While may be one of the newest Living Learning Communities on campus, it is providing incoming students with many unique opportunities. Students are not only able to live on campus and take courses with like-minded peers, but STEMCats also allows incoming freshmen students to participate in research and connect with peers, upperclassmen, and professors. In this podcast, we talk with several Undergraduate Instructional Assistants, or UIA鈥檚, who have been building connections with STEMCats freshmen through sharing their experiences.

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Howard Hughes Medical Institute funds five-year project to promote student achievement in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, in collaboration with BCTC

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Eight exceptional students in the College of Arts & Sciences haven been selected for the prestigious Gaines Fellowship Program.

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The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is a nonprofit organization of geophysicists with over 62,000 members from 144 countries. At their most recent meeting last December, 24,000 people presented and discussed the newest interdisciplinary and international research in geophysics, which makes Liz Pillar鈥檚 accomplishments all the more impressive.

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In 2009, the Virtual Observatory And Ecological Informatics System (VOEIS) project was launched. Funded by an NSF EPSCoR grant, VOEIS united researchers at five universities in Kentucky and two universities in Montana to research the consequences of environmental changes in freshwater ecosystems.

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Thinking about a major in chemistry? Come meet current students and faculty. You will hear a brief presentation which will introduce you to the department, give you an overview of the chemistry program, inform you of research opportunites and potential careers, and more.

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