How CAST Schools are preparing young women for careers in STEM By Joshua Collins, Communications Coordinator, CAST Schools Over the summer, Ashley Mendez, a high school student at CAST STEM, traveled to Rice University to participate in the Carbon Dioxide (CO2) STEM...
Patty Garcia started her career as a lineworker for CPS Energy in 1988, when it was still known as City Public Service. She worked to help manually install the underground steel gas pipes and conduits that bring electricity and natural gas into people’s homes.
Dr. Olga Gonzalez is one of the few people who knew as a child the career she wanted to pursue – and actually did it.
“I didn’t have a Plan B or C,” says Dr. Gonzalez, a professor of veterinary pathology at Texas Biomedical Research Institute and the Southwest National Primate Research Center. “Plan A was to go to veterinary school.”
Step Into STEM is a unique career awareness program that inspires middle school students to choose an education focused on science, technology, engineering, or mathematics to prepare for future STEM careers. A STEM education is an empowering interdisciplinary approach that generates lifelong career opportunities.
Brenna Halverson: UTSA Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences By Antonio Gutierrez When Brenna Halverson tells people she works in volcanology, she often gets a puzzled look followed by the remark, "Oh, you study Star Trek for a living?" Halverson will then...
STEM : Texas Biomedical Research Akudo Anyanwu Akudo Anyanwu, MD, MPH Vice President, Development Texas Biomedical Research Institute Dr. Akudo Anyanwu has long had a passion for global health. Born in Philadelphia to Nigerian parents, she was introduced early to...
Verónica Contreras-Shannon, Ph.D. Professor of Biological Sciences and MARC U*STAR Program Director St. Mary's University One Camino Santa Maria San Antonio, TX 78228 210-431-4324 1. What path led you to where you are in your career/education today? As an...
UTSA Environmental Science and Engineering Student Finds the Earth and Ocean to be the Ideal Research Laboratory By Antonio Gutierrez As a child, Karen Mendiondo found great fascination in the rocks and minerals she found and tucked in her pocket while hiking the...
How can San Antonio build the STEM workforce it desperately needs? By Brooke Crum and Lindsey Carnett - San Antonio Report Photos by Bria Woods - San Antonio Report Three years ago, San Antonio ninth-grader Audrie Torres would not have been able to attend a medical...
Tara Lujan, Co-founder, HydroTek By Oliva Evans "Being a goalkeeper, things get chaotic. I tend to always focus back to the core on simple things I can control and do right," says Tara Lujan as she reflects on her time playing soccer. A former collegiate and...
Vivian Bouet Chief Information Officer, CPS Energy Vivian Bouet has lived in many places across the globe, from Europe to Africa and the United States. San Antonio is now her family's home, and she loves it. In 2018, Vivian became Chief Information Officer at...
