Strengthening SWE’s Strategic Future: Reflections From the FY26 Annual Strategic Planning Subteam
Focus on building a strong foundation, evaluating strategic themes, and advancing transparency and strategic alignment.Read more at All Together
Total Solar Eclipse from Greenland
Photo of the Day On August 12, the Moon's shadow reached out to touch our fair planet. Beginning in the Arctic Ocean, it swept along a narrow track that led the dark lunar umbra across parts of Greenland, Iceland, the Atlantic, Portugal, and northern Spain. And for a moment, denizens of Earth who found [...]
SWE CEO Joins Capitol Hill Briefing on 250 Years of Women Breaking Barriers in STEM
At a Capitol Hill briefing, SWE CEO Karen Horting highlighted the importance of hands-on STEM education, workforce reentry opportunitites, and federal policies that help more women pursue and remain in STEM careers.Read more at All Together
Total Solar Eclipse Over Spain
Photo of the Day On August 12th, 2026, the Moon totally eclipsed the Sun and cast its shadow across Siberia, Greenland, Iceland, Spain, and Portugal. Today’s image features two total solar eclipses viewed from Zaragoza, Spain, one over the Cathedral-Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar and the other reflecting in the Ebro River. [...]
Grad School, Lessons Learned
As part of the GradSWE Affinity Group's spotlight month, SWE member and GradSWE Affinity Group Conference Coordinator Lucero Lopez shares her top five tips for getting you through grad school.Read more at All Together
Perseids Over a little Planet
Photo of the Day It looks like a view from the Little Prince's planet. The featured image is a throwback to the 2024 Perseid meteor shower, surrounded in this projection by the Bieszczady Mountains in Poland. Visible in the sky is the arch of the Milky Way, along with several nebulas in red and [...]
SWENext Club Spotlight: Young STEMists
Meet the Young STEMists SWENext Club, where students in Nigeria build their confidence in engineering through mentorship and hands-on STEM projects.Read more at All Together
A Messier Moment for Tempel 2
Photo of the Day Which of these is not a comet? You guessed it - the one on the right is a globular star cluster. The diffuse greenish coma of periodic comet 10P/Tempel 2 is at left in the frame. In fact the globular star cluster is Messier 30, also known as M30, or [...]
New Sharpest Image of the Sun Uncovers Instability
Photo of the Day What does the new sharpest image of our Sun show? Instability. To be clear, a certain kind of interactive process called the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI). This instability can create waves and swirls when two streams flow past each other -- in this case variable streams of solar magnetic plasma. Long [...]
I Asked Women Engineers to Write Fiction. Here’s What Happened.
Engineer Gayathri Shukla explores how writing fiction helped women engineers reimagine the systems they work within every day.Read more at All Together