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…
Tag: STEM
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…
Budding designers grow skills at Denver Botanic Gardens
Denver Botanic Gardens needed a new weather station. The current incarnation was functional, but not in an ideal location to…
Reboot camp: cybersecurity education for vets
Technology is cool. You can turn 44 beer cans into a keyboard with an Arduino board and Raspberry Pi. And it’s great…