Creating Space for Women to Lead, Innovate, and Thrive
Engineer Jayann Walters reflects on why creating inclusive spaces for women strengthens engineering and drives innovation.Read more at All Together
Analemma over the Callanish Stones
Photo of the Day If you went outside at the same time every day and took a picture that included the Sun, how would the Sun's position change? A visual answer to that question is an analemma, a composite image taken from the same spot at the same time over the course of a [...]
One Invitation That Changed My HP Journey
Caroline Fiona Cruz shares her journey from conference attendee to SWE global ambassador and how one invitation opened the door to connection, growth, and belonging at HP.Read more at All Together
A Treasure Chest in the Carina Nebula
Photo of the Day This treasure chest is full of stars. The featured image was obtained with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and shows a dust pilar in the Carina Nebula inside our Galaxy, roughly 7500 light-years away. It is formed by interstellar gas and dust, and shaped by powerful stellar winds and radiation [...]
Engaging Engineering Students With CCASE and LaGuardia Community College
Learn more about how LaGuardia Community College engages both students and the engineering community.Read more at All Together
A Daytime Eclipse: Moon Occults Venus
Photo of the Day There was something behind the clouds. Upon close inspection, it was the Moon, which was hard to see yesterday around noon above the small village of Cessy, France. But soon, it was not only the Moon. As expected, a bright dot suddenly appeared from behind the Moon -- the planet [...]
Where Your Elements Came From
Photo of the Day The hydrogen in your body and present in every molecule of water came from the Big Bang. There are no other appreciable sources of hydrogen in the universe. The carbon in your body was made by nuclear fusion in the interior of stars, as was the oxygen. Much of the [...]
Kerrilee Stewart-Thomas’s STEM Journey: From Stargazing to Fuel Cells
A childhood fascination with the night sky, plus a knack for taking things apart, led Kerrilee Stewart-Thomas, Ph.D., from Trinidad to a global career developing hydrogen fuel cell technology.Read more at All Together
Hubble: Decagon Around Saturn’s South Pole
Photo of the Day Why are Saturn’s poles geometric? Saturn’s North Pole has been known to be surrounded by a hexagonal (6 sides) cloud since discovery in 1987 in data taken by NASA’s Voyager spacecrafts, which quickly flew past the ringed world in the early 1980s. Now, recent observations of Saturn by the Hubble [...]
SWE Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month
Check out our compilation of online resources at SWE celebrating the Hispanic community and their contributions to STEM. Read more at All Together