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Congratulations to Rita Munarwi, This Quarter’s SWE Advance Power User!

By |2025-07-15T12:41:00-04:00July 15th, 2025|Categories: Uncategorized|

SWE is excited to announce Rita Munarwi as this quarter’s Advance Power User! We asked Munarwi some questions regarding her dedication to lifelong learning and how she uses the Advance Learning Center to achieve her goals. Source

Gender Reservation in Indian Engineering Education: Policies, Progress, and Perspectives

By |2025-07-14T13:42:00-04:00July 14th, 2025|Categories: Uncategorized|

Swastika Chatterjee-Das shares data and reflections on how gender-based quotas are shaping engineering education and industry outcomes in India. Source

Planetary Nebula Mz3: The Ant Nebula

By |2025-07-13T13:44:31-04:00July 13th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Why isn't this ant a big sphere? Planetary nebula Mz3 is being cast off by a star similar to our Sun that is, surely, round. Why then would the gas that is streaming away create an ant-shaped nebula that is distinctly not round? Clues might include the high 1000-kilometer per [...]

Clouds and the Golden Moon

By |2025-07-12T13:44:25-04:00July 12th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day As the Sun set, a bright Full Moon rose on July 10. Its golden light illuminates clouds drifting through southern hemisphere skies in this well-composed telephoto image from Conceição do Coité, Bahia, Brazil. The brightest lunar phase is captured here with both a short and long exposure. The two exposures [...]

The Pleiades in Red and Blue

By |2025-07-08T12:44:45-04:00July 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , |

Photo of the Day If you have looked at the sky and seen a group of stars about the size of the full Moon, that's the Pleiades (M45). Perhaps the most famous star cluster in the sky, its brightest stars can be seen even from the light-polluted cities. But your unaided eye can also [...]

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