Blog Series
Learn about the strategies that S-STEM grantees are using to support talented low-income STEM students.
From Doubt to Doctorate: Applying to Grad School with Confidence
Growing up in eastern Kentucky, women in technical fields were rare. My mother was an outlier. She had my brother at 14 and me at 20, and she used her GED to e…
Student Voice as a Pathway to Student Success
Student Voice is Often Highlighted as an Approach to Better Understand Student Problems, but How Do You Capture It?In fall 2023, Hollins University, a historic…
The Invitation That Changes a STEM Trajectory
As a first-generation college student in a developing country, I believed that studying abroad was the only pathway to expanding my academic world. When I was …
Scholar Spotlight: Rumman Shahzad
Rumman Shahzad is an S-STEM Scholar at Central Connecticut State University. In this S-STEM Scholar Spotlight, Rumman shares where he sees himself within the n…
2026 S-STEM Meeting Logo Designed by Ella Stenberg
This October, the S-STEM Resource and Evaluation Center (REC) will host the 2026 S-STEM Scholars & PI Meeting in Washington, DC. To commemorate this meetin…
Creating Mentored Research Opportunities for First-Year Students
Undergraduate research is widely recognized as a high-impact educational practice, but it is most often reserved for students who have completed multiple years…
From the Back of the Classroom to Bioinformatics
This blog shares the journey of a low-income Black woman navigating STEM through barriers like educational tracking, stereotype threat, academic trauma, and fi…
Scholar Spotlight: Nurhaliza Syukur
Nurhaliza Syukur is an S-STEM Scholar at Utica University. In this S-STEM Scholar Spotlight, Nurhaliza shares her vision for the future of STEM and the impact …
Informal STEM Access for Equity and Opportunity
The persistent underrepresentation of students from low-income households in STEM fields remains a critical concern for education researchers and practitioners…
S-STEM Scholar Spotlight: Alyssa Montanez
Alyssa Montanez is an S-STEM Scholar at Arcadia University. In this S-STEM Scholar Spotlight, Alyssa shares how she has come to feel a sense of belonging in ST…
A Scaffolded Path for Neurodivergent STEM Success
In the classroom, scaffolding assignments are a common technique that benefits all students, especially neurodivergent students (Choi & Lee, 2021). We prop…
Collective Mentorship for Systemic Change in STEM
The Spanish saying "Dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres" (Tell me who you surround yourself with, and I will tell you who you are) captures the essence o…
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