by Naval STEM | May 4, 2023 | Naval STEM News
Looking out at the audience of more than 200 high school students, Dr. Bindu Nair exhorted them to sustain their passion and curiosity for all things STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) — and to continue to ask questions, no matter how strange. READ...
by Naval STEM | Apr 15, 2023 | News From The Field
On Saturday, April 15, 2023, the U.S. Naval Academy STEM Center for Education and Outreach held its inaugural Flight Day. Sixty students from across the country investigated the principles of flight by exploring rockets, gliders, and rotorcraft. Three USNA faculty...
by Naval STEM | Apr 14, 2023 | Naval STEM News
The Department of the Navy’s (DoN) Naval STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) program has gone live with the newest iteration of its Naval Horizons student essay contest for high school and college students. Naval Horizons is a STEM educational video...
by Naval STEM | Apr 13, 2023 | Naval STEM News
Looking back on his experiences in medical school, and while serving as a practicing specialist in orthopedic medicine, Lt. Cmdr. Marvin Dingle — an orthopedic surgeon at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland — recalled how he didn’t encounter many...
by Naval STEM | Feb 17, 2023 | Alumni
The helo dunker Dr. Vento escaped from was similar to this one used by the U.S. Marines. Dr. Kaila Vento climbed into the helo dunker, buckled in, and got ready to get drenched. This was the researcher’s world now even if her PhD hadn’t prepared her for the experience...
by Naval STEM | Jan 10, 2023 | Naval STEM News
ARLINGTON, Va.—The results are in for the recent Naval Horizons student essay contest. The contest organizer, the Department of the Navy’s (DoN) Naval STEM Coordination Office (NSCO), which is located at the Office of Naval Research, is excited about the growth...
by Naval STEM | Oct 24, 2022 | Alumni
Kim Roche was an undergrad with plans for medical school when she decided to take a different turn. Completely in love with humanities, she started to look for career options that would combine chemistry and sciences with art history. And that’s when one of her...
by Naval STEM | Oct 24, 2022 | Alumni
Ben Harvey, a Senior Research Chemist at Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division China Lake (NAWCWD) was moderately surprised when Bryan Goldsmith made an unexpected call. Dr. Goldsmith, Dow Corning Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of...
by Naval STEM | Sep 1, 2022 | Naval STEM News
ARLINGTON, Va.— During the closing presentation of a week-long conference focused on America’s best and brightest Ph.D. students, whose research is focused on U.S. national security, Dr. Bindu Nair — director of Basic Research for the Office of the Secretary of...
by Naval STEM | Aug 10, 2022 | Naval STEM News
ARLINGTON, Va. — This past week, the 25th Annual RoboSub competition occurred at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland. RoboSub is an international robotics competition where student teams design, build, test and operate their own robotic submarines —...
