Collections project seeks to highlight and develop BIPOC STEM resources

For those who don’t celebrate it annually, National STEM Day was November 8. The day is meant to inspire the exploration of and promote education through science, technology, engineering, and math. Unfortunately, it’s also a good time to recognize something less joyous: Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities are sorely underrepresented in STEM fields.

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Imagining Alexander the Great

Lately I’ve been fascinated by Alexander the Great. Or should I say, adaptations and appropriations of Alexander, which are still on-going. In the past year I’ve encountered Alexander in unexpected places. I’ve watched him streaming on Netflix as the enormous, red-haired, oxen-driving hero Iskandar, resurrected to fight for the Holy Grail in the Fate/Zero anime.

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Neilly Author Series: Erin Gruwell

Here’s a twist on an old proverb: “You can put a student in a classroom, but you can’t make them learn.” In the early 1990s, this was more or less how most educators felt about a particular class in Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, California. The fault in their logic was it presupposed they were unteachable. Erin Gruwell, a 23-year-old first-year teacher, proved them wrong.

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Shall we play a game?

Netflix’s Stranger Things is undoubtedly responsible for introducing the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) to a substantial number of viewers. And it’s entirely possible that this story is now doing the same for several readers.

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