Water, water, everywhere …

As you read this, you’re surrounded on all sides … by water. Even in the driest of climates, it’s everywhere,…

Paving a STEMpath for teachers

A nationwide shortage of K-12 computer-science teachers helped inspire the new graduate-level certificate at Metropolitan State University of Denver intended…

Majoring in saving the planet

Melissa Payan has known she wanted to save the planet since grade school. Now an EPA employee and 2006 MSU…

Degree before diploma

When Alex Jones was about 3 years old, he was multiplying numbers. So it’s not completely surprising that at age…

Launched at Lockheed Martin

Joshua Harris had lost his sense of gravity. It was 2015, and the North Dakota native was working at a…

From tractors to satellites

He started out working the land and moved to the mountains for manufacturing. His hands-on career really took off when…

Solving big problems with small solutions

Jonathan Spencer Martinez wants to make a big difference by working on a very small scale. The third-year student at…

Opportunity knocks loudly for grads

With a tight job market and wages on the rise, this spring’s graduates can hit the ground running in their…

The Unlikely CIO

Jim Qualteri is an expert at neutralizing threats. That was true when he operated tanks in the Army, when he…

Women in STEM

The conversation about women in STEM is changing. Reducing the gap between women and men working in science, technology, engineering…

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