Glad to see this positive profile of Bernard Harris, one of our NMSI board members, in the Washington Times.

Posted by Dale Fleury, Regional Director

Those who focus on STEM fields have a higher rate of completing a bachelor's degree program, 35 percent, compared to the overall student population, at 29 percent, according to a new report released by the National Center for Education Statistics.

Math majors don't always get much respect on college campuses, but fat post-grad wallets should be enough to give them a boost.

We are excited to share some good news with you! In President Obama's remarks at the U.S. Department of Education today, he challenged everyone to play a role in preparing math and science teachers. He also called on non-profits and universities to support programs such as the UTeach Program.  The President's remarks are pasted below with a link to the transcript on White House website.

Post by Tom Luce, CEO of National Math and Science Initiative, published in the Huffington Post

The recent wave of cyber-attacks on American and South Korean websites raises a new kind of security issue: Do we have enough brainpower in the pipeline to counter such sabotage in the future?

Posted by: Rena Pederson, NMSI Communications Director

Tom Scarritt, editor of the Birmingham Alabama News, has written a thoughtful overview of the new Pew poll on attitudes toward science.

Posted by BJ Goergen, NMSI Chief of Staff:

Pattie Sellers, Editor at Large a FORTUNE magazine, got the NMSI Young Leaders' conference for female college students majoring in math and science off to an exciting start Monday with a roundtable breakfast at the offices of Time Inc. in New York City. Here is the report she immediately posted on her blog "Postcards:"

Here's a great example of the terrific rapport that the AP teachers in programs supported by NMSI grants have with their students:

Jun 17, 2009
By John Winn

The recent article, "Is AP for everybody?" (Telegram & Gazette, June 4) raises a valuable question, but would have benefited from more views explaining that expanding AP is not the problem - it is the solution if the program is expanded appropriately.

Posted by Lin McMullin, NMSI Director of Math Programs

CNN recently did an interesting segment on a robotics competition that boosts minority interest in engineering. Here is the link --

Competing with robots*