The GazetteXtra – Ann Belser
“When Clinique Brundidge was growing up, she didn’t need to be introduced to the fields of engineering and math. She was born into them. Brundidge’s father was an engineer at the General Motors Institute, so she grew up visiting the GM plant in Detroit. At the University of Michigan, she studied materials science for her bachelor’s degree and later earned a doctorate in the same field. These days there’s an increased focus on getting more students comfortable in the so-called STEM fields—the acronym stands for science, technology, engineering and math. Research has shown that students in the U.S. are falling behind their peers in those subjects at the same time that there are job opportunities in those fields.”(more)