Boyle Heights has a fascinating history, once home to Jewish families and now the bedrock of the Latino immigrant community. [Read more]
Univision Health Fair
Hundreds of families, locals, and other health-interested people gathered at East Los Angeles College (ELAC) on a sunny, Saturday afternoon in hopes of receiving free health information and learning how biotech is quickly creating new job opportunities. [Read more]
The Next Generation of Engineering’s Achievers
Spending summer inside an engineering lab is not an exciting plan for most high school students, but it is the choice of 26 students who started on Monday in the 2017 cohort of the Summer High School Intensive in Next-Generation Engineering (SHINE). [Read more]
USC Professor Luhar Partners with STEM Academy of Hollywood
Until the 1990s, the aerospace industry in Los Angeles dominated the local economy and fueled national prosperity; since Pentagon budgets were cut, however, the region’s aerospace workforce has fallen by 66%. [Read more]
USC Viterbi Professors Partner with K-12 Schools Throughout the Southland
Instagram helps students communicate their understanding of nanoparticles when USC Viterbi School of Engineering Professor Eun Ji Chung comes to 32nd Street LAUSD/USC Media Arts & Engineering Magnet School. [Read more]
STEM-EOP Profile of Success
Ivtiy Hong joined MESA during her junior year of high school. Before competing in MESA competitions, she, like many other high school students, did not know what engineering was, but loved math and science, especially physics. [Read more]