STEM

Chemist Cynthia Chapple is the founder of Black Girls Do STEM, a local organization focused on the empowerment of Black girls in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. She explains how the organization is trying to combat barriers faced by women of color in the STEM fields.

The National Science Foundation has awarded Harris-Stowe State University $342,699 to provide students with research opportunities, experience and mentors. About 40% of African American college students who study science, technology, engineering and math switch their majors before graduating. Harris-Stowe professors say the program could keep Black students focused on STEM and prepare them for rewarding careers.

A year ago, high school student Dakota Warren could often be found in the backyard of biologist Patty Parker, catching birds in an effort to get blood samples. When she wasn’t in Parker’s yard, she was busy in Parker’s lab at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, conducting DNA research with those samples. This summer, Warren planned to return to Parker’s lab, but then the pandemic hit. And like most people with any plans for 2020, Parker and her teenage interns had to rethink theirs.

ROLLA — Rural Missouri school districts short on money sometimes struggle with teaching the three R's, so the idea of adding advanced science and…

Washington University is spearheading a new effort to diversify the field of data science.Beginning in 2020, the university will train faculty and grad…

MADISON — A program that pairs science and technology education with car racing hit the track at World Wide Technology Raceway on Thursday.For the first…

At the St. Louis Science Center’s GROW exhibit on agriculture, a metal box casts violet light on a dozen basil plants.A St. Louis-based startup called…

Retired astronaut and U.S. Air Force officer Catherine “Cady” Coleman is among very few people who have lived in space. But during a visit to St. Louis…

The Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis will be celebrating the grand opening of a new teen tech center on Thursday. The center — which will reside at…

It’s mission accomplished for Gov. Mike Parson, as the Missouri Legislature’s special session is all but over.The Senate Friday debated and passed both…