Governor Gina M. Raimondo issued a proclamation declaring March as ‘STEAM Month’ in Rhode Island. STEAM Month highlights the work Rhode Island is currently doing to support STEAM education and economic development. On Tuesday, March 5 and Wednesday, March 6, members…
Rhode Island released an 85-page climate-preparedness strategy – Resilient Rhody – which responds to changing weather and environmental conditions in Rhode Island caused by climate change. The report offers recommendations and implementable actions to better prepare the state for these…
Science Rising is a nationwide mobilization effort taking place throughout 2018 in the run-up to the midterm elections. It is not a one-day march—it is a series of local activities, events, and actions organized by many different groups. Many activities are…
On April 6, 2018, four first-class stamps that pay tribute to the study of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) were released by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). Each stamp features a collage of faces, symbols, drawings, and numbers that…
The American Academy of Arts & Sciences has released Perceptions of Science in America: A Report from the Public Face of Science Initiative, the first in a three-year series that will examine the relationship between scientists and the public. It…
A new report, Digitalization and the American Workforce, has recently been released by the Brookings Institutions Metropolitan Policy Program. Designed to track the spread of digital adoption, the report provides a detailed analysis of changes in the digital content of…
Watershed Counts is a collaborative initiative of 60 partners, facilitated by the URI Coastal Institute in its role as Chair of the Rhode Island Environmental Monitoring Collaborative and the Narragansett Bay Estuary Program, working together to evaluate the conditions and…
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) along with Senators Brian Schatz (D-HI), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) , and Edward J. Markey (D-MA) sent a letter to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to highlight bogus materials sent by the Heartland Institute to more than 300,000…
National Grid’s Fundraiser Program enables schools to raise funds while teaching he community about energy efficiency and conservation. Participation is easy and each school keeps 100% of the money collected through the fundraiser. The program is targeted at grades K-8…
The Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) invites teachers, curriculum supervisors, administrators, business leaders and the broad education and business communities to review the K-12 Computer Science (CS) Standards and offer feedback. The CS standards include computer science learning objectives to…
