GoldShirt
Graduating senior Katelynn Thammavong (ChemBioEngr '22) has been recognized with a Community Impact award for her work to connect and empower Asian-heritage STEM students and disrupt anti-Asian racism during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Leah Rivera (EnvEngr’'21) is the rare recipient of two awards bestowed by the College of Engineering and Applied Science: the Community Impact Award and the Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (JEDI) Award.Â
Through the Engineering GoldShirt Program, 374 students have gained access to engineering. With the opportunity to present at NAE, facilitators hope to shift the discussion around diversity in engineering.Â
Housed within the BOLD Center, the Engineering GoldShirt program is designed to provide a performance-enhancing year for students who would otherwise be underprepared for engineering study.GoldShirt prepares students for success in a traditional
In college athletics, players are often redshirted. They are enrolled but not competing, and that gives them more time to prepare. Tanya Ennis, director of the Engineering GoldShirt Program, says like redshirting, the GoldShirt-ed engineering
Today at noon, we’ll be doing a Google+ hangout to talk more about the Washington State Academic Red Shirt program, or STARS, which is helping to boost the number of women and minority students studying engineering at the University of
SEATTLE (AP) - When she got the letter in summer 2013, Courtney Seto thought it sounded too good to be true.A free program that offered automatic acceptance into the University of Washington’s engineering school? Did everyone get this letter?Seto
On Tuesday, the Education Lab team hosted a Google+ Hangout about diversity in STEM and what some universities are doing to help more people of color and first-generation students earn degrees in fields like computer science and
The University of Colorado Boulder’s Engineering GoldShirt Program continued in its goal of becoming a model for other universities, recently hosting three representatives from Texas A&M who are interested in developing a similar
Following the success of academic “redshirting” -- derived from an athletic term for delaying participation to improve readiness -- at the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder, other universities are