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March 20, 2015

Verizon Launches Campaign to Support Girls in STEM

To learn more about this campaign, click here. […]

March 20, 2015

The Ellen Pao Case: Gender Discrimination in the Silicon Valley

Women are consistently underrepresented and dismissed in the STEM fields and especially in the Silicon Valley technology companies. Ellen Pao’s case is prime example of the challenges facing women in STEM. Pao is filing a lawsuit against one of the most successful Venture Capitalist firms in Silicon Valley for gender discrimination and retaliation. […]

March 20, 2015

United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW59)

One of our NEF team members was given a personal update by a friend participating in the UN Commission on the Status of Women 2015 meeting. It took place from March 9 to 20th in New York. Lyna Javier-Castillo, featured below, has been working with the UN for the last four years. The march towards […]

March 5, 2015

Device Invented by Car Mechanic that could Revolutionize Childbirth

Jorge Odon, age 60, a car mechanic by profession is the inventor of a childbirth device. His idea was to replace the cruder forceps with with a smaller plastic bag inside the womb to ease pressure on a birth with complications. According to Odon: “At 3 a.m. I woke up with the idea [for the […]

March 1, 2015

Women and the mathematical sciences should make an amicable pair in Africa

Author: Thierry Zomahoun I recently spoke to someone who told me that mathematics and science are gender blind. They do not see sex, gender, race, ability. It is simply numbers and equations and if one has the right aptitude, they can learn and apply it. If mathematics and science were indeed gender blind, why are […]

March 1, 2015

Women and the mathematical sciences should make an amicable pair in Africa

AIMS CEO, Thierry Zomahoun writes about gender equity in STEM and how AIMS is bringing more women to the fore: Excerpt: ” What we need now is strong leadership to break through these gender equality challenges in an innovative and scalable way. As we look to the future, we need to recognise the strides we […]

February 26, 2015

NEF Monthly Newsletters – February 2015

NEF Weekly Newsletter – 27 February 2015 – Science Meets Traditional Medicine Sent Thursday, February 26, 2015 Welcome to the weekly NEF Newsletter on Science Meets Traditional Medicine. Please follow us on Facebook and Twitter. NEF FACT OF THE WEEK Physicians per 1,000 people. Data includes generalist and specialist medical practitioners. Data is collected from […]

February 20, 2015

Rwanda’s Green Revolution

Rwanda is one of the African countries propelled ahead by the use of science to boost its nation’s food security. As a landlocked country in central Africa, Rwanda has confronted some challenges in the past. Farmers did not have the tools to boost production. In 2006, it was estimated that more than 80% of Rwandans […]

February 18, 2015

Minority and Women Scientists and Engineers Honored at the AAAS 2015 Annual Meeting

Women and minority scientists and engineers were honored at the AAAS Annual Meeting in San Jose. These are all PhDs and researchers in STEM fields representing Nigeria, Sudan and Vietnam. Hearing about the challenges they faced to establish labs, some conducting research in rural areas, given extremely limited resources and in places where women still […]

February 11, 2015

Preparing for the AAAS Annual Meeting 2015

Every year, members, supporters and affiliates of the AAAS, the American Association for the Advancement of Science convene to discuss recent developments in science and technology. This year’s theme is Innovation, Information and Imaging and involves examining the changes across all disciplines of science and technology brought about by advancements made in organizing, visualizing and […]