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ExxonMobil Foundation Grant to Teach For America to Recruit, Prepare Math and Science Teachers in Low-Income Communities
Jan. 19, 2011 (Business Wire) -- The ExxonMobil Foundation is contributing $500,000 to Teach For America to recruit and train more than 400 outstanding recent college graduates to teach math and science in public middle schools in low-income communit…
A much appreciated word of support
Posted by Tom Luce, NMSI CEO and President: Thanksgiving came early at the National Math and Science Initiative -- everyone at NMSI was pleased to see this commentary by Ken Cohen, Vice President of Public Affairs at Exxon Mobil and a new NMSI board …
Young Leaders Program Participants Speak at Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit
Posted by Alia Mohmed, NMSI coordinator of the Young Leaders program:View the video footage of Meredith Gibson, student at Iowa State, and Margaret Mattix, Vice President of Global Marketing at ExxonMobil Chemical Company, speaking about their …
Dr. Bernard Harris op-ed piece in Houston Cronicle
Posted by Rena Pederson, NMSI Communications Director: Dr. Bernard Harris, former NASA Astronaut and a member of the NMSI board, is a great champion of math and education for young people. He wrote a terrific op-ed piece that appeared in today's Hous…
Phil Mickelson's Science Project
The world's No. 2 golfer wants America to be No. 1 in science.Wall Street Journal …
NMSI Young Leaders program bridging the “gender gap”
NEW YORK – College women majoring in math and science got personal encouragement this summer from Fortune 500 executives on how they can bridge the “gender gap” in their fields by becoming leaders themselves and then reaching out to the next ge…
Beyond gossip girls: College women talk math and science
by Jessica Shambora (FORTUNE blog) Yesterday morning a group of 22 college women gathered at the Time & Life building in New York City for breakfast. Not surprisingly, they were abuzz with chatter. But the topic du jour wasn't the next Twilight f…
NMSI Young Leaders Program event underway in New York
Talented and bright college women from across the country convened in New York City last night for the kick-off of NMSI’s Young Leaders Program Capstone event. Sponsored by FORTUNE magazine and Exxon Mobil Corporation, a founding sponsor of N…
NMSI Spotlighted at Golf Tournament
NMSI and the importance of math and science were in the spotlight at the Master’s Golf Tournament along with the golfers thanks to this timely ExxonMobil ad: http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/community_math_nmsi.aspx …
Rex W. Tillerson, CEO of ExxonMobil, Honored by World Affairs Council of Houston
Posted by Tom Luce, CEO, NMSI It’s good to see that ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, who has been so strongly supportive of improving math and science for all of America’s young people, will receive well-deserved recognition from the Houston W…
