You might have thought that the medical establishment would make a stand for science.
"We came from an earthworm?" said Donald Ely, a pastor, to a man who made a lonely stand for science.
That was another reason he exasperated his colleagues, that and the fact that he came to stand for science itself in the minds of many lay readers.
Inclusive STEM (traditionally known to stand for "Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math") high schools are emerging across the country as a mechanism for improving STEM education and getting more and diverse students into STEM majors and careers.
When my book The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason came out in 2009, I took a lot of flak from old-time atheists who resented that all the work they had done promoting atheism, secularism, and humanism was not fully recognized.
Sports is popular but doesn't sell as well as anything that has to do with STEM, which stands for science, technology, engineering and math.
In 2010, just 18.2 percent of undergraduates in the field were women, according to the National Center for Education Statistics — in spite of gains in chemistry, biomechanical engineering and other so-called STEM fields (the acronym stands for science, technology, engineering and mathematics).
The Obama administration's Race to the Top competition, which will distribute $4.35 billion in education stimulus money to states, favors so-called STEM programs, which stands for science, technology, engineering and math.
New York Public Library Youth STEM Fair (Saturday) STEM stands for science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and those fields will be the stars of this exposition for ages 10 through 18. Young people interested in careers in these areas can learn about them through presentations and hands-on activities led by after-school programs, summer camps and other organizations.
"STEM, of course, stands for science, technology, engineering, and—".
The 11-page report, "Women in STEM: A Gender Gap to Innovation," is the first analysis of women working in technical fields (STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) by the Commerce Department's Economics and Statistics Administration ESAA).
