In the News, January 2013

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has announced that Allen L. Robinson, Ph.D. (CA G ’90), will rejoin the college as head of the mechanical engineering department. Currently, Dr. Robinson is a professor of engineering at Colorado State University. He previously spent 14 years on the CMU faculty. Click here to read the article from the Pittsburgh Business Times

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Mark J. Mason, MI K ’90, was recently appointed to the Holland Community Board of Directors (MI). Mason is president of Stone Plastics and Manufacturing. He earned his engineering degree from Western Michigan University and was previously an industrial engineer at Batts, Inc. Read the news announcement

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The application deadline to join Teach For America, the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates and professionals—of all majors, backgrounds, and career interests—who commit to teach for two years in urban and rural low-income communities and become lifelong leaders in expanding educational opportunity, is January 11. APPLY NOW to the 2013 Teach For America corps.

You are also invited to join the Crisis in STEM Education Panel webinar to take place Thursday, January 17, at 8pm (EST). The free event will be a conversation about the achievement gap in STEM education and solutions to consider. Register now

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