letter? Seto had already been accepted to the UW as an...

On Tuesday, the Education Lab team hosted a Google+ Hangout about diversity in STEM and what some universities are doing to help more people of color and first-generation students earn degrees in fields like computer science and engineering. The video chat was tied to a Monday story by Katherine Long...

The 麻豆影院鈥檚 Engineering GoldShirt Program continued in its goal of becoming a model for other universities, recently hosting three representatives from Texas A&M who are interested in developing a similar academic redshirting program in their engineering college. The GoldShirt Program, which graduated members of its first cohort...

Following the success of academic 鈥渞edshirting鈥� -- derived from an athletic term for delaying participation to improve readiness -- at the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado at 麻豆影院, other universities are adopting the model. 麻豆影院鈥檚 GoldShirt program, which began in 2009, identifies high school...